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Permit Pulse: December 2020

Ireland issued 1,134 employment permits in December 2020, down 17% on November.

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The month in numbers

December 2020 at a glance

This month

1,134

Down 17% on the month before

Same month last year

n/a

Year to date

16,421

Employers with a permit this month

454

73 for the first time

Twelve months to December

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 1,134 employment permits in December 2020, down 17% on November.

454 employers received at least one permit in the month, 73 of them for the first time.

University Hospital Limerick took the most, with 34.

Busiest counties: Dublin (366), Cork (69), Limerick (54).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in December

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

#EmployerCountyDecMonth beforeDec 20192020 to date
1University Hospital LimerickLimerick34100228
2Galway University HospitalGalway25140190
3Slaney Foods International UCWexford2560147
4Cavan General HospitalCavan23170131
5Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth22360283
6Children's Health Ireland2260123
7Google Ireland LimitedDublin20140337
8Wexford General HospitalWexford195088
9Letterkenny University Hospital18120126
10Mullingar Regional Hospital172076
11University Hospital WaterfordWaterford17280154
12Beaumont Hospital15150205
13Mayo University HospitalMayo15140134
14Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin142053
15St. Vincent's Healthcare GroupDublin14120147

New to permits

73 employers took their first ever permit in December

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Tallaght University Hospital4
Corby Carriers LimitedLeitrim3
A-LIGN Compliance and Security IE LimitedDublin2
Douglas Kaldi at Dundrum Ltd2
GN Lexington Property LimitedDublin2
HSBC France, Dublin Branch2
James Montgomery and John Montgomery2
Pro-Riso Dental Clinic LimitedDublin2
Riverside Healthcare Ltd2
AKM Consultants LimitedDublin1

Where

Permits by county in December

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

Dublin (176 employers)
366
Cork (30 employers)
69
Limerick (12 employers)
54
Wexford (5 employers)
47
Waterford (4 employers)
33
Galway (7 employers)
32
Louth (6 employers)
32
Cavan (8 employers)
32
Tipperary (6 employers)
15
Mayo (1 employers)
15

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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.