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Permit Pulse: November 2021

Ireland issued 1,553 employment permits in November 2021, down 2% on October and up 14% on November 2020.

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The month in numbers

November 2021 at a glance

This month

1,553

Down 2% on the month before

Same month last year

1,366

Up 14% on it

Year to date

14,257

Down 7% on 2020

Employers with a permit this month

609

90 for the first time

Twelve months to November

Nov
1,553
Oct
1,588
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 20
1,134

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 1,553 employment permits in November 2021, down 2% on October and up 14% on November 2020.

That brings the year to 14,257 permits, down 7% on the same point in 2020.

609 employers received at least one permit in the month, 90 of them for the first time.

Accenture Limited took the most, with 40.

Busiest counties: Dublin (716), Cork (75), Waterford (45).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in November

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

#EmployerCountyNovMonth beforeNov 20202021 to date
1Accenture LimitedDublin402814161
2Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited CompanyOffaly361356
3Google Ireland LimitedDublin354414268
4Facebook Ireland Limited32266216
5Grant Thornton299444
6University Hospital WaterfordWaterford27828142
7Blackrock Clinic Unlimited CompanyDublin240034
8Beaumont Hospital21815136
9Children's Health Ireland21236156
10KpmgDublin2024377
11Cognizant Technology Solutions Ireland LimitedDublin196763
12LM Ericsson LimitedDublin199460
13Microsoft Ireland Operations LimitedDublin1810790
14Kildorough Mushrooms LimitedCavan171022
15Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin16132270

New to permits

90 employers took their first ever permit in November

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Abbey Machinery LimitedTipperary4
Tegus LimitedDublin4
AmTrust Management Services LimitedDublin3
Don O'Malley and Partners Limited2
IDenTV LtdLaois2
Out-Sourcing Technology Inc.2
Roskell Transport LtdDublin2
AGL Haulage Ltd1
Abbey Haven Care Centre Nursing Home Ltd1
Advantio Limited1

Where

Permits by county in November

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

Dublin (277 employers)
716
Cork (33 employers)
75
Waterford (6 employers)
45
Limerick (16 employers)
38
Offaly (1 employers)
36
Kildare (12 employers)
33
Cavan (8 employers)
31
Galway (12 employers)
27
Wexford (5 employers)
22
Tipperary (7 employers)
17

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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.