Ireland by county
Employment permits in County Kildare
1,414 employment permits in 2026, 4.7% of the national total, ranked 3 of 27 by county.
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What the numbers say
1,414 permits for County Kildare by the end of September 2026, already 118% of the 1,194 issued in the whole of 2025.
At the current pace 2026 would finish around 1,885, up 58% on 2025.
The busiest full year on record was 2024 with 2,342 permits. In 2010 the figure was 702. That is a 3.3-fold rise.
Year by year
Kildare since 2010
702
2010
324
2011
205
2012
216
2013
470
2014
416
2015
360
2016
303
2017
375
2018
339
2019
572
2020
528
2021
2.2k
2022
1.7k
2023
2.3k
2024
1.2k
2025
1.4k
2026
169 applications refused in 2026.
All countys in 2026
Employers
Biggest permit users in Kildare
NH134permits in 20261,411 over 7 years
CCComfort Care LimitedKildare104permits in 2026207 over 3 years
AM96permits in 20261,420 over 10 years
INIntel Ireland LimitedKildare71permits in 20262,345 over 17 years
MUMurphy International LimitedKildare54permits in 202699 over 6 years- CH41permits in 2026202 over 12 years
PH38permits in 2026363 over 16 years
MN34permits in 2026178 over 12 years- MM33permits in 2026160 over 7 years
KT31permits in 202664 over 3 years- TE30permits in 2026731 over 6 years
- AMAshbourne Meats Roscrea UCKildare27permits in 2026110 over 8 years
RCRiada Care LimitedKildare23permits in 2026222 over 7 years
RN23permits in 202629 over 2 years
DFDawn Farm FoodsKildare21permits in 2026225 over 16 years- HOHobartstown LimitedKildare18permits in 202657 over 4 years
SN12permits in 2026110 over 11 years
CC12permits in 202687 over 7 years
NPNikon Precision Europe GMBHKildare11permits in 2026378 over 14 years
XF11permits in 202660 over 8 years
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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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