CINOR brings together the municipalities of Saint-Denis, Sainte-Marie and Sainte-Suzanne, representing more than 190,000 inhabitants, constituting the largest urban community in Réunion and Overseas.

In February 2014, Bareigts presented a resolution relating to Reunionese children placed in metropolitan France in the years 1960-1970, which was voted in the National Assembly.

[7] In September 2015, Bareigts was applauded in the National Assembly for her response to the words of Nadine Morano who had described France as a “white race country”.

[2] On 12 September 2018, following the appointment of François de Rugy to the government, Bareigts was the Socialist group's candidate for the President of the National Assembly and collected 31 votes.

[10] On 3 March 2018, during a visit to the Cimendef media library in Saint-Paul, recently bought by the Réunion region, Bareigts and Huguette Bello were refused access to part of the building.

On 1 June 2018 Bareigts succeeds in bringing the government back to public session, which wanted to derogate Overseas and Corsica from the application of the 1986 coastal law (law on the development, protection and enhancement of the coastline), by allowing the construction of public or private collective facilities nearby ocean or beaches.

[12] Bareigts served as Secretary of Real Equality under Prime Minister Manuel Valls from February 2016[3] to 20 March 2016.

[13] Bareigts was appointed Minister of Overseas France on 30 August 2016 and replaced in the National Assembly by her substitute, Phillipe Naillet.