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Permit Pulse: March 2021

Ireland issued 1,049 employment permits in March 2021, up 9% on February and down 14% on March 2020.

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The month in numbers

March 2021 at a glance

This month

1,049

Up 9% on the month before

Same month last year

1,222

Down 14% on it

Year to date

3,383

Down 15% on 2020

Employers with a permit this month

511

101 for the first time

Twelve months to March

Mar
1,049
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 20
1,765

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 1,049 employment permits in March 2021, up 9% on February and down 14% on March 2020.

That brings the year to 3,383 permits, down 15% on the same point in 2020.

511 employers received at least one permit in the month, 101 of them for the first time.

University Hospital Limerick took the most, with 27.

Busiest counties: Dublin (416), Cork (68), Limerick (57).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in March

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

#EmployerCountyMarMonth beforeMar 20202021 to date
1University Hospital LimerickLimerick27368104
2Google Ireland LimitedDublin22132865
3Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth2091431
4Castle Ceilings & Partitions Ltd180018
5University Hospital KerryKerry1641931
6Accenture LimitedDublin15111133
7Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin1560168
8Infosys LimitedDublin1541330
9Tallaght University Hospital140016
10Facebook Ireland Limited1181236
11Ernst & Young1017144
12Staunton Foods LimitedCork105015
13TikTok Technology LimitedDublin106033
14Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital953225
15Children's Health Ireland881927

New to permits

101 employers took their first ever permit in March

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Protego Technologies LimitedMeath8
MCD Garden Sheds LtdDublin6
Codelab Technology LimitedDublin4
Aperee Living Belgooly LimitedDublin3
Clocktower Productions DACWicklow3
Kyte Powertech LimitedCavan3
Glen Dimplex Europe Holdings LimitedDublin2
MacHale Plant Hire Limited2
P&A Foods Limited2
Sangster Limited2

Where

Permits by county in March

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

Dublin (208 employers)
416
Cork (31 employers)
68
Limerick (20 employers)
57
Louth (6 employers)
29
Kildare (14 employers)
26
Meath (12 employers)
26
Kerry (8 employers)
23
Galway (10 employers)
16
Waterford (8 employers)
14
Donegal (4 employers)
11

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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.