Business innovation initiative claim

Complete the Claims Checklist for each claim and submit with all required documents.

If any of the required documents is missing, the claim will be returned.

• Business Innovation Initiative Checklist.doc

If you do not know if your project is ERDF co-funded, please contact your Development Adviser.

• Business Innovation Initiative Claim form (.xls)
• Timesheet (.xls)
• Business Innovation Initiative - progress report (.doc)
• Business Innovation Initiative - Inspection guide - Preparing for a site inspection (.doc) - please note there are no onsite visits at the moment.
• Business Innovation Initiative Directors Statement (.doc)
• Grant Inspection Guide (.docx)

• All claims in respect of grants approved in excess of €400,000 must be certified by an Independent Accountant.
• Enterprise Ireland still reserves the right to request a claim to be certified by an Independent Accountant where deemed necessary and may withhold payment of the claim until such request has been complied with.
• If your claim requires certification, it must be certified (signed and dated) by an Independent Accountant on their headed paper.
• Please download and send the Independent Accountants Report (IAR) Completion Instructions to your Independent Accountant for completion. Note that their report should certify the Details (Date of, project number(s) and expenditure amount) as outlined on the Directors Statement relating to claim.

IAR Template [doc]

Submit your claim to Enterprise Ireland by email to IndustryGrantClaims@enterprise-ireland.com

** Please note that claims are not accepted by post.

• Remember, when emailing, to include your Company Name and Project Number in the Subject Line.
• Use your Client Number (CES ID) number when encrypting files. Your CES ID number can be found in “Schedule A” of your company’s Letter of Offer.

• Your claim will be assigned to a Grant Payment Officer who will review the details and seek clarification from you if necessary.
• If all is in order the claim will be passed to the inspection team who will be in contact with you to organise a visit to your company to validate your claim. 
• The inspector will discuss the outcome of the validation with you and will instruct the payment officer to pay, defer or disallow the claim depending on their findings.
• The payment officer completes the authorisation of your claim and submits a payment request to our Finance Department.
• Details of the approved payment will issue from Grant Payments.