The Government has announced a fund of €250,000 to aid start-ups by female entrepreneurs.
The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, made the announcement which aims to stimulate high potential business start-ups by female entrepreneurs.
Enterprise Ireland say the scheme is intended to boost the number of innovative, export-oriented business being led and set up by female entrepreneurs.
The fund will be open for applications from Tuesday July 17 until September 4 2012.
The Government says that this is one of the measures under the Action Plan for Jobs 2012.
"In Ireland we currently have a relatively low level of female entrepreneurs" the Minister said, "so by targeting a substantial increase in that number we can make a real difference to the overall level of entrepreneurial activity in Ireland."
