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Permit Pulse: May 2022

Ireland issued 3,996 employment permits in May 2022, level with April and up 328% on May 2021.

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The month in numbers

May 2022 at a glance

This month

3,996

Level with the month before

Same month last year

933

Up 328% on it

Year to date

16,283

Up 206% on 2021

Employers with a permit this month

1,145

228 for the first time

Twelve months to May

May
3,996
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 21
1,307

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,996 employment permits in May 2022, level with April and up 328% on May 2021.

That brings the year to 16,283 permits, up 206% on the same point in 2021.

1,145 employers received at least one permit in the month, 228 of them for the first time.

Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited Company took the most, with 221.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,330), Kildare (438), Offaly (231).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in May

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

#EmployerCountyMayMonth beforeMay 20212022 to date
1Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited CompanyOffaly221560281
2Nua Healthcare Services LimitedKildare153140167
3Liffey Meats (Cavan) Unlimited CompanyCavan13852168
4Applied Materials Ireland LimitedKildare92980232
5Google Ireland LimitedDublin825212362
6Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford7938913474
7Intel Research and Development Ireland LimitedKildare661083
8Ernst & Young646510330
9Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin492312223
10Galway University HospitalGalway45615107
11Boston Scientific Ireland LimitedGalway443060
12Intel Ireland LimitedKildare3621091
13Accenture LimitedDublin352711153
14Amazon Data Services Ireland LimitedDublin33193113
15Kepak Cork Unlimited CompanyMeath331137

New to permits

228 employers took their first ever permit in May

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Drumbo Mushrooms LimitedMonaghan12
Kearns Fruit Farm LimitedWexford11
Teach Altranaís Charna Cuideachta Neamhtheoranta7
Reilly Mushrooms LtdWestmeath5
The Westport Plaza and Castle Court Hotel Resort5
Drilltech Drilling & Blasting Ltd4
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council4
Skibbereen Residential Care Centre Limited4
Taplen LimitedLimerick4
Alquil LimitedKerry3

Where

Permits by county in May

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

Dublin (460 employers)
1,330
Kildare (30 employers)
438
Offaly (6 employers)
231
Cavan (6 employers)
177
Cork (74 employers)
170
Galway (31 employers)
152
Waterford (15 employers)
136
Meath (22 employers)
126
Monaghan (8 employers)
84
Limerick (33 employers)
80

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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.