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Permit Pulse: December 2023

Ireland issued 2,447 employment permits in December 2023, down 19% on November and up 10% on December 2022.

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The month in numbers

December 2023 at a glance

This month

2,447

Down 19% on the month before

Same month last year

2,217

Up 10% on it

Year to date

30,981

Down 22% on 2022

Employers with a permit this month

1,027

184 for the first time

Twelve months to December

Dec
2,447
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

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,447 employment permits in December 2023, down 19% on November and up 10% on December 2022.

That brings the year to 30,981 permits, down 22% on the same point in 2022.

1,027 employers received at least one permit in the month, 184 of them for the first time.

Google Ireland Limited took the most, with 66.

Busiest counties: Dublin (992), Cork (132), Galway (119).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in December

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

#EmployerCountyDecMonth beforeDec 20222023 to date
1Google Ireland LimitedDublin663420302
2St. James's Hospital39164200
3University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick351815306
4Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin331413101
5University Hospital WaterfordWaterford332015243
6Galway University HospitalGalway302315284
7Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath303910353
8Boston Scientific Ireland LimitedGalway281170
9Children's Health Ireland264020207
10Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited CompanyLimerick252422264
11Beacon Hospital Sandyford LimitedDublin24107116
12St. Vincent's Healthcare GroupDublin21236240
13Blackrock Clinic Unlimited CompanyDublin2012268
14Ernst & Young202828365
15Connaught Electronics LimitedGalway19113107

New to permits

184 employers took their first ever permit in December

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Euram Aircraft Engine Centre LtdOffaly4
James Walton Transport LtdKilkenny4
Beaumont Private Ambulance LimitedMayo3
HSK Pants Limited3
Heatec Plumbing Contractors LimitedWexford3
Westpond Lodges Hotel Limited3
4F Pizzeria LtdDublin2
A&D Inguz LimitedDublin2
AA Kitchens Furniture Manufacturing LimitedMeath2
Bord Gáis Energy2

Where

Permits by county in December

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

Dublin (401 employers)
992
Cork (77 employers)
132
Galway (27 employers)
119
Limerick (28 employers)
100
Kildare (28 employers)
75
Meath (22 employers)
70
Waterford (12 employers)
56
Clare (17 employers)
53
Louth (9 employers)
32
Mayo (12 employers)
28

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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.