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Permit Pulse: November 2023

Ireland issued 3,005 employment permits in November 2023, up 18% on October and down 17% on November 2022.

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The month in numbers

November 2023 at a glance

This month

3,005

Up 18% on the month before

Same month last year

3,599

Down 17% on it

Year to date

28,534

Down 24% on 2022

Employers with a permit this month

1,334

283 for the first time

Twelve months to November

Nov
3,005
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 22
2,217

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,005 employment permits in November 2023, up 18% on October and down 17% on November 2022.

That brings the year to 28,534 permits, down 24% on the same point in 2022.

1,334 employers received at least one permit in the month, 283 of them for the first time.

Cork University Hospital took the most, with 50.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,152), Cork (264), Galway (118).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in November

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

#EmployerCountyNovMonth beforeNov 20222023 to date
1Cork University HospitalCork501414291
2WuXi Biologics Ireland LimitedLouth41162174
3Children's Health Ireland40247181
4Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath393945323
5Barry's Coaches LimitedCork360048
6Google Ireland LimitedDublin342834236
7Ernst & Young282363345
8Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited CompanyLimerick241919239
9Costern Unlimited CompanyDublin230152
10Galway University HospitalGalway232927254
11St. Vincent's Healthcare GroupDublin231138219
12TikTok Technology LimitedDublin222219167
13Connolly Hospital205566
14Deloitte Ireland LLP202132153
15University Hospital WaterfordWaterford202434210

New to permits

283 employers took their first ever permit in November

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Mannok Pack LtdCavan9
Fikados Care Services LimitedCork6
Terra Glen Residential Care Services LimitedMeath6
Damh Entertainment LimitedDublin5
Lynmara Healthcare LimitedGalway5
Banner Healthcare LimitedClare4
Demeter Ventures LimitedKerry4
PD Smart Homes LimitedKildare4
Portlaoise Logistics LimitedLaois4
Ruben Pigs LimitedCarlow4

Where

Permits by county in November

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

Dublin (504 employers)
1,152
Cork (97 employers)
264
Galway (45 employers)
118
Meath (33 employers)
95
Kildare (40 employers)
89
Limerick (36 employers)
87
Louth (10 employers)
69
Waterford (14 employers)
47
Clare (18 employers)
45
Tipperary (16 employers)
39

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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.