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Permit Pulse: June 2023

Ireland issued 3,138 employment permits in June 2023, up 14% on May and down 19% on June 2022.

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The month in numbers

June 2023 at a glance

This month

3,138

Up 14% on the month before

Same month last year

3,877

Down 19% on it

Year to date

15,340

Down 24% on 2022

Employers with a permit this month

1,280

266 for the first time

Twelve months to June

Jun
3,138
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 22
3,956

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,138 employment permits in June 2023, up 14% on May and down 19% on June 2022.

That brings the year to 15,340 permits, down 24% on the same point in 2022.

1,280 employers received at least one permit in the month, 266 of them for the first time.

Intel Ireland Limited took the most, with 71.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,177), Kildare (171), Cork (158).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in June

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

#EmployerCountyJunMonth beforeJun 20222023 to date
1Intel Ireland LimitedKildare7172089
2Ernst & Young592540160
3University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick51140109
4Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath473121155
5Galway University HospitalGalway441050134
6University Hospital WaterfordWaterford381445121
7Applied Materials Ireland LimitedKildare30142112
8Google Ireland LimitedDublin28757110
9St. James's Hospital261014113
10Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital25162479
11St. Vincent's Healthcare GroupDublin243211146
12Beaumont Hospital222310145
13University Hospital KerryKerry22113751
14Cork University HospitalCork213421127
15Mayo University HospitalMayo2153252

New to permits

266 employers took their first ever permit in June

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Ballygorman Construction LimitedDonegal10
Anniversary Productions Designated Activity CompanyWicklow7
Parnell Road Two Limited7
Rushbell LimitedDublin6
Unity Healthcare Services LtdDublin6
Epic Healthcare Systems Ireland LimitedDublin5
Aberken LimitedDublin4
KEM Sheetsteel + Metal Fabrication Limited4
Kippane Transport LimitedCork4
Western Railway Ltd4

Where

Permits by county in June

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

Dublin (510 employers)
1,177
Kildare (33 employers)
171
Cork (88 employers)
158
Limerick (30 employers)
113
Galway (34 employers)
111
Meath (25 employers)
84
Waterford (17 employers)
81
Tipperary (17 employers)
52
Louth (9 employers)
43
Mayo (13 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.