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Permit Pulse: November 2022

Ireland issued 3,599 employment permits in November 2022, up 17% on October and up 132% on November 2021.

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The month in numbers

November 2022 at a glance

This month

3,599

Up 17% on the month before

Same month last year

1,553

Up 132% on it

Year to date

37,738

Up 165% on 2021

Employers with a permit this month

1,444

305 for the first time

Twelve months to November

Nov
3,599
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 21
2,018

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,599 employment permits in November 2022, up 17% on October and up 132% on November 2021.

That brings the year to 37,738 permits, up 165% on the same point in 2021.

1,444 employers received at least one permit in the month, 305 of them for the first time.

Ernst & Young took the most, with 63.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,681), Cork (249), Limerick (127).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in November

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

#EmployerCountyNovMonth beforeNov 20212022 to date
1Ernst & Young636513686
2Accenture LimitedDublin524940375
3Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath45132233
4Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin402716583
5St. Vincent's Healthcare GroupDublin3822152
6Mastercard Ireland LimitedDublin35272233
7Google Ireland LimitedDublin342635714
8University Hospital WaterfordWaterford341327203
9Deloitte Ireland LLP32248359
10Hamilton Park Care Centre LimitedDublin318442
11Amazon Ireland Support Services LimitedCork28287191
12Beaumont Hospital271221243
13Galway University HospitalGalway27308294
14HSE/University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick26200145
15Nua Healthcare Services LimitedKildare2510223

New to permits

305 employers took their first ever permit in November

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

EmployerCountyPermits
WL Woodlawn Care Services LimitedDublin13
Outsurance Designated Activity CompanyDublin8
University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick6
Pallas Taverns LimitedCork5
Senior Care Plus LimitedWexford4
The Hospital for the Relief of Poor Lying-In Women DublinDublin4
Ashgrove Wholesale LtdLimerick3
Costern Unlimited T/A Trinity Care3
Farnham Hospitality LimitedDublin3
Its 2 Eat LimitedDublin3

Where

Permits by county in November

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

Dublin (603 employers)
1,681
Cork (91 employers)
249
Limerick (51 employers)
127
Kildare (39 employers)
109
Galway (42 employers)
106
Meath (32 employers)
96
Waterford (15 employers)
84
Louth (11 employers)
44
Mayo (18 employers)
42
Kerry (14 employers)
36

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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.