€60m music school start this year unlikely

CONSTRUCTION on the €60 million Cork School of Music is unlikely to begin this year because of financial uncertainties.

Education Minister Noel Dempsey said work should have started last summer, when he announced Government approval for contract negotiations last April.

But Jarvis, the Government’s partners in the Public Private Partnership (PPP), ran into financial difficulty in Britain earlier this summer. As a result, it was decided in July the bank backing Jarvis on the project should be a signatory to the contract.