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Permit Pulse: February 2021

Ireland issued 965 employment permits in February 2021, down 30% on January and down 32% on February 2020.

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The month in numbers

February 2021 at a glance

This month

965

Down 30% on the month before

Same month last year

1,428

Down 32% on it

Year to date

2,334

Down 16% on 2020

Employers with a permit this month

540

118 for the first time

Twelve months to February

Feb
965
Jan 21
1,369
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 20
1,222

Permits issued per month, all employers, all permit types.

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 965 employment permits in February 2021, down 30% on January and down 32% on February 2020.

That brings the year to 2,334 permits, down 16% on the same point in 2020.

540 employers received at least one permit in the month, 118 of them for the first time.

University Hospital Limerick took the most, with 36.

Busiest counties: Dublin (415), Cork (62), Limerick (54).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in February

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

#EmployerCountyFebMonth beforeFeb 20202021 to date
1University Hospital LimerickLimerick3641177
2Tata Consultancy Services Ireland LimitedDublin350035
3Ernst & Young17171234
4Tata Consultancy Services LimitedDublin144718
5Google Ireland LimitedDublin13303343
6Amazon Ireland Support Services LimitedCork120012
7Accenture LimitedDublin1173118
8DPPS Contracts LimitedDonegal112013
9St. Vincent's Healthcare GroupDublin1025535
10Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin928037
11Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth929111
12Cork University HospitalCork912221
13Bon Secours Health System CLGDublin85313
14Children's Health Ireland811319
15Facebook Ireland Limited8172725

New to permits

118 employers took their first ever permit in February

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Tata Consultancy Services Ireland LimitedDublin35
Bartra OpCo (Beaumont NH) LimitedDublin3
Brookfield Care Centre LimitedCork3
Dundrum Steel RHD LimitedTipperary3
First Care Beneavin House Limited3
Capital GES LimitedDublin2
Firstcare Blainroe Lodge LimitedWicklow2
Kianda Techologies Limited2
Royal Thai Cuisine LimitedDublin2
ACL Cargo Ireland Limited1

Where

Permits by county in February

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

Dublin (224 employers)
415
Cork (32 employers)
62
Limerick (11 employers)
54
Meath (14 employers)
22
Tipperary (10 employers)
20
Kildare (11 employers)
20
Louth (7 employers)
19
Donegal (6 employers)
16
Wicklow (6 employers)
13
Waterford (7 employers)
12

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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.