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Permit Pulse: February 2023

Ireland issued 2,192 employment permits in February 2023, down 13% on January and down 14% on February 2022.

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The month in numbers

February 2023 at a glance

This month

2,192

Down 13% on the month before

Same month last year

2,539

Down 14% on it

Year to date

4,719

Down 2% on 2022

Employers with a permit this month

966

193 for the first time

Twelve months to February

Feb
2,192
Jan 23
2,527
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 22
3,458

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,192 employment permits in February 2023, down 13% on January and down 14% on February 2022.

That brings the year to 4,719 permits, down 2% on the same point in 2022.

966 employers received at least one permit in the month, 193 of them for the first time.

St. Vincent's Healthcare Group took the most, with 40.

Busiest counties: Dublin (836), Cork (126), Galway (99).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in February

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

#EmployerCountyFebMonth beforeFeb 20222023 to date
1St. Vincent's Healthcare GroupDublin4092649
2Beaumont Hospital38241362
3Galway University HospitalGalway3711848
4Reign HealthcareLaois370037
5Google Ireland LimitedDublin35249059
6Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath2711428
7Ernst & Young25254950
8Mater Misericordiae University HospitalDublin24251149
9Mastercard Ireland LimitedDublin20211041
10Nua Healthcare Services LimitedKildare1957076
11St Lukes Hospital189327
12University Hospital WaterfordWaterford1815433
13Citi Bus LimitedGalway170017
14LSJ Care LtdMeath176123
15Applied Materials Ireland LimitedKildare15131128

New to permits

193 employers took their first ever permit in February

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Reign HealthcareLaois37
John DockrellDublin5
Killeen Engineering Ltd4
MCM Connect LimitedMonaghan4
MCF Tavern LtdMeath3
Michael Gannon Landscaping LtdRoscommon3
The Nightingale Agency International LimitedDublin3
A&W Trailers LimitedCarlow2
Albatross Catering LimitedWicklow2
Apple Operations International LimitedCork2

Where

Permits by county in February

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

Dublin (376 employers)
836
Cork (67 employers)
126
Galway (34 employers)
99
Meath (23 employers)
89
Limerick (28 employers)
80
Kildare (21 employers)
71
Laois (3 employers)
39
Waterford (9 employers)
32
Wexford (9 employers)
31
Mayo (16 employers)
31

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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.