Máire Hoctor (born 20 January 1963) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician.
[1] She was educated at St. Mary's secondary school, Nenagh and St Patrick's College, Maynooth.
Before her election she worked as a secondary school teacher in St. Joseph's CBS, Nenagh.
Hoctor was a member of various Oireachtas Committees at different stages in the 2002–07 Fianna Fáil–Progressive Democrats government.
In 2007, legislation was passed to increase the number of Ministers of State from 17 to 20, and in July 2007 Hoctor was nominated by Bertie Ahern to be appointed by the government as Minister of State at the Department of Social and Family Affairs, at the Department of Health and Children, and at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, with special responsibility for Older People.