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Permit Pulse: December 2022

Ireland issued 2,217 employment permits in December 2022, down 38% on November and up 10% on December 2021.

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The month in numbers

December 2022 at a glance

This month

2,217

Down 38% on the month before

Same month last year

2,018

Up 10% on it

Year to date

39,955

Up 145% on 2021

Employers with a permit this month

997

187 for the first time

Twelve months to December

Dec
2,217
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

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,217 employment permits in December 2022, down 38% on November and up 10% on December 2021.

That brings the year to 39,955 permits, up 145% on the same point in 2021.

997 employers received at least one permit in the month, 187 of them for the first time.

Radley Engineering Limited took the most, with 59.

Busiest counties: Dublin (902), Cork (160), Waterford (85).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in December

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

#EmployerCountyDecMonth beforeDec 20212022 to date
1Radley Engineering LimitedWaterford5921081
2Monaghan Mushrooms Ireland UCMonaghan4330120
3Ernst & Young286355714
4Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin242210354
5Accenture LimitedDublin225228397
6Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited CompanyLimerick221911272
7Beaumont Hospital212731264
8Children's Health Ireland20735156
9Google Ireland LimitedDublin203431734
10Tata Consultancy Services LimitedDublin19155143
11The Rehab Group CLGDublin193050
12Tallaght University Hospital181417173
13HSE - Cork Kerry Community HealthcareCork1601136
14Deloitte Ireland LLP153211374
15Galway University HospitalGalway152730309

New to permits

187 employers took their first ever permit in December

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

EmployerCountyPermits
WMC Concrete LimitedDublin5
Blinder Films Ltd4
JWF Farms Ltd4
Cork Kerry Community HealthcareCork3
Lintbrook LimitedLimerick3
Sidney McElhinneyDublin3
ZFB Co & Retail Limited3
Alutec Facades Limited2
Blacklion Produce LimitedMeath2
Blackpitts Hospitality LimitedDublin2

Where

Permits by county in December

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

Dublin (394 employers)
902
Cork (68 employers)
160
Waterford (8 employers)
85
Limerick (23 employers)
73
Galway (29 employers)
57
Kildare (18 employers)
55
Meath (23 employers)
45
Monaghan (2 employers)
44
Mayo (13 employers)
27
Tipperary (12 employers)
26

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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.