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Permit Pulse: September 2022

Ireland issued 3,423 employment permits in September 2022, down 3% on August and up 116% on September 2021.

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The month in numbers

September 2022 at a glance

This month

3,423

Down 3% on the month before

Same month last year

1,588

Up 116% on it

Year to date

31,075

Up 180% on 2021

Employers with a permit this month

1,330

259 for the first time

Twelve months to September

Sep
3,423
Aug
3,536
Jul
3,956
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 21
1,588

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,423 employment permits in September 2022, down 3% on August and up 116% on September 2021.

That brings the year to 31,075 permits, up 180% on the same point in 2021.

1,330 employers received at least one permit in the month, 259 of them for the first time.

Ernst & Young took the most, with 82.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,645), Cork (214), Kildare (112).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in September

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

#EmployerCountySepMonth beforeSep 20212022 to date
1Ernst & Young825432558
2Google Ireland LimitedDublin749227654
3Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin637518516
4Deloitte Ireland LLP62519303
5Applus Inspection Services Ireland LimitedDublin440044
6Accenture LimitedDublin353220274
7Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin353821293
8KpmgDublin351811148
9Mastercard Ireland LimitedDublin35321171
10Microsoft Ireland Research Unlimited CompanyDublin28248239
11Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath26251175
12Version 1 Software Limited2413669
13Letterkenny University Hospital23149165
14TikTok Technology LimitedDublin222113169
15Amazon Ireland Support Services LimitedCork21232135

New to permits

259 employers took their first ever permit in September

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Applus Inspection Services Ireland LimitedDublin44
Simpsons's Hospital8
Ennis Road Care FacilityLimerick6
Brookridge Farm LtdDublin4
Dunlavin Nursing Home LtdMeath4
Flanagans Nursing Home LimitedLeitrim4
Sandman UK and Ireland4
Carrickdale Enterprises LimitedLouth3
8 West Revolution Technologies LimitedCork2
Charter Medical Group LimitedDublin2

Where

Permits by county in September

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

Dublin (544 employers)
1,645
Cork (92 employers)
214
Kildare (40 employers)
112
Limerick (35 employers)
80
Galway (37 employers)
80
Meath (23 employers)
80
Waterford (16 employers)
44
Tipperary (14 employers)
38
Wexford (15 employers)
36
Mayo (11 employers)
32

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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.