Funding a bootcamp in Ireland

Quite possibly, and we would rather you asked us that than found out later. If you are unemployed it is free, if you are working it is 90% subsidised, and the subject areas overlap heavily with what we teach. The reasons people end up not doing it are practical rather than promotional: places are limited and competitive, intakes run on an academic calendar, some courses assume a degree or prior study, and a Level 8 or 9 programme over a year is a different commitment from an intensive practical course. Check what is open in your area first. If it fits, take it. If it does not, the routes on this page are how a course you choose gets funded.

No, and it is worth being precise because this one catches people. BTEA pays your welfare rate while you attend an approved full-time day course at an Irish institution leading to a recognised qualification, and online or distance study is outside its scope. So it is not a question of whether we are good enough for it; the scheme is built around full-time attendance at approved Irish courses. If you are on a jobseeker's payment and want to retrain, the Part-Time Education Option is the equivalent route that does reach a course like ours, and the Training Support Grant can put up to EUR 1,000 towards the fee.

Realistically no, for a private course like ours, and the two reliefs that exist show why. Section 473A gives 20% on tuition fees but is scoped to approved colleges and to undergraduate courses of at least two years or approved postgraduate courses, with a large disregard before relief starts. Section 476 gives 20% on SOLAS-approved IT courses, but only on fees between EUR 315 and EUR 1,270, capping the refund near EUR 254, and off a list that has been dormant for years. The Irish tax route that does work is the employer one, where fees for role-relevant training are exempt from benefit-in-kind entirely.

It decides which half of this page applies to you. For the schemes in the third section it is decisive, because they fund courses inside the Irish qualifications framework delivered by institutions the State has selected, and our AZAV certification is a German quality accreditation with no standing in that framework. For the three routes in the second section it does not matter at all: the employer exemption has no approved-college requirement, the Part-Time Education Option regulates your welfare status rather than the course and names distance education explicitly, and a credit union lends to you rather than to a school.

Your employer first, because the Irish tax treatment makes employer-paid training straightforward and it is the only route that can cover the whole fee. If that is not available, the practical answer is a course you can do alongside work, paid for over time: our shorter self-paced courses with regular instructor meetings cost considerably less than the live bootcamps and run outside a working week, and interest-free instalments spread whatever you choose across up to 60 months. Note that the Springboard+ route has part-time options too, so it is worth checking those before assuming a full-time commitment.

For a private course you choose, largely yes, and saying so is more useful than implying otherwise. Ireland puts its public money into free and subsidised places inside its own education system rather than into portable funding, which is why this page starts by telling you to look there. What is genuinely available for a course like ours is an employer who can pay tax-efficiently, a jobseeker's payment you can keep while studying part-time with up to EUR 1,000 towards fees, a credit union that will lend without asking about the school, and a payment plan that costs nothing extra. That is a real set of options; it is just not a voucher.