<a href="/web/2010-conference">2010 Conference</a> &gt;&gt; <strong>Session 1</strong>|<a href="http://iclrd.org/2010-conference/session-2/  ">Session 2</a>|<a href="http://iclrd.org/2010-conference/session-3/">Session 3</a>|<a href="http://iclrd.org/2010-conference/session-4-recovery-through-collaborative-spatial-planning/">Session 4</a>
<strong>Thursday 21 January 2010</strong>
<strong>2:15 Opening Address
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<a href="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Pat-Colgan-1.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>Planning for Recovery the EU Dimension  (PDF)</strong></a> <a href="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/pat-colgan-1.mp3" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1248" title="audio" src="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Icon_External_Link_MP3-1.png" alt="audio" width="13" height="12" /></a>
Pat Colgan, Chief Executive, Special EU Programmes Body  <em> </em>
<strong>Session 1: Health Check on Economic Development, Planning and Infrastructure</strong>
The presentations set the current context for the work of the conference in identifying the planning responses critical to positioning for economic recovery and long-term
sustainable growth.
<strong>2.30 Welcome by Chair <a href="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/aidan-gough-1.mp3" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1248" title="audio" src="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Icon_External_Link_MP3-1.png" alt="audio" width="13" height="12" /></a>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Aidan Gough, Strategy and Policy Director, Inter<em>Trade</em>Ireland</p>
<strong>2.40 <a title="abstract" href="/web/2010-conference/abstracts/#FitzGerald" target="_self">Strategies to Create the Right Jobs in the Right Places (Abstract)</a> (<a href="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/John-Fitz-Gerald1-1.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a>) <a href="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/john-fitz-gerald-1.mp3" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1248" title="audio" src="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Icon_External_Link_MP3-1.png" alt="audio" width="13" height="12" /></a><a title="abstract" href="/web/2010-conference/abstracts/#FitzGerald" target="_self">
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Professor John Fitz Gerald, Research Professor,
Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)</p>
<strong>3.00 <a href="/web/2010-conference/abstracts/#McArdle">Property Supply and Demand in Balance: Challenges for Local Government, the Development Sector and NAMA (Abstract)</a> <a href="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Pat-McArdle-1.pdf" target="_blank">(PDF)</a> <a title="audio" href="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/pat-mcardle-1.mp3" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1248" title="Icon_External_Link_MP3" src="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Icon_External_Link_MP3-1.png" alt="Icon_External_Link_MP3" width="13" height="12" /></a><a href="/web/2010-conference/abstracts/#McArdle">
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Pat McArdle, Economist</p>
<strong>3.20 <a href="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Conor-Skehan-1.pdf" target="_blank">Green Infrastructure: Myth and Reality - Demand, Delivery and Delay   (PDF)</a> <a href="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/conor-skehan-1.mp3" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1248" title="audio" src="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Icon_External_Link_MP3-1.png" alt="audio" width="13" height="12" /></a>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Conor Skehan, Head of the Environment and Planning Department,
School of Spatial Planning, Dublin Institute of Technology</p>
<strong>3.40 Panel Discussion / Q&amp;A  <a href="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Session-1-QA-1.mp3" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1248" title="audio" src="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Icon_External_Link_MP3-1.png" alt="audio" width="13" height="12" /></a>
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<strong>4.00 Refreshments</strong>
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<h3>Online Follow-up Discussion</h3>
Questions:
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	<li>Should spatial planning focus on city regions in an all-island context?</li>
	<li>What are the major risks to recovery?</li>
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