Minister announces establishment of a Forum on Patronage [npc.ie]
- Published: 04 April 2011
The Minister for Education and Skills, Mr. Ruairi Quinn TD, announced on the 28th of March 2011 the establishment of a Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector.
Announcing the establishment of the Forum, Minister Quinn said "it will take a multi-dimensional approach involving consultations with the key education stakeholders, including parents".
The Minister indicated that a formal launch of the Forum will take place before Easter.
The terms of reference of the Forum are to advise the Minister on:
1. how it can best be ensured that the education system can provide a sufficiently diverse number and range of primary schools catering for all religions and none;
2. the practicalities of how transfer/divesting of patronage should operate for individual primary schools in communities where it is appropriate and necessary;
3. how such transfer/divesting can be advanced to ensure that demands for diversity of patronage (including from an Irish language perspective) can be identified and met on a widespread basis nationally.
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