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Permit Pulse: June 2022

Ireland issued 3,877 employment permits in June 2022, down 3% on May and up 197% on June 2021.

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The month in numbers

June 2022 at a glance

This month

3,877

Down 3% on the month before

Same month last year

1,307

Up 197% on it

Year to date

20,160

Up 204% on 2021

Employers with a permit this month

1,263

314 for the first time

Twelve months to June

Jun
3,877
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 21
1,529

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,877 employment permits in June 2022, down 3% on May and up 197% on June 2021.

That brings the year to 20,160 permits, up 204% on the same point in 2021.

1,263 employers received at least one permit in the month, 314 of them for the first time.

Dawn Meats Ireland UC took the most, with 136.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,354), Meath (262), Waterford (223).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in June

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

#EmployerCountyJunMonth beforeJun 20212022 to date
1Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford1367955610
2Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin704914293
3McCarren Meats Unlimited CompanyMeath605276
4Google Ireland LimitedDublin578226419
5Kepak Cork Unlimited CompanyMeath5633093
6Slaney Foods International UCWexford54633119
7University Hospital LimerickLimerick511232139
8Galway University HospitalGalway504526157
9Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited CompanyOffaly462211327
10University Hospital WaterfordWaterford45111397
11Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth42314361
12Ernst & Young406411370
13University Hospital KerryKerry37212101
14Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin36306159
15Liffey Meats (Cavan) Unlimited CompanyCavan361380204

New to permits

314 employers took their first ever permit in June

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

EmployerCountyPermits
First Up SluWestmeath15
Timbertoes Unlimited CompanyClare11
Aidan Kinsella10
Wall Steel LimitedWexford9
HSE/University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick7
Garden of Eden Herbs LimitedDublin5
LMH Engineering LimitedWicklow5
Divilly's LimitedGalway4
Douglas Taverns LtdCork4
Genesys Cloud Services Ireland LimitedGalway4

Where

Permits by county in June

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

Dublin (487 employers)
1,354
Meath (32 employers)
262
Waterford (13 employers)
223
Cork (82 employers)
181
Limerick (29 employers)
134
Kildare (34 employers)
129
Galway (34 employers)
118
Wexford (7 employers)
99
Cavan (10 employers)
75
Kerry (15 employers)
59

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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.