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Appointment to the Speech and Language Therapists Registration Board - 27 April 2023
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On the nomination of the Minister for Education, the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has appointed Professor Muiris Ó Laoire as a member of the Speech and Language Therapists Registration Board with effect from 29 March 2023 until 28 March 2027.
Through his international work as a researcher and visiting/guest lecturer, Professor Ó Laoire has vast experience in working with agencies outside the state and is very familiar with different education systems and qualifications. Given his experience as an external examiner of doctoral dissertations in many educational universities in Ireland and abroad, he is very familiar with international standards and benchmarks of proficiency and quality assurance. He works with the Head of Department in the MTU on a Research Ethics Group to evaluate research proposals at undergraduate level and is Chair of the ECEC course board.