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Permit Pulse: July 2023

Ireland issued 3,031 employment permits in July 2023, down 3% on June and down 23% on July 2022.

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The month in numbers

July 2023 at a glance

This month

3,031

Down 3% on the month before

Same month last year

3,956

Down 23% on it

Year to date

18,371

Down 24% on 2022

Employers with a permit this month

1,214

241 for the first time

Twelve months to July

Jul
3,031
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 22
3,536

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,031 employment permits in July 2023, down 3% on June and down 23% on July 2022.

That brings the year to 18,371 permits, down 24% on the same point in 2022.

1,214 employers received at least one permit in the month, 241 of them for the first time.

Cork University Hospital took the most, with 73.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,115), Kildare (244), Cork (218).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in July

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

#EmployerCountyJulMonth beforeJul 20222023 to date
1Cork University HospitalCork732139200
2Nua Healthcare Services LimitedKildare6322176
3University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick63510172
4Intel Ireland LimitedKildare587144147
5Tokyo Electron Europe LimitedKildare532023154
6Galway University HospitalGalway424452176
7Ernst & Young395952199
8Google Ireland LimitedDublin352869145
9Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited CompanyLimerick341724154
10Beaumont Hospital272242172
11St. Vincent's Healthcare GroupDublin252414171
12Mater Private Network240024
13University Hospital WaterfordWaterford243822145
14WuXi Biologics Ireland LimitedLouth2317379
15Bartra OpCo (Beaumont NH) LimitedDublin2211057

New to permits

241 employers took their first ever permit in July

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Mater Private Network24
Circet Transmission LimitedDublin16
Carechoice Parnell Road Two Limited7
Ideal Care Services LimitedDublin5
FRS Maintenance LimitedCork4
Stephen Quinn Stone Mason LimitedGalway4
Travglen LimitedCork4
AOC Dane Taverns LimitedDublin3
Crowe Meats (Dundrum) LimitedTipperary3
Cry From The Sea Designated Activity CompanyGalway3

Where

Permits by county in July

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

Dublin (493 employers)
1,115
Kildare (35 employers)
244
Cork (80 employers)
218
Limerick (33 employers)
153
Galway (41 employers)
121
Louth (10 employers)
56
Meath (24 employers)
48
Wexford (8 employers)
47
Waterford (9 employers)
41
Tipperary (16 employers)
34

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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.