We can provide support for growing your number of staff through the Priming and Business Expansion Grants for companies involved in Manufacturing or Internationally Traded Services. Other agencies also provide supports for you to take on new staff and to train up staff to meet your businesses needs.

Intreo offer a range of supports for employers taking on new staff. From helping you to identify new staff through their online database to financial supports in the Jobsbridge (www.jobsbridge.ie) and Jobsplus (www.jobsplus.ie) which can provide up to €10,000 over 2 years of employment for new staff coming off the live registar.

There is also the Wage Subsidy scheme – incentive for taking on a new staff member who may have a disability – www.welfare.ie

Intertrade Ireland also provide supports for taking on graduates with the FUSION Programme aimed at developing new innovations or new product development.

Skillnets actively supports and works with businesses in Ireland to address their current and future skills needs. They fund groups of companies in the same region/sector, and with similar training needs, through training networks that deliver subsidised training to Irish businesses.