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Permit Pulse: September 2021

Ireland issued 1,588 employment permits in September 2021, up 15% on August and up 39% on September 2020.

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The month in numbers

September 2021 at a glance

This month

1,588

Up 15% on the month before

Same month last year

1,143

Up 39% on it

Year to date

11,116

Down 12% on 2020

Employers with a permit this month

785

165 for the first time

Twelve months to September

Sep
1,588
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 20
1,291

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 1,588 employment permits in September 2021, up 15% on August and up 39% on September 2020.

That brings the year to 11,116 permits, down 12% on the same point in 2020.

785 employers received at least one permit in the month, 165 of them for the first time.

Ernst & Young took the most, with 32.

Busiest counties: Dublin (713), Cork (90), Galway (55).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in September

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

#EmployerCountySepMonth beforeSep 20202021 to date
1Ernst & Young322911164
2Google Ireland LimitedDublin273118189
3University Hospital LimerickLimerick27443351
4Galway University HospitalGalway2332186
5Children's Health Ireland2274112
6Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin21121093
7Accenture LimitedDublin20111393
8Facebook Ireland Limited202017158
9Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin18112241
10Wild Atlantic Pictures LimitedDublin1721458
11Cork University HospitalCork16205156
12Microsoft Ireland Operations LimitedDublin157362
13TikTok Technology LimitedDublin133668
14Drimbawn Mushrooms Ireland Unlimited Company123021
15Perennial Freight LimitedWexford120812

New to permits

165 employers took their first ever permit in September

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Blair Environmental Services LimitedDublin3
P & G Callaghan Windows Limited3
Aperee Living Ballygunner LimitedCork2
Asian Bite limited2
Authorized Property Company Unlimited2
Chicken Cloud LimitedKerry2
DFC Humble Food Company LtdDublin2
Daikin Europe N VDublin2
Dermot Foley Landscape Architects LtdDublin2
Emmet Place Aroma LimitedCork2

Where

Permits by county in September

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

Dublin (316 employers)
713
Cork (55 employers)
90
Galway (23 employers)
55
Limerick (15 employers)
44
Kildare (13 employers)
29
Tipperary (13 employers)
25
Meath (16 employers)
24
Wexford (5 employers)
20
Wicklow (11 employers)
14
Westmeath (10 employers)
13

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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.