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Permit Pulse: December 2021

Ireland issued 2,018 employment permits in December 2021, up 30% on November and up 78% on December 2020.

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The month in numbers

December 2021 at a glance

This month

2,018

Up 30% on the month before

Same month last year

1,134

Up 78% on it

Year to date

16,275

Down 1% on 2020

Employers with a permit this month

703

120 for the first time

Twelve months to December

Dec
2,018
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

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,018 employment permits in December 2021, up 30% on November and up 78% on December 2020.

That brings the year to 16,275 permits, down 1% on the same point in 2020.

703 employers received at least one permit in the month, 120 of them for the first time.

Ernst & Young took the most, with 55.

Busiest counties: Dublin (804), Cork (125), Kildare (67).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in December

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

#EmployerCountyDecMonth beforeDec 20202021 to date
1Ernst & Young551310264
2Children's Health Ireland352122191
3Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth32122115
4Beaumont Hospital312115167
5Google Ireland LimitedDublin313520299
6Galway University HospitalGalway30825229
7Accenture LimitedDublin284012189
8St Lukes Hospital2671190
9University Hospital WaterfordWaterford252717167
10Amazon Ireland Support Services LimitedCork247469
11KpmgDublin2220599
12Cavan & Monaghan HospitalCavan212084
13St. James's Hospital2186131
14TikTok Technology LimitedDublin211012109
15Microsoft Ireland Operations LimitedDublin20183110

New to permits

120 employers took their first ever permit in December

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Tokyo Electron Europe LimitedKildare16
Gongio Ireland LimitedDublin4
The Maltings and Granary LimitedOffaly4
Bartra Opco (Northwood NH) LimitedDublin3
The All Plastering Company LtdDublin3
UPMC Aut Even Hospital LimitedKilkenny3
BCM Murphy LtdLouth2
BMC Nursing Home LimitedTipperary2
Breffni Insulations LimitedCavan2
Cahill Software LtdDublin2

Where

Permits by county in December

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

Dublin (292 employers)
804
Cork (49 employers)
125
Kildare (20 employers)
67
Galway (19 employers)
57
Limerick (19 employers)
53
Louth (8 employers)
48
Waterford (8 employers)
35
Meath (14 employers)
29
Cavan (5 employers)
28
Mayo (5 employers)
22

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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.