9.00 Registration
9.30 Official Opening by Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Mr. Brendan Smith TD
CHAIR – MAIRÉAD MCGUINNESS
10.00 Success at last – pensions for farm spouses
Mary Sherry - Chairperson of IFA’s Farm Family Committee
Pension Planning
David Malone - Head of Information Services, The Pensions Board
SESSION 1 – ‘Who’ll get the farm and what will we do with the rest of them’
10.30 Agriculture needs women
Terry Cunningham - Teagasc
10.50 Succession planning in Irish families – what to do and what can go wrong
Frank Lanigan – Solicitor, Consultant with Malcomson Law
11.20 Break
11.45 How to start the succession conversation
Lyn Sykes - a world renowned authority on farm family succession planning
Open forum discussion
1.00-2.30 LUNCH
SESSION 2 – ‘Find your Voice’
2.30 Marrying in – to the farm and the family
Dr. Maureen Gaffney, Psychologist and RTÉ Broadcaster
3.15 Bernadette Maguire, ACCBank
3.35 ‘Growing a life you love’
Robyn Moore
This highly entertaining, inspiring and thought-provoking keynote presentation is designed to “shake up” participants’ perception of communication… and to re-engage them in life, their agricultural business, family, relationships, well-being, the community and…themselves.
5pm Official Close