Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has been notified of a construction start date for the Event Centre in Cork; and the date that was notified to his Department. [7015/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Cork Events Centre was included as a commitment under Project Ireland 2040. This underlines the Government’s objectives for 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 by Government in the context of Budget 2020 that responsibility for making the grant funding available for the project would transfer to my Department. However, responsibility for the advancement of proposals for the development of the Events Centre remains, in the first instance, a matter for Cork City Council.

A 2014 tender process by Cork City Council, the Sponsoring Authority, resulted in the selection of a consortium of the development company BAM as the preferred tenderer, with Live Nation as the preferred operator.

The Council has advised my Department that the consortium have recently confirmed to them that detailed design work on the Events Centre is well advanced and that construction work on the project will commence in 2023.