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A candidate for Fine Gael. View party
ELECTED
Emer Higgins
Party
Constituency
Occupation
TD
Age
38
Biography

Emer Higgins has been a Fine Gael TD for Dublin Mid-West since 2020, and is the Minister of State for Business, Employment & Retail. A South Dublin County councillor between 2011 and 2020, she was also a member of UCD's governing authority from 2018 to 2023. She previously worked as an assistant to Irish MEP Francis Fitzgerald.

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