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Permit Pulse: May 2023

Ireland issued 2,758 employment permits in May 2023, up 27% on April and down 31% on May 2022.

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The month in numbers

May 2023 at a glance

This month

2,758

Up 27% on the month before

Same month last year

3,996

Down 31% on it

Year to date

12,202

Down 25% on 2022

Employers with a permit this month

1,221

244 for the first time

Twelve months to May

May
2,758
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 22
3,877

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,758 employment permits in May 2023, up 27% on April and down 31% on May 2022.

That brings the year to 12,202 permits, down 25% on the same point in 2022.

1,221 employers received at least one permit in the month, 244 of them for the first time.

Tokyo Electron Europe Limited took the most, with 39.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,002), Cork (179), Kildare (130).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in May

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

#EmployerCountyMayMonth beforeMay 20222023 to date
1Tokyo Electron Europe LimitedKildare3916981
2Cork University HospitalCork342517106
3St. Vincent's Healthcare GroupDublin32135122
4Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath311016108
5WuXi Biologics Ireland LimitedLouth311539
6Ernst & Young25964101
7Costern Unlimited T/A Trinity Care241071
8Beaumont Hospital231026123
9Midland Regional Hospital at Tullamore231454
10Accenture LimitedDublin21133591
11Letterkenny University Hospital2141458
12Sligo University HospitalSligo208051
13Tallaght University Hospital1914962
14Mater Misericordiae University HospitalDublin189186
15Grant Thornton1771349

New to permits

244 employers took their first ever permit in May

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

EmployerCountyPermits
St. Luke's General Hospital12
Just Better Care LimitedWestmeath7
Anns Home Care Ire Limited6
FieldCore Service Solutions International LLCDublin6
Eirebus LimitedDublin5
Gama Construction Ireland LimitedDublin5
Lavina Nursing Agency LimitedMeath4
The Cheshire Foundation in IrelandDublin4
Virginia Park Lodge LimitedCavan4
ASCENX Technologies (Vietnam) Company LimitedDublin3

Where

Permits by county in May

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

Dublin (481 employers)
1,002
Cork (85 employers)
179
Kildare (43 employers)
130
Limerick (34 employers)
84
Meath (28 employers)
79
Galway (30 employers)
60
Waterford (11 employers)
56
Louth (11 employers)
53
Clare (16 employers)
38
Cavan (9 employers)
37

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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.