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Permit Pulse: March 2022

Ireland issued 3,458 employment permits in March 2022, up 36% on February and up 230% on March 2021.

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The month in numbers

March 2022 at a glance

This month

3,458

Up 36% on the month before

Same month last year

1,049

Up 230% on it

Year to date

8,275

Up 145% on 2021

Employers with a permit this month

1,192

267 for the first time

Twelve months to March

Mar
3,458
Feb
2,539
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 21
1,000

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,458 employment permits in March 2022, up 36% on February and up 230% on March 2021.

That brings the year to 8,275 permits, up 145% on the same point in 2021.

1,192 employers received at least one permit in the month, 267 of them for the first time.

Google Ireland Limited took the most, with 107.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,672), Cork (162), Kildare (124).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in March

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

#EmployerCountyMarMonth beforeMar 20212022 to date
1Google Ireland LimitedDublin1079022228
2Ernst & Young1044910201
3Walsh Mushrooms Golden Unlimited CompanyWexford920092
4Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin745815151
5Meta Platforms Ireland LimitedDublin4717065
6Microsoft Ireland Operations LimitedDublin4631289
7Deloitte Ireland LLP4235793
8Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin3527673
9Accenture LimitedDublin34371591
10Applied Materials Ireland LimitedKildare3111042
11Microsoft Ireland Research Unlimited CompanyDublin3017152
12Amazon Data Services Ireland LimitedDublin2922461
13Tiernaneill Mushrooms LimitedMonaghan2923052
14Grant Thornton2717068
15Cognizant Technology Solutions Ireland LimitedDublin2521279

New to permits

267 employers took their first ever permit in March

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Walsh Mushrooms Golden Unlimited CompanyWexford92
Connolly Meats LimitedMonaghan14
White Hart Mushrooms LtdCavan12
Laois Scaffolding Services LimitedLaois11
Abbeylands Nursing Home & Alzheimers Unit Limited6
Mac-Fab Systems LtdMonaghan6
Mount Juliet Unlimited CompanyDublin6
Labarre LtdLimerick5
Aisling Dino LimitedKerry4
Clancys Bar Cork LimitedCork4

Where

Permits by county in March

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

Dublin (513 employers)
1,672
Cork (69 employers)
162
Kildare (31 employers)
124
Wexford (7 employers)
116
Limerick (35 employers)
69
Monaghan (5 employers)
68
Meath (21 employers)
57
Galway (30 employers)
57
Cavan (12 employers)
42
Kerry (10 employers)
33

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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.