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Two days after polling day in the 2019 local elections, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that news of the compensation claim in the week preceding the elections had caused reputational damage to Fine Gael. On 27 May, Bailey gave an interview described by some Fine Gael colleagues as "a car crash" and "the worst political interview I’ve ever heard", on the Today with Seán O'Rourke RTÉ radio programme. In the interview, she said that the media had "crossed the line of public invasion and humanity." Health minister Simon Harris said of the interview "I think it was an unfortunate interview. I think when you withdraw a claim I think it is in and of itself an acknowledgement of the fact that perhaps that claim shouldn’t have proceeded, yet the interview seems to be very much in the space of blaming lots of other people." On 29 May, Fine Gael announced it was going to undertake "an internal review to establish all facts." In July 2019, Leo Varadkar announced that as a result of the review, Bailey was being removed as chair of the Oireachtas Housing Committee.

In October 2019, a vote of no-confidence was put forward from her own constituency members but was deferred until a later date, while elected colleagues removed her image from their social media platforms. In November 2019, the Fine Gael National Executive voted to deselect her as a candidate in the next general election.

A lawsuit by Bailey against the Dean Hotel for alleged injuries, following a fall from an indoor swing in July 2015, attracted controversy and criticism in the media and in the Oireachtas in May 2019. The controversy became known as "swing-gate".

Bailey is the daughter of former Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Councillor John Bailey. She was a member of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council from 2004 to 2016,

Maria Bailey (born 21 November 1975) is a former Irish Fine Gael politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dún Laoghaire constituency from 2016 to 2020. She served as Chair of the Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government 2016 to 2019. Her career in Dáil Éireann ended after a personal injury controversy known as "swing-gate", which led to her de-selection by Fine Gael as a candidate in the 2020 general election.