Elusive Cork event centre already cost taxpayer €633k

More than €600,000 of taxpayers’ money has been spent on the controversial Cork event centre project ever before a brick is laid.

Cork City Council confirmed yesterday that “€367,000 remains” of the €1m it has received from the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for the scheme.

That means that €633,000 has been spent on what the council described as “costs in relation to economic advice for the project and professional fees for carrying out the public procurement processes”.