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Permit Pulse: August 2021

Ireland issued 1,376 employment permits in August 2021, down 10% on July and up 32% on August 2020.

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The month in numbers

August 2021 at a glance

This month

1,376

Down 10% on the month before

Same month last year

1,046

Up 32% on it

Year to date

9,528

Down 17% on 2020

Employers with a permit this month

676

107 for the first time

Twelve months to August

Aug
1,376
Jul
1,529
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 20
1,143

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 1,376 employment permits in August 2021, down 10% on July and up 32% on August 2020.

That brings the year to 9,528 permits, down 17% on the same point in 2020.

676 employers received at least one permit in the month, 107 of them for the first time.

University Hospital Limerick took the most, with 44.

Busiest counties: Dublin (579), Cork (85), Limerick (69).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in August

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

#EmployerCountyAugMonth beforeAug 20202021 to date
1University Hospital LimerickLimerick44722324
2Google Ireland LimitedDublin312030162
3Ernst & Young29162132
4Castle Ceilings & Partitions Ltd210144
5Wild Atlantic Pictures LimitedDublin214441
6Cork University HospitalCork20492140
7Facebook Ireland Limited201214138
8Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital20340128
9Cognizant Technology Solutions Ireland LimitedDublin154338
10Letterkenny University Hospital15622136
11Beaumont Hospital13435105
12HSE CHO Dublin North City and CountyDublin130026
13Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin125672
14Accenture LimitedDublin1181773
15Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin1197223

New to permits

107 employers took their first ever permit in August

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Lucey Transport Logistics LimitedDublin5
Brothar Entertainment LimitedDublin4
Bechtel Infrastructure Ireland LimitedDublin3
Drumhill Inn LtdDonegal2
Glenn Anthony Hospitality LimitedDublin2
MCGA LimitedDublin2
Musarubra Ireland LimitedDublin2
Skylark Freedom LtdCork2
Vizor Technology LimitedDublin2
3d Neworld Additiveway Limited1

Where

Permits by county in August

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

Dublin (286 employers)
579
Cork (43 employers)
85
Limerick (17 employers)
69
Meath (11 employers)
24
Galway (16 employers)
24
Wexford (7 employers)
20
Kildare (16 employers)
19
Tipperary (8 employers)
17
Waterford (6 employers)
16
Offaly (6 employers)
14

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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.