Work on Cork taskforce 'ongoing' as Fine Gael appoints first ever spokesperson on city

Simon Harris said the Cork City Taskforce would look at dereliction, safety and policing among other things

Tánaiste Simon Harris said: 'We’ve now done it in Dublin. It needs to happen in Cork.' Photo: Moya Nolan

Fine Gael has appointed its first ever spokesperson on Cork with the Tánaiste insisting that work is ongoing to establish the city taskforce his party promised within the first 100 days of government.

Simon Harris was speaking during a visit to Cork on Friday as he announced that Cork North Central TD Colm Burke will play a leading role in ensuring that the “issues that matter most to the people of Cork are front and centre of the government’s agenda”.