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Permit Pulse: February 2020

Ireland issued 1,428 employment permits in February 2020, up 7% on January.

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The month in numbers

February 2020 at a glance

This month

1,428

Up 7% on the month before

Same month last year

n/a

Year to date

2,763

Employers with a permit this month

538

134 for the first time

Twelve months to February

Dec
1,134
Nov
1,366
Oct
1,291
Sep
1,143
Aug
1,046
Jul
1,405
Jun
1,583
May
1,703
Apr
1,765
Mar
1,222
Feb
1,428
Jan 20
1,335

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 1,428 employment permits in February 2020, up 7% on January.

538 employers received at least one permit in the month, 134 of them for the first time.

Dawn Meats Ireland UC took the most, with 124.

Busiest counties: Dublin (509), Waterford (148), Louth (96).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in February

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

#EmployerCountyFebMonth beforeFeb 20192020 to date
1Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford124220146
2Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth912093
3Slaney Foods International UCWexford690069
4Liffey Meats (Cavan) Unlimited CompanyCavan3424058
5Google Ireland LimitedDublin3334067
6Accenture LimitedDublin3113044
7Infosys LimitedDublin2825053
8Facebook Ireland Limited2710037
9Kildare Chilling CompanyWaterford2318041
10Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited CompanyOffaly2253075
11Deloitte Ireland LLP1810028
12Irish Country Meats (Sheepmeat) Unlimited180018
13Amazon Data Services Ireland LimitedDublin1512027
14Ernst & Young1211023
15Cognizant Technology Solutions Ireland LimitedDublin117018

New to permits

134 employers took their first ever permit in February

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Entegro LimitedKilkenny7
Northland Process Piping5
Ashford Castle Hotel LimitedMayo2
Clontarf Castle LimitedDublin2
Coachouse Catering LimitedCork2
Hanley Energy LimitedMeath2
Himalaya House LimitedDublin2
Kilcumney Arms Hotel LimitedCavan2
Kingscourt Castle LimitedCavan2
Mama Mia Pizzeria Ltd2

Where

Permits by county in February

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

Dublin (227 employers)
509
Waterford (3 employers)
148
Louth (4 employers)
96
Wexford (3 employers)
71
Meath (16 employers)
58
Cork (30 employers)
41
Cavan (5 employers)
40
Kildare (10 employers)
22
Offaly (1 employers)
22
Limerick (9 employers)
21

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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.