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Permit Pulse: August 2020

Ireland issued 1,046 employment permits in August 2020, down 26% on July.

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The month in numbers

August 2020 at a glance

This month

1,046

Down 26% on the month before

Same month last year

n/a

Year to date

11,487

Employers with a permit this month

559

105 for the first time

Twelve months to August

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 1,046 employment permits in August 2020, down 26% on July.

559 employers received at least one permit in the month, 105 of them for the first time.

Dawn Meats Ireland UC took the most, with 31.

Busiest counties: Dublin (459), Cork (49), Waterford (40).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in August

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

#EmployerCountyAugMonth beforeAug 20192020 to date
1Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford31280335
2Google Ireland LimitedDublin30230254
3Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth22260173
4Amazon Data Services Ireland LimitedDublin20250200
5Intel Ireland LimitedKildare20260104
6Accenture LimitedDublin17220175
7Facebook Ireland Limited14200170
8Kepak Cork Unlimited CompanyMeath100039
9Adelaide & Meath Hospital Inc The National Children's HospitalMeath90065
10FISC-Ireland LimitedDublin916047
11Irish Country Meats (Sheepmeat) Unlimited93035
12Infosys LimitedDublin870157
13National Pen Promotional Products LtdLouth83031
14St Vincents Healthcare GroupDublin81012
15Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin78030

New to permits

105 employers took their first ever permit in August

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

EmployerCountyPermits
GE Management Services Ireland LimitedDublin3
Murphy International LimitedKildare3
Act Now CSR Limited2
Anatolia Food Company LimitedGalway2
Cobh General Hospital2
Tavan Meats LtdCavan2
Trinity Film and Media Limited2
Virtusa Consulting and Services Ireland Limited2
3fe Coffee Limited1
ABHI Technologies LimitedWicklow1

Where

Permits by county in August

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

Dublin (243 employers)
459
Cork (33 employers)
49
Waterford (8 employers)
40
Kildare (14 employers)
38
Meath (8 employers)
36
Louth (5 employers)
35
Galway (17 employers)
25
Limerick (12 employers)
24
Cavan (3 employers)
13
Tipperary (4 employers)
9

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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.