CSIrish employer
Children's Health Ireland
45 employment permits issued in 2026, ranked 83 of 7,732 Irish employers with permits this year. 1,926 permits across 8 years since 2019.
Month by month
2026
Permits issued by month. A run of months usually means an ongoing programme, not a one-off hire.
Year by year
Since 2019
What the numbers say
45 permits so far in 2026, against 82 in the whole of 2025.
Permits were issued in 9 of the 9 months published so far, which points to an ongoing hiring programme, not a one-off.
Busiest full year: 2023 with 414 permits. First year on record: 2019.
The record
45 permits in 2026 put Children's Health Ireland comfortably inside the group of Irish employers who use the permit system every year, at 83rd of 7,732.
Children's Health Ireland first shows up in the figures in 2019, and across 8 years it has been issued 1,926 employment permits in all, peaking at 414 in 2023. Recent years show a decline from the peak.
The 2026 pattern is spread across the year: permits in 9 of 9 published months, busiest in April (8).
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Routine, not exceptional
The count is not spectacular and does not need to be: it shows an employer that uses the permit route as one normal channel among several, year after year.
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What you need to work here
- A job offer and a contract of employment signed by you and the employer before anything is submitted. Applications must reach the Department at least 12 weeks before the start date.
- The right permit for the job. Most trades and driving roles go through a General Employment Permit, which is issued for 2 years and can be renewed. Roles on the Critical Skills list use a Critical Skills Employment Permit.
- Pay at or above the minimum for the permit. For a General Employment Permit the Department currently lists it as generally EUR 36,605 a year, with lower figures for meat processing, horticulture, healthcare assistants and home support. Check the official figure for your role before you rely on it.
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Source: Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Employment Permit Statistics. Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. A permit issued to a company is a record of a past application. It is not a vacancy and not a promise of sponsorship.
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