Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Integration of Early Years Learning into Primary Level: Discussion
11:00 am
Ms Arlene Forster:
We are very happy to come back to the committee. I want to state for the record that parents are a key education partner in the development of curriculum within the NCCA. That takes place in a number of ways. Parents are on our structures, there are parent nominees on our council and I mentioned the boards and development groups. We engage with parents through consultation. I do not have time to go through it today but even in the case of the draft primary curriculum specifications, we have a long list of engagements and strategies that we use to try to build awareness of the consultation and encourage people, including parents, into that consultation. We are very happy to share that information with the committee and we will share the figures as well. We just do not have them to hand, as Dr. Sullivan said.