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Permit Pulse: April 2023

Ireland issued 2,179 employment permits in April 2023, down 14% on March and down 46% on April 2022.

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The month in numbers

April 2023 at a glance

This month

2,179

Down 14% on the month before

Same month last year

4,012

Down 46% on it

Year to date

9,444

Down 23% on 2022

Employers with a permit this month

1,012

177 for the first time

Twelve months to April

Apr
2,179
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 22
3,996

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,179 employment permits in April 2023, down 14% on March and down 46% on April 2022.

That brings the year to 9,444 permits, down 23% on the same point in 2022.

1,012 employers received at least one permit in the month, 177 of them for the first time.

Dawn Meats Ireland UC took the most, with 51.

Busiest counties: Dublin (714), Cork (140), Kildare (103).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in April

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

#EmployerCountyAprMonth beforeApr 20222023 to date
1Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford512138972
2JJ Kavanagh & Sons Limited321033
3University Hospital WaterfordWaterford288969
4Liffey Meats (Cavan) Unlimited CompanyCavan2649575
5Cork University HospitalCork25102072
6Tiernaneill Mushrooms LimitedMonaghan2505825
7Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited CompanyLimerick24122492
8Atlantic Aviation Group LimitedClare230035
9Applied Materials Ireland LimitedKildare21199868
10Mercy University Hospital160134
11Staunton Foods LimitedCork16115127
12Tokyo Electron Europe LimitedKildare166842
13Irish Casing Company Limited150320
14Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited CompanyOffaly15765691
15TikTok Technology LimitedDublin157842

New to permits

177 employers took their first ever permit in April

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

EmployerCountyPermits
PR Marriott Drilling Ireland Limited8
Tempowell LtdMeath8
Waterfront Inns LimitedDublin5
Michael O’Callaghan Racing Limited4
All In Care LimitedDublin3
Bernard Kavanagh & Sons Ltd3
Bernard Kavanagh and Sons Limited3
BDOZ88 LimitedDublin2
Finnis Contracts LimitedCork2
H & J Dairy Farm Ltd2

Where

Permits by county in April

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

Dublin (391 employers)
714
Cork (63 employers)
140
Kildare (30 employers)
103
Waterford (11 employers)
96
Meath (33 employers)
80
Limerick (23 employers)
69
Monaghan (8 employers)
47
Clare (18 employers)
46
Galway (31 employers)
45
Tipperary (17 employers)
38

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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.