2024 Agenda

April 16, Croke Park, Dublin

Building More Homes for More People

8:20am

Welcome and opening remarks from the Chair

Ivan Yates
Entrepreneur & Broadcaster
8:30am

Welcome from the IHBA

Michael Kelleher
Group Operations Director of O’ Flynn Group

Housing Policy & Development Strategy

8:45am

MINISTERIAL ADDRESS:

Darragh O’Brien TD
Minister for Housing, Local Government & Heritage
9:00am

PANEL DISCUSSION:

Planning our future: Review of the National Planning Framework

By April 2024 we should have clarity on the revised NPF, the blueprint for Ireland’s future growth and development in the years ahead. Hear reactions from a range of stakeholders

Introduction from Paul Hogan, Acting Assistant Secretary – Head of the Planning Division –  Department of Housing, Planning, Local Government & Heritage (DHLGH)

Anne Marie O’Connor
Deputy Regulator, the Office of the Planning Regulator
Dr. Kieran McQuinn 
Research Professor, the Economic and Social Research Institute
Paul Hogan
Acting Assistant Secretary – Head of the Planning Division, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (DHLGH)
Seán Armstrong
Head of Climate & Construction Innovation Unit, Dept of Housing, Local Government & Heritage

Delivering Affordable Housing

9:45am

INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE:

The way forward: A new manifesto for affordable housing in Europe

Federico Nahuel Lazzari
Secretary-General and Director of Communications & Public Affairs, Build Europe, Brussels
10:00am

PANEL DISCUSSION:

Let’s talk about land: Using public land to deliver affordable housing at scale

How can the government actively manage land to scale up the delivery of new housing?

Bob Jordan
Chief Executive, The Housing Agency
Isabelle Gallagher
Head of Development, Quintain Ireland
John Hannigan
CEO, Circle Voluntary Housing Association and Chair, The Housing Alliance
Phelim O’Neill 
Head of Property, the Land Development Agency
10:35am

Morning break

Spotlight on Utilities: How are utilities delivering infrastructure to aid development?

11:05am

SPOTLIGHT ON: Water infrastructure

Collaborate – Improve – Succeed: How Uisce Éireann is supporting housing delivery

Yvonne Harris
Head of Customer Operations and Connection Developer Services, Uisce Éireann
11:15am

SPOTLIGHT ON: Turn-Key Connectivity Solutions for New Developments

Barry McWeeney
Head of New Developments, SIRO

The Ultimate Housing Debate

11:30am

Can we get housing right? The national conversation on the lack of housing just won’t go away. We’ve invited leading industry experts and commentators to give us their solutions to solving the housing crisis…

Dermot O’Leary
Chief Economist, Goodbody Stockbrokers
Marian Finnegan
Managing Director, Sherry FitzGerald Residential & Advisory
Michael O’Flynn
Michael O’Flynn, Chairman & CEO, O’Flynn Group
Paul Mitchell
Director and Co-Founder, Mitchell McDermott
12:15pm

Lunch break

1:15pm

Welcome back from the Chair

Ivan Yates
Entrepreneur & Broadcaster

Costs & Viability

1:20pm

What is the real cost of delivering a new home?

Michael Mahon
Chartered Quantity Surveyor and past president, SCSI
1:30pm

PANEL DISCUSSION:

The viability challenge of delivering affordable housing

Our panel share their insights into increasing the volume of affordable housing, tackling costs and funding models
Dara Deering
CEO, Home Building Finance Ireland (HBFI)
Pat Farrell
Pat Farrell, CEO, Irish Institutional Property (IIP)
Ronan McGrath
Managing Director, McGrath Quantity Surveyors
Ross O’Colmain
Head of High Tech Construction & Housing, Enterprise Ireland

The rise of MMC

2:05pm

PANEL DISCUSSION:

 What are the biggest drivers that enable the change to offsite construction? 

  • How MMC is helping to achieve net zero targets on projects
  • MMC’s contribution to rethinking ‘value’ and whole life cycle including design and maintenance
  • How to upgrade your current construction practices
  • The Government’s role in promoting MMC 
  • Viability of MMC
  • Financial incentives for innovating through MMC
Denise Tuffy
Director of Specialist Contracting, CIF
Des Riordan
Des Riordan, Associate Director, Clancy
John Desmond
Managing Director, Cygnum
Sarah Melody
MMC Integration Lead, John Sisk & Son
2:45pm

Spotlight on sustainable building materials:

Ronan McDermott
Director, Hempbuild Sustainable Products Ltd.

Sustainability & ESG

2:55pm

Spotlight on Energy Performance of Buildings: What are the new ambitious energy performance requirements for new and renovated buildings in the EU?

Ciarán Cuffe
Green MEP for Dublin
3:05pm

PANEL DISCUSSION:

Housing and sustainability

  • Best practices for affordable zero energy home design
  • Is it possible to build low cost, low carbon homes?
  • Demolition or refurbishment: Is it greener to renovate or rebuild? 
  • New and innovative funding models to fund net zero
  • Policy and regulatory updates
David McConnell
National Sales Manager for Heating Products at Mitsubishi Electric Ireland
PJ Rudden
Chairman of Construction Sector Innovation and Digital Adoption, Dept. of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform
PJ Ryan
Head of ESG, CIF
Seán Armstrong
Head of Climate & Construction Innovation Unit, Dept of Housing, Local Government & Heritage
3:45pm

Closing remarks and summit close

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