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Permit Pulse: April 2021

Ireland issued 1,000 employment permits in April 2021, down 5% on March and down 43% on April 2020.

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The month in numbers

April 2021 at a glance

This month

1,000

Down 5% on the month before

Same month last year

1,765

Down 43% on it

Year to date

4,383

Down 24% on 2020

Employers with a permit this month

450

83 for the first time

Twelve months to April

Apr
1,000
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 20
1,703

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 1,000 employment permits in April 2021, down 5% on March and down 43% on April 2020.

That brings the year to 4,383 permits, down 24% on the same point in 2020.

450 employers received at least one permit in the month, 83 of them for the first time.

University Hospital Limerick took the most, with 42.

Busiest counties: Dublin (333), Limerick (56), Waterford (41).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in April

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

#EmployerCountyAprMonth beforeApr 20202021 to date
1University Hospital LimerickLimerick422716146
2University Hospital WaterfordWaterford2652939
3Galway University HospitalGalway2434250
4Ernst & Young2210566
5Mayo University HospitalMayo1831926
6University Hospital KerryKerry18162149
7Facebook Ireland Limited16112952
8Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital1493339
9South Tipperary General HospitalTipperary1342233
10Cavan General HospitalCavan1232130
11MCD Garden Sheds LtdDublin126018
12Capgemini Ireland LimitedDublin111116
13Beaumont Hospital1033324
14Portiuncula University Hospital1052120
15Slaney Foods International UCWexford1071417

New to permits

83 employers took their first ever permit in April

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Air Products Ireland LimitedDublin8
Nijinsky Property Company LimitedKildare6
Bowline Construction LimitedDublin3
BlockaviationDublin2
Brow Experts LimitedDublin2
Sladeville LimitedWaterford2
Wrights of MarinoDublin2
Amundi Intermediation1
Anthony Neville Homes Ltd1
Aperee Living Camp Limited1

Where

Permits by county in April

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

Dublin (174 employers)
333
Limerick (8 employers)
56
Waterford (8 employers)
41
Cork (26 employers)
37
Galway (8 employers)
33
Tipperary (8 employers)
23
Mayo (5 employers)
22
Kildare (13 employers)
21
Kerry (3 employers)
20
Donegal (6 employers)
20

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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.