Bailey was first elected as a councillor in the 2019 local elections. She was the Social Democrats national coordination for the campaign to repeal the Eighth Amendment in 2018. She has a degree in law and political science. She has campaigned on the housing crisis, children's disability services and funding for IVF. She lives in Greenhills.

I have both the personal experience of poor policy and the professional knowledge to know how to improve it. Politics happened to me and it happens to so many others. We need a voice in the Dáil who knows exactly what it is like to live in the real world.

My priority has to be providing affordable housing to people to buy or rent.

I would introduce a nationwide rent freeze and roll out our programme to build 100,000 homes over five years on public land.