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Permit Pulse: April 2020

Ireland issued 1,765 employment permits in April 2020, up 44% on March.

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The month in numbers

April 2020 at a glance

This month

1,765

Up 44% on the month before

Same month last year

n/a

Year to date

5,750

Employers with a permit this month

589

98 for the first time

Twelve months to April

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 1,765 employment permits in April 2020, up 44% on March.

589 employers received at least one permit in the month, 98 of them for the first time.

Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited took the most, with 56.

Busiest counties: Dublin (671), Cork (86), Waterford (65).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in April

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

#EmployerCountyAprMonth beforeApr 20192020 to date
1Amazon Data Services Ireland LimitedDublin565088
2Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited CompanyOffaly5000125
3Google Ireland LimitedDublin47280142
4Galway University HospitalGalway4213066
5Beaumont Hospital3340098
6Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford33180197
7Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital3332088
8Facebook Ireland Limited2912078
9University Hospital WaterfordWaterford291036
10Infosys LimitedDublin2713093
11Accenture LimitedDublin2411079
12St. James Hospital2318052
13South Tipperary General HospitalTipperary2213046
14Cavan General HospitalCavan214031
15Portiuncula University Hospital218033

New to permits

98 employers took their first ever permit in April

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Eugene O Neill20
Dublin South, Kildare, West Wicklow Community Healthcare_x000D_Dublin15
Irish Casing Company Limited9
Hanwha Energy Corporation Ireland LimitedDublin5
St. Jame's Hospital4
Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin3
CareChoice Swords Two LimitedDublin3
Sanler Property Developments LimitedKildare3
Wuxi Vaccines Ireland LimitedLouth3
Alliance Contract Carpets Flooring ltd2

Where

Permits by county in April

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

Dublin (236 employers)
671
Cork (36 employers)
86
Waterford (5 employers)
65
Galway (15 employers)
62
Offaly (4 employers)
55
Meath (11 employers)
40
Wexford (9 employers)
39
Limerick (13 employers)
33
Cavan (5 employers)
32
Tipperary (6 employers)
29

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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.