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Permit Pulse: September 2023

Ireland issued 2,203 employment permits in September 2023, down 9% on August and down 36% on September 2022.

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The month in numbers

September 2023 at a glance

This month

2,203

Down 9% on the month before

Same month last year

3,423

Down 36% on it

Year to date

22,985

Down 26% on 2022

Employers with a permit this month

1,110

219 for the first time

Twelve months to September

3.1k

Oct 22

3.6k

Nov

2.2k

Dec

2.5k

Jan 23

2.2k

Feb

2.5k

Mar

2.2k

Apr

2.8k

May

3.1k

Jun

Jul

2.4k

Aug

2.2k

Sep

2,203

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 22

3,064

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,203 employment permits in September 2023, down 9% on August and down 36% on September 2022.

That brings the year to 22,985 permits, down 26% on the same point in 2022.

1,110 employers received at least one permit in the month, 219 of them for the first time.

Ernst & Young took the most, with 55.

Busiest counties: Dublin (926), Cork (135), Meath (94).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in September

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

#	Employer	County	Sep	Month before	Sep 2022	2023 to date
1	Ernst & Young		55	40	82	294
2	Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited Company	Meath	55	24	26	245
3	University Limerick Hospitals Group	Limerick	23	19	0	214
4	Amazon Ireland Support Services Limited	Cork	18	12	21	52
5	Deloitte Ireland LLP		18	12	62	112
6	Galway University Hospital	Galway	17	9	11	202
7	TikTok Technology Limited	Dublin	17	23	22	123
8	Accenture Limited	Dublin	16	14	35	155
9	Children's Health Ireland		15	17	13	117
10	University Hospital Waterford	Waterford	15	6	21	166
11	Applied Materials Ireland Limited	Kildare	13	4	11	141
12	Electricity Supply Board		13	14	9	84
13	Barry's Coaches Limited	Cork	12	0	0	12
14	Google Ireland Limited	Dublin	12	17	74	174
15	Learghusa Limited	Dublin	12	8	0	27

New to permits

219 employers took their first ever permit in September

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

Employer	County	Permits
Barry's Coaches Limited	Cork	12
Glanua Ireland Limited	Waterford	8
Ciaran Kerr and Kevin Jennings		7
Bartra OpCo (Clondalkin NH) Limited	Dublin	4
Athlone Apache Pizza Limited	Offaly	3
Dewan Hotels Limited	Galway	3
Glebo Castle Farms Limited	Tipperary	3
7 Day Auto Limited	Dublin	2
Abir Private Limited	Dublin	2
Andhra Bhavan Limited	Meath	2

Where

Permits by county in September

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

Dublin (465 employers)

926

Cork (62 employers)

135

Meath (25 employers)

Limerick (34 employers)

Galway (27 employers)

Kildare (31 employers)

Waterford (13 employers)

Louth (8 employers)

Clare (15 employers)

Kerry (14 employers)

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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.