| Time |
Type of Session |
Focus & Speakers |
| 09.15 – 09.45 |
Registration & Refreshments |
- 09.50 Welcome Address: Peter Sheridan, Chief Executive, Co-operation Ireland
- 10.00 Session 1 Chair: Ian Maye, Deputy Secretary – Planning and Local Government, Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland
|
| 10.10 – 11.10 |
Issues Shaping Planning |
What is shaping planning processes in both jurisdictions? What are the current needs?
- Ross Martin, Policy Director, Centre for Scottish Public Policy
- David McCammick, Chief Executive, Antrim Borough Council & Northern Ireland Planning Working Group under RPA
- Councillor Joe Leonard, Sligo County Council
|
| 11.10 – 11.30 |
Questions & Answers |
| 11.50 Session 2 Chair: Dr. Patricia O’Hara, Chair, National Statistics Board |
| 12.00 – 13.00 |
The Practitioner’s Toolkit |
The role of strategies and tools for evidence-based spatial planning
- Liam Conneally, Director, Mid-West Regional Authority
- Alderman Jim Dillon MBE, Chair, NILGA Planning Group
- Justin Gleeson, Manager, All Island Research Observatory, NUI Maynooth
|
| 13.00 – 13.15 |
Question and Answers |
| Lunch: 13.15 – 14.15 |
| Parallel Sessions |
| 14.15 – 15.30 |
Sharing Experiences and Capacity Building |
Parallel Sessions:
- Community Engagement in Planning
- Speaker: Liam Flanigan, Chief Executive, Limavady Borough Council
- Facilitator: Maria Ferguson, Strategic Policy Manager, Donegal County Council
- Infrastructure/Development Alignment
- Speaker: Hubert Kearns, County Manager, Sligo County Council
- Facilitator: Karen Smyth, Head of Policy, NILGA
- Renewable Energy Development
- Speaker: Dr. Ainhoa González, Researcher, National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), NUI Maynooth
- Facilitator: Michael Doran, Director, Action Renewables
- Capacity Building for Local Government
- Speaker: Beverley Cowan, Planning Policy Division, Department of Environment, Northern Ireland
- Facilitator: Ciarán Cuffe, Planner & Lecturer, Dublin Institute of Technology (and Former Government Minister
- Indicators and the Evidence-Base
- Speaker: Gavin Daly, ESPON Contact Point – Ireland
- Facilitator: Pádraig Maguire, Regional Planner, Border Regional Authority
|
| Tea/Coffee break: 15.30 – 15.45 |
|
Closing Session: Chaired by Anne Anderson Porter, Director of Operations, Co-operation Ireland
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15.45 – 16.15
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Parallel Session Outcomes
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Feedback from session facilitator at each roundtable |
| 16.15 – 16.30 |
Next Steps
|
Action Plan: John Driscoll, Director, ICLRD |
| 16.30 |
Conference Close |
ONE-DAY CONFERENCE