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Permit Pulse: May 2021

Ireland issued 933 employment permits in May 2021, down 7% on April and down 45% on May 2020.

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The month in numbers

May 2021 at a glance

This month

933

Down 7% on the month before

Same month last year

1,703

Down 45% on it

Year to date

5,316

Down 29% on 2020

Employers with a permit this month

434

69 for the first time

Twelve months to May

May
933
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 20
1,583

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 933 employment permits in May 2021, down 7% on April and down 45% on May 2020.

That brings the year to 5,316 permits, down 29% on the same point in 2020.

434 employers received at least one permit in the month, 69 of them for the first time.

University Hospital Limerick took the most, with 30.

Busiest counties: Dublin (296), Cork (77), Limerick (54).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in May

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

#EmployerCountyMayMonth beforeMay 20202021 to date
1University Hospital LimerickLimerick304295176
2Staunton Foods LimitedCork282045
3Facebook Ireland Limited25163377
4Cork University HospitalCork1922444
5Galway University HospitalGalway15244765
6Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital14143453
7Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford1372333
8Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin1299189
9Beaumont Hospital12102136
10Google Ireland LimitedDublin1283085
11Mayo University HospitalMayo12183038
12Sligo University HospitalSligo1213421
13Accenture LimitedDublin1153549
14Portiuncula University Hospital11101631
15Ernst & Young1022876

New to permits

69 employers took their first ever permit in May

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Cavan & Monaghan HospitalCavan2
Chitwan Limited2
DSH Catering LimitedDublin2
Hyde & Seek Glasnevin Limited2
Inua Hospitality General Partner LimitedCork2
Inua Hospitality Series 2 LimitedCork2
Ted & Lloyd Ltd2
9th Impact Ltd.Galway1
A.S. Claddagh Traders LimitedMayo1
B.H. Associates Ltd.Clare1

Where

Permits by county in May

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

Dublin (170 employers)
296
Cork (20 employers)
77
Limerick (16 employers)
54
Waterford (7 employers)
27
Galway (10 employers)
24
Meath (10 employers)
18
Mayo (5 employers)
16
Sligo (2 employers)
13
Louth (5 employers)
12
Kerry (3 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.