The Wexford at the Hub conference was held on Friday February 17th 2006 in the Talbot Hotel Wexford. It was held in association with Wexford Borough Council and Wexford Chamber of Commerce.

• Agenda

• Bibliography

Presentations

Agenda

• 09.30am Tea & Coffee

• 10.00am Councillor Tommy Carr, Mayor of Wexford

• 10.05am Minister John Browne, TD

• 10.25am Eddie Breen, Wexford County Manager

• 10.40am Niall Cussen, Department of Environment, Heritage & Local Government

• 11.00am Theatre Royal - Ciaran McGahon, Office of Public Works

• 11.30am Tea & Coffee

• 11.45am Public Amenity - Matt O’ Connor, National Building Agency

• Municipal buildings
• Swimming Pools
• County Hall
• Carcur Park

• 12.20pm Infrastructure - Enet - Ronan O’ Flynn

• 12.50pm Lunch

Commerical Sector:

• 2.00pm Tesco - Michael O’ Sullivan & Ian Doyle

• 2.30pm Whites - Neville Conroy Architects

• 3.00pm Trinity Wharf - Derry Mc Philips

• 3.30pm Closing speech

• 4.00pm Close and Reception in bar

Bibliography

Niall Cussen is a Senior Planning Adviser with the Spatial Planning Section and Heritage and Planning Division of the Department of the Environment Heritage and Local Government. Since January 2000, Mr Cussen has been a key member of the team that prepared the National Spatial Strategy. Since the Governments adoption and launch of the strategy in November 2002, Mr Cussen has been closely involved in its implementation through interactions with Government Departments and Agencies as well as Regional and Local Authorities.

Ciarán McGahon is a Senior Architect with the Office of Public Works and is design team leader for the new Theatre Royal project. His other main responsibility in the OPW is to advise on the architectural / construction aspects of major state investments in the sports and cultural sector such as Lansdowne Road Stadium, Sports Campus Ireland, the National Conference Centre and National (Abbey) Theatre.

Matt O'Connor is a native of Wexford Town and has been Managing Director of the National Building Agency since 1993. He is an Architect by profession working in London and Kansas City for a period of ten years returning to Ireland to take up the position of Senior Architect with Dublin County Council before becoming Chief Technical Officer of the National Building Agency.

e-net is a wholly owned Irish Company based in Limerick and was established by Michael Tiernan in 2000 to address the issue of the lack of broadband in the Regions. e-net provides cost effective telecommunications products and services to licensed operators on a wholesale basis. e-net manages the 27 Phase I networks, which are as follows: Athlone, Ballina, Carlow, Carrick-on-Shannon, Cavan, Clonmel, Cork City, Dungarvan, Galway City, Gweedore, Kingscourt, Kilkenny, Kiltimagh, Letterkenny, Limerick City, Manorhamilton, Mullingar, Portlaoise, Roscommon, Sligo, Tullamore, Waterford City, Wexford, Dundalk, Drogheda, Monaghan and Carrickmacross.

Michael Sullivan, Development Support Manager, Tesco Ireland, has worked in the business since 1981 and joined the property team in 2000.

Ian Doyle, Planning Executive, Tesco Ireland, has recently joined the business, previous employment includes the National Building Agency Ltd and Wexford County Council.

Neville Conroy Principal Conroy Architects Ltd. BA (Hons), Post Graduate, Diploma Arch. & Urban Design University Of South Bank, London. Member of RIBA and RIAI. Previously worked London with Bureau For Architecture & Urban Design; Spreebogen Berlin Masterplanning, Smithfield Dublin Masterplanning: BSP London for Hotel and Leisure groups Forte, Thistle and Copthorne. Established Conroy Architects 1995 projects include Retail, Residential, Hotel/ Leisure, Medical, Education and Religious.

Derry Mc Philips is the director of Deerland Properties. He has extensive experience in large scale property development including the development of Trinity Wharf in Wexford Town. Other projects include Harbour Place, Mullingar; City Square, Waterford; Hebron Retail Park, Kilkenny and the Ferrybank Shopping Centre, Waterford.