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DUBLIN AGENCIES’ SEMINAR (2/3 DECEMBER 2004)
Venue: IPA HQ, Lansdowne Road, Dublin, 4.
Programme
Thursday (2 December 2004)
09.30-11.00 COBRA Planning Meeting, including:
· Update on progress from each partner
· Degree of communality, including existing & future surveys
· COBRA structure & website
· Strategies for collaboration/publication
· Future partners
For this session, a discussion to be prepared by Leuven/GP will be circulated
in advance to partners.
11.00-11.15 Coffee/minerals
11.15-13.00 COBRA Planning Meeting continues.
13.00 Arrival of other invited participants, welcome and buffet lunch
14.00-15.30 Presentations by the Belgian, Norwegian and Irish teams
on progress/results to date. For this session it is also proposed to
invite members of the Committee for Public Management Research (CPMR)
to participate, as well as a small number of Chief Officers of public
bodies, Irish academics/researchers and IPA colleagues with a particular
interest in this topic. The CPMR is responsible for supporting the Irish
part of our cross-national initiative and includes senior-level civil
servants from eight Government/departments/offices.
15.30-15.45 Coffee/minerals
15.45-16.45 Interim discussion of issues arising and exploration of
common themes/differences.
16.45-17.00 Summing up, any other business and practical arrangements
for dinner etc.
19.30 Dinner at a local restaurant
Friday (3 December 2004)
09.00-09.15 Arrival
09.15-10.30 Presentation by COBRA partners on our vision and proposals
for future collaboration (including common surveys approaches, web-site,
publications etc.), followed by discussion with invited participants.
10.30-10.45 Coffee/minerals
10.45-12.30 Short presentations (based upon previously circulated notes)
by invited researchers on:
· Existing research on autonomous public organisations in their
countries.
· Their own research on this topic and
· Specific features of their country with respect to governmental
organisation and the status/prevalence of autonomous public organisations.
In making their presentations, the researchers will also be invited
to reflect upon the applicability/feasibility of the partners’
vision and proposals as they relate to their own country.
12.30-14.00 Lunch and break
14.00-15.30 Presentations and discussions will continue
15.30-15.45 Coffee/minerals
15.45-16.30 Concluding session, including remaining issues and future
steps.
19.45 Dinner at a local restaurant
Participants Dublin
Agencies Seminar (2-3 December 2004)
Ian Thynne
Sandra van Thiel
Jon Pierre
Guy Peters
Matthew Denton
Paul Roness
Astrid Nilsen
Matthew Flinders
Jørgen Christensen
Vidar Rolland
Per Lagreid
Koen Verhoest
Geert Brouckaert
Bram Verschuere
Falke Meyers
Eva Beuselinck
Bob Gregory
John Murray (Chair)
Kristin Rubecksen
K. Rubecksen Partner
Eric Embleton (Chair)
IPA:
Peter Humphreys
Anne-Marie McGauran
Richard Boyle
Joanna O’Riordan
Orla O’Donnell
Jeanette Mair
CPMR members:
Jim Duffy (Dept finance)
Pat Hickson (Dept finance)
Anne McManus (Dept family & social affairs)
Dave Ring (Dept finance)
Matt Benville (Dept transport)
Sara White (Dept communications, marine and natural resources)
Geraldine Tallon (Dept environment)
Dermot Curran (Dept Taoiseach)
Marc Caball IRCHSS, UCD
Orlaith Quinn (Dept welfare)
Niamh Hardiman (UCD)
Melanie Pine (equality tribunal)
CPMR Regrets:
Dr. Desmond O’Halloran (UCD)
IPA staff:
Muiris MacCarthaigh
Mary Frances O’Connell
Declan McDonagh
Nathy Walsh
Angelo McNieve
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