Maria Corrigan is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a

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from 2007 to 2011, after being

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. She was a member

Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council ( ga, Comhairle Contae Dhún Laoghaire–Ráth an Dúin) is the authority responsible for local government in the county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. It is one of three local authorities that s ...

for the

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local electoral area from 1999 to 2007. She was an unsuccessful candidate at the

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and

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general elections for the Dublin South constituency and was also unsuccessful at the Seanad election for the Administrative Panel in 2007. She was

, Bertie Ahern to Seanad Éireann in August 2007. Corrigan was the Fianna Fáil Seanad spokesperson for Disability, Mental Health, Environment and Energy. She was a member of the Houses of the Oireachtas Joint Committee for Communications, Joint Committee for the Constitutional Referendum for the Rights of the Child. She is a member of the Psychological Society of Ireland, Combat Poverty Agency, the National Advisory Committee for Drugs (NCAD) and the National Economic and Social Forum.

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