It could take between 12 to 18 months to complete the retendering process for the massive State aid package on offer for the proposed Cork event centre project.
The latest extension to an already long-stalled project comes ahead of the first meeting on Friday of the board set up to oversee the new procurement process.
The timeline update on a project which had its sod turned in 2016 but where construction has yet to start, was provided by the outgoing minister for local government Darragh O’Brien in a written response to a parliamentary question from Labour TD Eoghan Kenny.
