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Permit Pulse: April 2022

Ireland issued 4,012 employment permits in April 2022, up 16% on March and up 301% on April 2021.

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The month in numbers

April 2022 at a glance

This month

4,012

Up 16% on the month before

Same month last year

1,000

Up 301% on it

Year to date

12,287

Up 180% on 2021

Employers with a permit this month

1,065

209 for the first time

Twelve months to April

Apr
4,012
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 21
933

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 4,012 employment permits in April 2022, up 16% on March and up 301% on April 2021.

That brings the year to 12,287 permits, up 180% on the same point in 2021.

1,065 employers received at least one permit in the month, 209 of them for the first time.

Dawn Meats Ireland UC took the most, with 389.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,162), Waterford (552), Louth (263).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in April

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

#EmployerCountyAprMonth beforeApr 20212022 to date
1Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford38917395
2Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth23141288
3Kildare Chilling CompanyWaterford13100133
4Applied Materials Ireland LimitedKildare98310140
5Irish Country Meats (Sheepmeat) Unlimited69193107
6Tyholland Mushrooms LimitedMonaghan690069
7Ernst & Young6510422266
8Tiernaneill Mushrooms LimitedMonaghan58292110
9Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited CompanyOffaly560260
10Google Ireland LimitedDublin521078280
11Staunton Foods LimitedCork510262
12Slaney Foods International UCWexford44111059
13Monaghan Mushrooms Ireland UCMonaghan360036
14Drimbawn Mushrooms Ireland Unlimited Company336065
15Tullow Mushroom Growers LimitedCarlow3125078

New to permits

209 employers took their first ever permit in April

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Tyholland Mushrooms LimitedMonaghan69
Errigal Mushrooms LimitedMonaghan22
Needham Haulage LimitedWestmeath8
TH Mushrooms LtdMonaghan7
ANM Retail LtdTipperary5
Heffernan Tyres LtdKildare5
Quilter Insulation LimitedKerry5
Altimetrik LimitedDublin4
PrintglazeDublin4
Shun Construction LimitedDublin4

Where

Permits by county in April

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

Dublin (446 employers)
1,162
Waterford (10 employers)
552
Louth (9 employers)
263
Kildare (32 employers)
242
Cork (83 employers)
239
Monaghan (11 employers)
217
Wexford (14 employers)
108
Meath (18 employers)
80
Limerick (29 employers)
76
Offaly (5 employers)
75

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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.