'There is €20m of our money, of public money, being invested in this' - Calls for statment on event centre

Calls are mounting for a public statement from the developers of Cork’s stalled event centre, amid renewed reassurances that the project is still on track.

Cllr Mick Finn (Ind) backed the calls from a leading city publican, but went further to demand that councillors be briefed on the timeline for the project, nine months after the Taoiseach turned the sod and almost two years after almost €20m in state aid was sanctioned.

Mr Finn said the city’s elected public representatives, and the public in general, deserve to know what’s going on, what is planned, and more importantly, when it’s planned, given the level of public funding being ploughed into it.