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Permit Pulse: March 2020

Ireland issued 1,222 employment permits in March 2020, down 14% on February.

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The month in numbers

March 2020 at a glance

This month

1,222

Down 14% on the month before

Same month last year

n/a

Year to date

3,985

Employers with a permit this month

466

97 for the first time

Twelve months to March

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 1,222 employment permits in March 2020, down 14% on February.

466 employers received at least one permit in the month, 97 of them for the first time.

Beaumont Hospital took the most, with 40.

Busiest counties: Dublin (430), Cork (52), Limerick (47).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in March

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

#EmployerCountyMarMonth beforeMar 20192020 to date
1Beaumont Hospital405065
2Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital327055
3Google Ireland LimitedDublin2833095
4Slaney Foods International UCWexford2769096
5Mater Misericordiae University HospitalDublin211023
6Children's Health Ireland193029
7Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited CompanyLimerick199036
8University Hospital KerryKerry191025
9Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford181240164
10St. James Hospital183029
11Liffey Meats (Cavan) Unlimited CompanyCavan1734075
12Kildare Chilling CompanyWaterford1623057
13St. Vincent's Healthcare GroupDublin165031
14Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth14910107
15Beacon Hospital Sandyford LimitedDublin142029

New to permits

97 employers took their first ever permit in March

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

EmployerCountyPermits
M.R. Concrete (Ireland) LimitedDonegal13
HSE CHO Dublin North City and CountyDublin6
Setanta Vehicle Sales North LtdDublin5
CareChoice Swords 2 Limited4
St. Mary's Centre (Telford) Ltd_x000D_3
Thorntons Recycling Centre LimitedDublin3
APT Workplace Pensions Limited2
Abbey Court Hostel Ltd2
Blarney Nursing & Retirement Home Limited2
Elm Green Nursing Home Ltd2

Where

Permits by county in March

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

Dublin (172 employers)
430
Cork (25 employers)
52
Limerick (15 employers)
47
Waterford (5 employers)
39
Wexford (6 employers)
36
Galway (13 employers)
29
Louth (5 employers)
27
Meath (11 employers)
25
Kildare (13 employers)
24
Cavan (3 employers)
22

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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.