Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Cork Event Centre; and when he last meet the local authority responsible for same. [31988/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Cork Event Centre was included as a commitment under Project Ireland 2040 and it underlines the Government’s objectives around urban regeneration, enhanced amenity and heritage, associated quality of life standards, balanced regional development, and the regeneration and development of Cork City Centre.

It was agreed in the context of Budget 2020 that responsibility at central Government level for making the grant aid support available for the project would transfer to my Department.

Responsibility for the advancement of proposals for the development of the Cork Event Centre remains, in the first instance, a matter for Cork City Council.

A meeting between officials of my Department and officials of Cork City Council to consider the next steps for Exchequer grant support of this project took place on the 8th of April this year. My Department is awaiting further contact from Cork City Council on this matter.