Session 3 -- The Added Value of the EU Structural Funds, Past, Present and Future.
Ministerial Chair: Brian Hayes, Minister of State for Public Service Reform and the Office of Public Works, T.D..
The Regulation of the Structural Funds & Current Negotiations, Andor Ürmös, Policy Analyst, DG Regional and Urban Policy.
Current Negotiations -- What's at Stake for Older People & People with Disabilities, Professor Gerard Quinn, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Linking the new Structural Funds Regulations to Evolving European Standards: EU Expert Group Common European Guidelines on Transition to Community Living (2012),
Ines Bulic, European Expert Group.
Successful Transatlantic Experience: Linking Federal Funding to Federal Policy of Community Living for older people and people with disabilities in the US; The New US Administration for Community Living (ACL), Kathy Greenlee, Administrator of the Administration for Community Living and US Assistant Secretary for Aging.