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Permit Pulse: August 2023

Ireland issued 2,411 employment permits in August 2023, down 20% on July and down 32% on August 2022.

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The month in numbers

August 2023 at a glance

This month

2,411

Down 20% on the month before

Same month last year

3,536

Down 32% on it

Year to date

20,782

Down 25% on 2022

Employers with a permit this month

1,117

211 for the first time

Twelve months to August

Aug
2,411
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 22
3,423

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,411 employment permits in August 2023, down 20% on July and down 32% on August 2022.

That brings the year to 20,782 permits, down 25% on the same point in 2022.

1,117 employers received at least one permit in the month, 211 of them for the first time.

Applus Inspection Services Ireland Limited took the most, with 48.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,011), Cork (155), Kildare (105).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in August

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

#EmployerCountyAugMonth beforeAug 20222023 to date
1Applus Inspection Services Ireland LimitedDublin4800101
2Ernst & Young403954239
3Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited CompanyLimerick333488187
4WuXi Biologics Ireland LimitedLouth32232111
5Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath241125190
6Knockrobin Nursing Home LimitedWexford23221679
7TikTok Technology LimitedDublin231821106
8Carechoice Parnell Road Two Limited217028
9Donegal Meat Processors Unlimited CompanyDonegal2101621
10Johnson and Johnson Vision Care Ireland Unlimited Company2112294
11Cork University HospitalCork197321219
12Glan Agua Limited1914039
13University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick19630191
14Children's Health Ireland171914102
15Google Ireland LimitedDublin173592162

New to permits

211 employers took their first ever permit in August

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Carechoice Parnell Two Limited5
Memo Catering LimitedKildare5
DS Ventilation LimitedDublin4
Golden Spices LimitedKildare4
ICDS Constructors LimitedDublin4
M. Heffernan Engineering LimitedTipperary4
Arthur Nwanebu3
BOMEK Construction LimitedCork3
Sean Doyle Windows LimitedRoscommon3
Bespoke Spraying Solutions LimitedGalway2

Where

Permits by county in August

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

Dublin (472 employers)
1,011
Cork (73 employers)
155
Kildare (43 employers)
105
Limerick (25 employers)
80
Galway (32 employers)
76
Louth (13 employers)
58
Wexford (9 employers)
45
Donegal (9 employers)
37
Meath (11 employers)
37
Waterford (13 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.