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Permit Pulse: September 2020

Ireland issued 1,143 employment permits in September 2020, up 9% on August.

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The month in numbers

September 2020 at a glance

This month

1,143

Up 9% on the month before

Same month last year

n/a

Year to date

12,630

Employers with a permit this month

576

111 for the first time

Twelve months to September

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 1,143 employment permits in September 2020, up 9% on August.

576 employers received at least one permit in the month, 111 of them for the first time.

Anglo Beef Processors Ireland took the most, with 21.

Busiest counties: Dublin (559), Cork (64), Waterford (36).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in September

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

#EmployerCountySepMonth beforeSep 20192020 to date
1Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth21220194
2Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford21310356
3Google Ireland LimitedDublin18300272
4Intel Ireland LimitedKildare18200122
5Facebook Ireland Limited17140187
6Software Labs Campus Unlimited CompanyDublin165022
7Accenture LimitedDublin13170188
8St. James's Hospital125064
9Amazon Ireland Support Services LimitedCork110017
10Ernst & Young112064
11Infosys LimitedDublin1180168
12Tara Winthrop Private Clinic LimitedDublin112014
13Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin106053
14Apple Distribution International LimitedCork97055
15Wipro LimitedDublin92052

New to permits

111 employers took their first ever permit in September

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Castleross Nursing Home LimitedDublin7
TAS Modular Data LimitedDublin4
CloudSphere LimitedDublin3
Zepnick Solutions Inc3
Boundless Payroll Ireland LimitedDublin2
Khana Ghar LimitedDublin2
Kowloon Investments LimitedDublin2
TSG Interactive Services (Ireland) LimitedDublin2
Truvision Consultancy Services Limited2
ACB Group Design and Construct Ltd.1

Where

Permits by county in September

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

Dublin (283 employers)
559
Cork (29 employers)
64
Waterford (4 employers)
36
Kildare (11 employers)
34
Limerick (14 employers)
29
Louth (4 employers)
26
Meath (9 employers)
21
Galway (12 employers)
16
Wexford (4 employers)
16
Kerry (8 employers)
14

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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.