No minutes exist for Cork events centre funding meeting

No minutes exist of the only meeting held between Department of Culture officials and Cork City Council on funding for the long-delayed events centre, the department has revealed.

Officials from the local authority met department representatives on April 19 last, at a time when developers BAM, which had won a public tender for €20m in state aid to develop the venue on the Beamish and Crawford site, had requested a further €18m in public funding.

Peter Horgan, the Labour Party representative in Cork, sought the minutes of this meeting under the Freedom of Information Act but had his request rejected on the grounds that such records do not exist.