Climate Action Voucher

The core voucher route supports eligible Irish manufacturing and internationally traded services companies that are existing or potential clients of Enterprise Ireland or Údarás na Gaeltachta. High-potential start-ups and small, medium and large companies are included. Local Enterprise Office clients are excluded from this core route. Your Client Advisor assesses eligibility before inviting an application. The application form also provides for IDA Ireland client applications to be shared with that agency for assessment; this is not automatic eligibility.

There is generally one voucher per company. Enterprise Ireland may offer further vouchers where a company previously used the Climate Action Voucher under the Climate Enterprise Action Fund, to a maximum of two, and where it has more than one distinct operation or location, to a maximum of three. Further awards are discretionary; these ceilings are not additional automatic entitlements.

Name the independent external sustainability adviser (called a Green Service Provider) or course provider, and the person in your company who will lead the assignment or attend the course. Training must match the project goals and come from a reputable provider; certification is preferred. Enterprise Ireland can disallow unsuitable course fees. Use one service provider per project, approved through the directory or by the Green Programme Manager. Training must be structured with predefined learning objectives and a specification covering its title, duration, objectives, delivery method and content; it may be delivered online or in person.

This must be the only public funding for the proposed project. Do not claim costs already included in a claim to Enterprise Ireland, another government agency, the EU or any other grant. You make one claim under this grant. Your company’s tax clearance must be valid both when you submit that claim and when Enterprise Ireland pays it.

The voucher counts as de minimis aid, a category of public support with a combined limit of €300,000 from each EU Member State over a rolling three-year period. For this limit, companies form one group when one controls another through majority voting rights, the right to appoint or remove most of its governing body, or dominant influence under a contract or its constitution. Majority voting control through an agreement with other shareholders also counts, as do these links through other companies.

Declare previous de minimis awards from Enterprise Ireland and other state bodies to your company and linked group companies, with approval dates and amounts. Count aid when the legal right to receive it arises, regardless of when it is paid. Enterprise Ireland identifies this aid in the application and Schedule A of its Letter of Offer. Keep the records for ten years from approval; a false declaration that breaches the limit leads to recovery of the aid.

The project must comply with EU and national environmental law and the “do no significant harm” rules, which prevent the funded activity from causing significant environmental damage. Provide the application’s compliance declaration and a brief justification. The rules exclude fossil-fuel activities, including their downstream use, apart from qualifying natural-gas power or heat projects and related infrastructure meeting the technical guidance’s Annex III conditions.

Activities in the EU Emissions Trading System, where covered facilities account for emissions through allowances, must project emissions below the relevant benchmark. If the reduction is not substantially below it, explain why. Landfills and harmful long-term waste disposal are excluded. Incineration and mechanical-biological waste treatment, which combines sorting with biological treatment, are also excluded, with these limited exceptions:

• Plants dedicated exclusively to treating non-recyclable hazardous waste are excepted from the incineration exclusion. At existing incinerators, the exception covers increasing energy efficiency, capturing exhaust gases for storage or use, or recovering materials from ash.
• At existing mechanical-biological plants, the exception covers increasing energy efficiency or converting operations to recycle separated waste, compost bio-waste or use anaerobic digestion of bio-waste. Anaerobic digestion breaks down organic material without oxygen.

Those improvements at existing plants must not increase waste-processing capacity or extend plant life, and require evidence for the individual plant.

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• Client Advisor assessment and invitation to apply online are required.
• Start only after approval and return of the signed Letter of Offer.
• Submit the complete claim by the final claim date stated in the Letter of Offer.

Start with your Enterprise Ireland Client Advisor; the official contact page has a form to connect you with them. Discuss eligibility and the proposed adviser or course. You may then be invited to apply online. Include your company background, activities and expected outcomes, internal project lead and provider details. Select the main project objective in the application.

Provide your organisation’s carbon footprint and its calendar year, using Climate Toolkit 4 Business, the GHG Protocol, ISO 14064-1 or a similar method. If using a method other than the toolkit, include direct company emissions such as fuel and vehicles (Scope 1) and purchased-energy emissions (Scope 2); exclude supply-chain emissions (Scope 3).

For funding under the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility, supply the first and last names and dates of birth of the company’s beneficial owners, matching Ireland’s Central Register of Beneficial Ownership. If nobody has a stake above 25%, give the senior managing officials’ names and dates of birth instead. Organisations not required to register give the reason rather than filling in that ownership table.

Wait for approval and return the Letter of Offer signed by the company’s authorised officer before starting. Provide the authorised directors’ separate email addresses, inaccessible to non-directors, for the electronic offer; a single-director company supplies that director’s details, and an authorised company secretary can sign in place of another director. The guidelines suggest completing the assignment within six weeks. Submit the complete claim by the final claim date stated in your Letter of Offer.

Pay the provider, then download the current claim form and project-report workbook from the official claims page. Complete the progress report for every project and include the consultant’s report when using a consultant. Print, sign by hand and scan the declaration, and submit it with the workbook, invoices and bank-statement proof of payment. An invoice marked “paid” or a supplier statement is insufficient. Invoice amounts must cover the sum claimed, and invoices must describe the work and days. Convert foreign-currency costs at the payment-date exchange rate.

Email the complete claim to IndustryGrantClaims@enterprise-ireland.com by the final claim date, with your company name and project number in the subject. Use your client number (CES ID) from Schedule A when encrypting the files. Provide or reverify bank details if this is your first claim, details have changed, or they have not been verified within two years. Send them to bank.confirmation@enterprise-ireland.com, with a redacted bank statement showing the company name as it appears in the Letter of Offer, bank name and IBAN. Enterprise Ireland reviews the claim and pays the approved amount by bank transfer.