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Permit Pulse: October 2023

Ireland issued 2,544 employment permits in October 2023, up 15% on September and down 17% on October 2022.

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The month in numbers

October 2023 at a glance

This month

2,544

Up 15% on the month before

Same month last year

3,064

Down 17% on it

Year to date

25,529

Down 25% on 2022

Employers with a permit this month

1,199

245 for the first time

Twelve months to October

Oct
2,544
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 22
3,599

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,544 employment permits in October 2023, up 15% on September and down 17% on October 2022.

That brings the year to 25,529 permits, down 25% on the same point in 2022.

1,199 employers received at least one permit in the month, 245 of them for the first time.

Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited Company took the most, with 39.

Busiest counties: Dublin (948), Cork (164), Galway (136).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in October

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

#EmployerCountyOctMonth beforeOct 20222023 to date
1Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath395513284
2University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick39230253
3Galway University HospitalGalway291730231
4Google Ireland LimitedDublin281226202
5Children's Health Ireland24154141
6University Hospital WaterfordWaterford241513190
7Ernst & Young235565317
8TikTok Technology LimitedDublin221727145
9Deloitte Ireland LLP211824133
10Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited CompanyLimerick19917215
11Johnson and Johnson Vision Care Ireland Unlimited Company17105121
12KpmgDublin1761784
13Mater Misericordiae University HospitalDublin16712151
14Mater Private Network164047
15WuXi Biologics Ireland LimitedLouth1662133

New to permits

245 employers took their first ever permit in October

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Daisybelle Childcare LimitedDublin5
Wayfinders Pilot DACLimerick4
C2K Slipform Kerbing LimitedMeath3
Charlie's Childcare Limited3
Defusion (Ireland) LimitedOffaly3
G Holland LtdDublin3
Masterchefs Hospitality LimitedLimerick3
McGrath's Concrete Products LimitedClare3
O'Keeffe's Bakery Unlimited CompanyCork3
Villa Television Productions DACDublin3

Where

Permits by county in October

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

Dublin (454 employers)
948
Cork (86 employers)
164
Galway (46 employers)
136
Limerick (35 employers)
109
Kildare (46 employers)
95
Meath (26 employers)
78
Waterford (11 employers)
44
Louth (11 employers)
36
Tipperary (16 employers)
30
Kerry (9 employers)
26

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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.