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Permit Pulse: June 2021

Ireland issued 1,307 employment permits in June 2021, up 40% on May and down 17% on June 2020.

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The month in numbers

June 2021 at a glance

This month

1,307

Up 40% on the month before

Same month last year

1,583

Down 17% on it

Year to date

6,623

Down 27% on 2020

Employers with a permit this month

428

59 for the first time

Twelve months to June

Jun
1,307
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 20
1,405

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 1,307 employment permits in June 2021, up 40% on May and down 17% on June 2020.

That brings the year to 6,623 permits, down 27% on the same point in 2020.

428 employers received at least one permit in the month, 59 of them for the first time.

Dawn Meats Ireland UC took the most, with 55.

Busiest counties: Dublin (397), Waterford (82), Cork (79).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in June

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

#EmployerCountyJunMonth beforeJun 20202021 to date
1Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford55135688
2Slaney Foods International UCWexford333153
3University Hospital LimerickLimerick323023208
4Facebook Ireland Limited292525106
5Cork University HospitalCork27193871
6Galway University HospitalGalway26151491
7Google Ireland LimitedDublin261229111
8Microsoft Ireland Operations LimitedDublin251338
9Letterkenny University Hospital2321959
10Sligo University HospitalSligo23121644
11Mullingar Regional Hospital2291452
12Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital21143974
13Children's Health Ireland2021650
14Mayo University HospitalMayo20121858
15Cavan & Monaghan HospitalCavan192021

New to permits

59 employers took their first ever permit in June

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Health Service Executive CHO1 Cavan MonaghanCavan3
FNZ (Europe) Designated Activity CompanyDublin2
Pamukkale Trading Co. LimitedCarlow2
Victoria View Developments LimitedCork2
2K Games Dublin LimitedDublin1
Advanced Safety Management Ltd.Cork1
Alex Q Construction Limited1
Allen Jacobs Estates Limited1
Ardun Investments LimitedDublin1
Asad Ali Bhatti1

Where

Permits by county in June

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

Dublin (164 employers)
397
Waterford (4 employers)
82
Cork (35 employers)
79
Limerick (16 employers)
58
Wexford (4 employers)
51
Galway (7 employers)
35
Cavan (5 employers)
27
Mayo (6 employers)
26
Sligo (2 employers)
24
Tipperary (8 employers)
21

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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.