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Please complete the following steps to claim your grant.
Review your Letter of Offer. This will confirm the Title of the Grant that you were approved, the Project Number of the Grant, the expenditure type and amount that was approved and the Final Claim Date (i.e. the last date by which all expenditure must be incurred, and a valid claim submitted to Enterprise Ireland).
The Smart Regions Local Infrastructure Projects Claim Checklist, Claim Form and Director Statement are all in the one Excel workbook below.
The Checklist provides a detailed description of all relevant forms and supporting documentation required to submit a valid claim. Please review the checklist before preparing your claim to ensure that you have all the relevant documentation to hand when completing the claim.
The Director Statement and Beneficiary Declaration of Compliance and Task Assignment Letter need to be printed, signed and returned as a PDF.
Please Do Not Convert the Excel claim worksheets to PDF before submitting to Enterprise Ireland as they will be returned.
Smart Regions Stream 2 Claim Workbook
When this step is required
Claims approved for funding in excess of €400,000 must be certified by an Independent Accountant by completing an IAR.
If your claim requires certification, it must be certified (signed and dated) by an Independent Accountant on their official headed paper.
Enterprise Ireland 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 a request has been complied with.
What you must provide
Download and send the Independent Accountant’s Report Template to your Independent Accountant for completion.
What the Independent Accountant must provide
Their report should certify details as outlined on the Directors Statement relating to the claim:
Important
Claims submitted without required documentation (including an IAR where applicable), will be returned, which may cause delays.
Log in to EPPM via the following link: URL & Credentials to follow
Follow the step-by-step instructions as provided in the ERDF Beneficiary User Guide (from training sessions).
Please save supporting documentation (invoices, pay slips etc.) in separate PDF files referencing the document in question and the Item No. assigned (as per Claim Workbook) in the title.
** Please note that claims under the Smart Regions Scheme are not accepted by post or by email.
The claim will be assigned to a payment officer, who will review the documentation to ensure that all required forms and documentation is included. If any required information is missing or the Final Claim Date has expired, the claim will be returned as invalid via EPPM system.
If all is in order, the claimed expenditure and associated supporting documentation will be desk inspected and passed to the Enterprise Ireland Grants 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 disallow or pay the claim depending on their findings.
The payment officer completes the authorisation of your claim and submits a payment request to our Finance Department.
A letter will issue via email from Grant Payments - Industry with details of the approved payment and advising that payment will follow shortly to the Grantee Company’s bank account.
