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Permit Pulse: October 2020

Ireland issued 1,291 employment permits in October 2020, up 13% on September.

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The month in numbers

October 2020 at a glance

This month

1,291

Up 13% on the month before

Same month last year

n/a

Year to date

13,921

Employers with a permit this month

604

102 for the first time

Twelve months to October

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 1,291 employment permits in October 2020, up 13% on September.

604 employers received at least one permit in the month, 102 of them for the first time.

Dawn Meats Ireland UC took the most, with 50.

Busiest counties: Dublin (525), Waterford (80), Meath (59).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in October

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

#EmployerCountyOctMonth beforeOct 20192020 to date
1Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford50210406
2Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth31210225
3Google Ireland LimitedDublin31180303
4St. Vincent's Healthcare GroupDublin2450121
5Kepak Longford Unlimited CompanyMeath233034
6Accenture LimitedDublin19130207
7Liffey Meats (Cavan) Unlimited CompanyCavan1610100
8Cognizant Technology Solutions Ireland LimitedDublin158086
9Facebook Ireland Limited15170202
10TikTok Technology LimitedDublin156031
11Infosys LimitedDublin14110182
12M P Walls Limited120019
13Irish Country Meats (Sheepmeat) Unlimited115051
14Kildare Chilling CompanyWaterford116079
15Ernst & Young1011074

New to permits

102 employers took their first ever permit in October

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Flanagan Nursing Home Ltd5
Aergo Capital Ltd2
Samy Innovations LimitedWicklow2
Sepam Solutions LimitedTipperary2
AA Unity Foods LimitedCork1
AerZeal Limited1
Alamgir Ventures LimitedLongford1
Alfa Medics Limited1
All n One Ltd1
Andre Putter1

Where

Permits by county in October

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

Dublin (250 employers)
525
Waterford (9 employers)
80
Meath (15 employers)
59
Cork (27 employers)
46
Limerick (23 employers)
39
Louth (4 employers)
37
Galway (14 employers)
28
Kildare (10 employers)
25
Cavan (4 employers)
24
Mayo (4 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.