The month in numbers

March 2023 at a glance

This month

2,546

Up 16% on the month before

Same month last year

3,458

Down 26% on it

Year to date

7,265

Down 12% on 2022

Employers with a permit this month

1,034

204 for the first time

Twelve months to March

4k

Apr 22

4k

May

3.9k

Jun

4k

Jul

3.5k

Aug

3.4k

Sep

3.1k

Oct

3.6k

Nov

2.2k

Dec

2.5k

Jan 23

2.2k

Feb

2.5k

Mar

2,546

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 22

4,012

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,546 employment permits in March 2023, up 16% on February and down 26% on March 2022.

That brings the year to 7,265 permits, down 12% on the same point in 2022.

1,034 employers received at least one permit in the month, 204 of them for the first time.

Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited Company took the most, with 76.

Busiest counties: Dublin (810), Meath (138), Cork (131).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in March

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

#	Employer	County	Mar	Month before	Mar 2022	2023 to date
1	Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited Company	Offaly	76	0	0	76
2	Liffey Meats (Cavan) Unlimited Company	Cavan	49	0	4	49
3	Applus Inspection Services Ireland Limited	Dublin	48	0	0	48
4	Carton Brothers Unlimited Company		43	0	15	43
5	Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited Company	Meath	39	27	18	67
6	St. James's Hospital		33	13	14	68
7	Costern Unlimited T/A Trinity Care		31	8	0	46
8	Monaghan Mushrooms Ireland UC	Monaghan	30	6	0	36
9	Galway University Hospital	Galway	29	37	5	77
10	Beaumont Hospital		28	38	23	90
11	St. Vincent's Healthcare Group	Dublin	28	40	25	77
12	Accenture Limited	Dublin	22	11	34	57
13	Dawn Meats Ireland UC	Waterford	21	0	1	21
14	Errigal Mushrooms Limited	Monaghan	20	0	0	20
15	Applied Materials Ireland Limited	Kildare	19	15	31	47

New to permits

204 employers took their first ever permit in March

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

Employer	County	Permits
Homecare & Health Services (Ireland) Limited		13
Arnotree Limited	Meath	10
Applewood Homecare Limited	Dublin	5
Commonstown Racing Stables Ltd	Kildare	5
Hatcon Limited	Meath	5
Ponderview Ltd	Cork	5
Asian Food Hub Limited	Kildare	3
Boogran Limited	Dublin	3
Portamod Limited	Louth	3
Southern Milling Unlimited Company	Cork	3

Where

Permits by county in March

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

Dublin (377 employers)

810

Meath (34 employers)

138

Cork (75 employers)

131

Kildare (29 employers)

97

Galway (36 employers)

94

Monaghan (9 employers)

84

Offaly (5 employers)

80

Limerick (32 employers)

73

Wexford (9 employers)

62

Tipperary (30 employers)

56

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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.

Permit Pulse: March 2023