Jen Cummins (Dublin South Central, Social Democrats)
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172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if patronage will feature as part of the national convention on education. [55967/25]

Jen Cummins (Dublin South Central, Social Democrats)
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173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the terms of reference for the national convention on education will be published. [55968/25]

Jen Cummins (Dublin South Central, Social Democrats)
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175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if reconfiguration will be part of the national convention on education. [55970/25]

Jen Cummins (Dublin South Central, Social Democrats)
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176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a list of people and organisations that will be invited to the national convention on education. [55971/25]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 172, 173, 175 and 176 together.

Planning for the National Convention on Education is ongoing.

I am committed to ensuring that this Convention will reflect the Ireland of today, in all its diversity, and in particular the voices of children and young people, their parents and guardians, and education stakeholders. With this in mind, the Convention will launch the first ever National Conversation on education with school communities and national stakeholders.

The National conversation will inform what changes may be needed to the education landscape to help ensure responsiveness of the system to children and young people’s needs over the years and decades to come, to reflect on how best to provide for what is working well and to examine what needs to be changed.

Our goal with the Convention is to develop an ambitious vision and programme of work for education that will deliver both over the coming years and in the medium-term future as well. The findings from the National Conversation will shape the agenda for the Convention, which in turn will be agreed by Government.