Firms are still advertising help with a scheme that closed in December 2024. Here is what is actually open.
There is real money available to an Irish SME for digital and AI adoption, and there is a persistent gap between what the schemes say they fund and what applicants assume they fund. The gap is almost always in the same place: the schemes pay for adoption and they do not pay for compliance, and two of them say so in writing.
These articles name the scheme, the amount, the body that administers it and the step that has to come first, because the sequencing is where most applications fail rather than the eligibility.