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Permit Pulse: January 2022

Ireland issued 2,278 employment permits in January 2022, up 13% on December and up 66% on January 2021.

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The month in numbers

January 2022 at a glance

This month

2,278

Up 13% on the month before

Same month last year

1,369

Up 66% on it

Year to date

2,278

Up 66% on 2021

Employers with a permit this month

682

104 for the first time

Twelve months to January

Jan 22
2,278
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 21
965

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,278 employment permits in January 2022, up 13% on December and up 66% on January 2021.

That brings the year to 2,278 permits, up 66% on the same point in 2021.

682 employers received at least one permit in the month, 104 of them for the first time.

University Hospital Limerick took the most, with 54.

Busiest counties: Dublin (738), Cork (148), Limerick (85).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in January

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

#EmployerCountyJanMonth beforeJan 20212022 to date
1University Hospital LimerickLimerick54154154
2Ernst & Young48551748
3Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath460046
4Galway University HospitalGalway43302143
5Cork University HospitalCork41161241
6Mayo University HospitalMayo3812438
7Letterkenny University Hospital37132037
8Children's Health Ireland34351134
9Tallaght University Hospital3417234
10Cognizant Technology Solutions Ireland LimitedDublin3315233
11Google Ireland LimitedDublin31313031
12Cavan & Monaghan HospitalCavan3021030
13University Hospital KerryKerry30121130
14Beaumont Hospital2931929
15Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital2871128

New to permits

104 employers took their first ever permit in January

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

EmployerCountyPermits
C J Meats (Ireland) Ltd7
Rigotec International LimitedDublin7
VIEC ltdDublin7
Madhu Foods LimitedLouth3
ASM Service Support Ireland Limited2
CWPA LimitedDublin2
Coal Quay Restaurants Ltd t/a Cornerstore CorkCork2
Cylynt LimitedCork2
J.P. Morgan S.E. - Dublin BranchDublin2
Muhammad Waseem Saeed2

Where

Permits by county in January

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

Dublin (282 employers)
738
Cork (55 employers)
148
Limerick (13 employers)
85
Galway (17 employers)
84
Meath (14 employers)
67
Cavan (7 employers)
51
Mayo (8 employers)
48
Waterford (8 employers)
43
Louth (7 employers)
37
Wexford (10 employers)
36

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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.