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Permit Pulse: October 2022

Ireland issued 3,064 employment permits in October 2022, down 10% on September and up 93% on October 2021.

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The month in numbers

October 2022 at a glance

This month

3,064

Down 10% on the month before

Same month last year

1,588

Up 93% on it

Year to date

34,139

Up 169% on 2021

Employers with a permit this month

1,394

290 for the first time

Twelve months to October

Oct
3,064
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 21
1,553

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,064 employment permits in October 2022, down 10% on September and up 93% on October 2021.

That brings the year to 34,139 permits, up 169% on the same point in 2021.

1,394 employers received at least one permit in the month, 290 of them for the first time.

Ernst & Young took the most, with 65.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,398), Cork (210), Galway (103).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in October

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

#EmployerCountyOctMonth beforeOct 20212022 to date
1Ernst & Young658232623
2Accenture LimitedDublin493528323
3Galway University HospitalGalway30115267
4Amazon Ireland Support Services LimitedCork28217163
5Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin276313543
6Mastercard Ireland LimitedDublin27352198
7TikTok Technology LimitedDublin272210196
8Google Ireland LimitedDublin267444680
9The Rehab Group CLGDublin260028
10Deloitte Ireland LLP246214327
11HSE/University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick20140119
12Allied Irish Banks, Public Limited CompanyDublin1912182
13MHLB LimitedDublin192024
14Monaghan Mushrooms Ireland UCMonaghan190074
15Grant Thornton18209183

New to permits

290 employers took their first ever permit in October

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Swim Max LimitedLimerick12
Cainte Entertainment LimitedDublin6
Smart New Homes Solutions LimitedGalway6
Enforge Exchequer St. LimitedDublin4
Hossain BD Food LimitedKilkenny4
Bartra OPO (Northwood NH) limited3
BioPharma Engineering Limited3
Byrne Mech Ltd3
Dott Treasa Holdings LtdKerry3
H & R Plastering Limited3

Where

Permits by county in October

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

Dublin (578 employers)
1,398
Cork (96 employers)
210
Galway (31 employers)
103
Limerick (28 employers)
95
Kildare (38 employers)
92
Meath (34 employers)
65
Westmeath (15 employers)
43
Mayo (12 employers)
35
Kilkenny (16 employers)
31
Tipperary (17 employers)
29

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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.