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Permit Pulse: July 2020

Ireland issued 1,405 employment permits in July 2020, down 11% on June.

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The month in numbers

July 2020 at a glance

This month

1,405

Down 11% on the month before

Same month last year

n/a

Year to date

10,441

Employers with a permit this month

666

128 for the first time

Twelve months to July

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 1,405 employment permits in July 2020, down 11% on June.

666 employers received at least one permit in the month, 128 of them for the first time.

Dawn Meats Ireland UC took the most, with 28.

Busiest counties: Dublin (574), Cork (76), Limerick (43).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in July

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

#EmployerCountyJulMonth beforeJul 20192020 to date
1Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford28560304
2Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth2680151
3Intel Ireland LimitedKildare2620084
4Amazon Data Services Ireland LimitedDublin25360180
5Google Ireland LimitedDublin23290224
6Accenture LimitedDublin22220158
7Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin213037
8Beaumont Hospital21220162
9Facebook Ireland Limited20250156
10St. James's Hospital2012047
11University Hospital LimerickLimerick20230171
12Children's Health Ireland1616078
13FISC-Ireland LimitedDublin163038
14Wexford General HospitalWexford1611052
15Galway University HospitalGalway14140141

New to permits

128 employers took their first ever permit in July

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Carhue Piggeries LimitedCork5
Aon Broking Technology LimitedDublin3
Avoncourt Packaging LtdCork3
Norton Lifelock Ireland Limited3
African Trends LimitedClare2
Commission for Regulation of Utilities2
Kilbrew Recouperation & Nursing Care Limited2
M & T Aviation Limited2
Mallon Technology LtdDublin2
Papa Rich Limerick Limited2

Where

Permits by county in July

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

Dublin (276 employers)
574
Cork (44 employers)
76
Limerick (16 employers)
43
Galway (18 employers)
43
Kildare (16 employers)
42
Waterford (5 employers)
39
Louth (7 employers)
36
Mayo (6 employers)
20
Meath (13 employers)
17
Kerry (6 employers)
16

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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.