City businesses ‘will have to pick up most of E11.3m benchmarking tab’

CORK City businesses will be have to pick up most of the E11.3 million tab for paying benchmarking and operating the Carrigrennan waste water plant next year, Lord Mayor Cllr Colm Burke claimed yesterday.

It will cost E5 million extra to finance the additional benchmarking and sustaining progress payroll costs. And it will cost another E6.3 million to operate the Carrigrennan waste water plant bringing the total to E11.3 million.

But Cork City Council only received 2.8 million from central government towards the additional payrolls costs, said Mr Burke.