I think you're going to have to do a bit of sleuthing around to the various agencies listed on this [broken link removed] in relation to the below activities -
From [broken link removed]
The Trade
The company in which investment is made must carry on qualifying trading operations. These are:
the manufacture of goods (including computer services)
the operation of certain tourist traffic undertakings
internationally traded services
the cultivation of mushrooms
the micro-propagation of plants and plant cloning
the cultivation of horticultural produce in greenhouses
research and development activity which is undertaken with a view to carrying on certain of these qualifying trading operations
commercial research and development activities
the construction and leasing of Advance Factory buildings
the production, publication, marketing and promotion of certain musical recordings by a new artist
recycling activities in relation to waste material, which has been subjected to any process or treatment, which results in value-added material that is reusable. Waste material means any of the following: packaging; construction and demolition waste; metals, wood, glass and plastics; electrical and electronic equipment; batteries; end of life mechanically propelled vehicles [[broken link removed]]. (See also point (c) below, under the heading “Qualifying trades requiring grants/grant approval”).
Some of the above activities require certification by a development agency and/or grant aid to qualify for BES purposes, as follows:
Activities requiring certification for BES
Research and Development carried out with a view to carrying out a qualifying trade
Tourist traffic undertakings
Cultivation of horticulture produce (in greenhouses)
Music industry (promotion of one new artist)
Construction and leasing of an Advance Factory
Who certifies these activities?
Research and development activities undertaken with a view to carrying on certain qualifying trades – Enterprise Ireland, SFADCO or Udaras na Gaeltachta, as appropriate.
Tourist traffic undertakings – Failte Ireland.
Micro-propagation of plants, plant cloning, and horticultural cultivation (in greenhouses) – The Minister for Agriculture Fisheries and Food.
Music industry, promotion of new artist – The Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport.
Construction and leasing of an Advance Factory – IDA, SFADCO or Udaras na Gaeltachta.
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Or you might call the Revenue Commissioners
Queries on the Scheme
Queries in relation to operation of this scheme should be addressed to
to Office of the Revenue Commissioners,
Business Investment - Incentives Branch,
Corporate Business and International Division,
Dublin Castle,
Dublin 2.
Ph: 01-7024107 or 01-6475000 Extension 24107
E-Mail: cillbyrn@revenue.ie
To answer the question you actually asked - to find out if the particular one in question went ahead, you need to know the company name, and be willing to pay maybe a fiver to access publicly available info.
If you do, you can go the CRO website, do a search for the company, and then you need to look through the company's list of submitted documents, see if they submitted any Form B5 (to register an allotment/issue of shares) in the last couple of years.
If they haven't, then they never issued new shares so they never did a BES - if they did, then you can pay about €3 to have a scanned copy of the details of the form B5 emailed to you.
Thanks mandelbrot, I checked their details on CRO and don't see any B5 forms in the time frame in question, so it probably didn't go ahead.
Many Thanks.