Appointments to the Dental Council Board:

The Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD has appointed/reappointed the following persons as members to the Dental Council Board.

Ms Ursula Byrne

Ursula is a registered general nurse, a registered midwife and a registered midwife tutor. She has extensive experience in nursing and midwifery clinical practice, education and management in Ireland, Canada and Australia. She has worked at a senior level in nursing and midwifery regulation in Ireland for twenty years, particularly in fitness to practise, registration, education and professional guidance and standards.

Ursula has also been involved in collaborative working with midwifery regulators within the EU and internationally. She was a member of the Policy Working Committee of the Network of European Midwifery Regulators (NEMIR) and European Representative on the Regulation Standing Committee of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM).

Ms Mary Faulkner

Mary has had an extensive career in third level education and legal professional education and training, in both the public and the private sectors, over a period of 30 years. Mary held the position of Dean of the School of Law at the Honorable Society of King’s Inns and previously served as Head of the Department of International Business, and as a Lecturer in Law at Dublin Institute of Technology (now Technological University Dublin).

Mary brings her experience as a trained employment disciplinary issues investigator while at DIT and also experience in health and safety matters at institute committee level. Mary has many years’ experience of research in employment law leading to publication in the area. Mary is a member of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal. A graduate of UCD, King’s Inns and DIT, Mary’s academic background is in law, humanities, education and arbitration.