Details of the half-day consultation seminars are in the table below.

Date	Location	Venue	Registration
9 Nov	Dublin	The Gresham Hotel, O'Connell St, Dublin 1.	8.45 am
22 Nov	Carlow	Seven Oakes Hotel Athy Road Carlow	8.45 am
23 Nov	Cork	Maryborough House Hotel Maryborough Hill Douglas Cork	8.45 am
24 Nov	Limerick	The Lynch South Court Hotel Adare Road Raheen Roundabout Limerick	8.45 am
29 Nov	Mullingar	Mullingar Park Hotel Dublin Road Mullingar	8.45 am
30 Nov	Carrick-on- Shannon	The Bush Hotel Carrick-on-Shannon	8.45 am
1 Dec	Donegal	The Mill Park Hotel The Mullins Donegal Town	8.45 am

It is proposed that a number of workshops will be held covering the following themes. Depending on numbers attending and demand for individual workshops not all of these themes may be covered at every regional seminar.

Workshops

1. Income Supports

2. Housing

3. Health and Care

4. Education

5. Employment and training

6. Rural and urban responses

7. Other Policy areas: sports, culture, legal services, transport

8. Cross-cutting issue: gender

Please note these workshops will explore the above Policy themes as they impact on the various vulnerable groups identified in the National Action Plan against Poverty and Social Exclusion 2003 -2005 and include Lone Parents; Older People; Children; Women; Travellers; People with Disabilities; Migrants and Members of Ethnic Minority Groups; and People experiencing Urban Poverty and Rural Disadvantage.

Department of Social and Family Affairs, Áras Mhic Dhiarmada, Store Street, Dublin 1, Ireland.
An Roinn Gnóthaí Sóisialacha agus Teaghlaigh, Áras Mhic Dhiarmada, Sráid Stórais, Baile Átha Cliath 1, Éire.

Tel: + 353 1 7043 851 Fax: + 353 1 7043 032 e-mail:[email protected]