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Permit Pulse: September 2026

Ireland issued 3,326 employment permits in September 2026, down 10% on August and up 27% on September 2025.

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The month in numbers

September 2026 at a glance

This month

3,326

Down 10% on the month before

Same month last year

2,627

Up 27% on it

Year to date

29,989

Up 33% on 2025

Employers with a permit this month

1,692

270 for the first time

Twelve months to September

Sep
3,326
Aug
3,694
Jul
3,842
Jun
3,476
May
3,306
Apr
3,356
Mar
2,940
Feb
2,823
Jan 26
3,226
Dec
2,440
Nov
2,889
Oct 25
3,092

Permits issued per month, all employers, all permit types.

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,326 employment permits in September 2026, down 10% on August and up 27% on September 2025.

That brings the year to 29,989 permits, up 33% on the same point in 2025.

1,692 employers received at least one permit in the month, 270 of them for the first time.

Weltec Engineering Ltd took the most, with 58.

Busiest counties: Dublin (965), Cork (199), Kildare (179).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in September

Open an employer for its month-by-month pattern, its address and how to approach it.

#EmployerCountySepMonth beforeSep 20252026 to date
1Weltec Engineering LtdWaterford58127103
2Comfort Care LimitedKildare47111104
3Resilience Healthcare LimitedClare4139192
4H.A O'Neil Limited (Jones Engineering)390041
5Carton Brothers Unlimited Company321840
6Sintek Insaat Endustriyel Tesisler Anonim Sirketi240024
7Costern Unlimited CompanyDublin23197224
8Silver Stream Healthcare Management LimitedMeath21214111
9Accenture LimitedDublin201318128
10Parade Resources LimitedWexford1944068
11Tata Consultancy Services LimitedDublin19288154
12Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin182340112
13Farm Solutions Ltd1814369
14Applus Inspection Services Ireland LimitedDublin17613165
15Ernst & Young172825145

New to permits

270 employers took their first ever permit in September

A first permit usually means a company has just found out it can hire this way. These are the ones with the most.

EmployerCountyPermits
Sintek Insaat Endustriyel Tesisler Anonim Sirketi24
HPL Engineering Services Limited16
Havenwood Nursing Home Limited8
Athenry Truck & Refrigeration Centre Limited6
Coolworld UK & Ireland Assets Limited6
Turmec Teoranta6
Education And Training Boards Ireland5
Bella Enterprises Limited4
Clean Energy Solar Limited3
Silvahome Furniture Limited3

Where

Permits by county in September

Counted from the employers' registered addresses, so a head office in Dublin carries the permits for sites elsewhere.

Dublin (465 employers)
965
Cork (109 employers)
199
Kildare (48 employers)
179
Meath (29 employers)
96
Galway (42 employers)
91
Limerick (45 employers)
85
Waterford (16 employers)
77
Clare (14 employers)
57
Louth (13 employers)
45
Wexford (17 employers)
45

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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.

Is this your organisation? To update what is shown here, or for more information, email us. The figures come from the published register; we cannot change the register itself, only how it is presented here.

Permit Pulse is compiled by Sama Talent Group from the Department's published permits-by-company figures. Figures for a month can be revised in later publications.