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Permit Pulse: January 2024

Ireland issued 4,250 employment permits in January 2024, up 74% on December and up 68% on January 2023.

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The month in numbers

January 2024 at a glance

This month

4,250

Up 74% on the month before

Same month last year

2,527

Up 68% on it

Year to date

4,250

Up 68% on 2023

Employers with a permit this month

1,216

216 for the first time

Twelve months to January

Jan 24
4,250
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 23
2,192

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 4,250 employment permits in January 2024, up 74% on December and up 68% on January 2023.

That brings the year to 4,250 permits, up 68% on the same point in 2023.

1,216 employers received at least one permit in the month, 216 of them for the first time.

Anglo Beef Processors Ireland took the most, with 93.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,550), Cork (336), Meath (176).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in January

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

#EmployerCountyJanMonth beforeJan 20232024 to date
1Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth933293
2Children's Health Ireland86261186
3Costern Unlimited CompanyDublin8411084
4Cork University HospitalCork70102270
5Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath6330163
6Mater Misericordiae University HospitalDublin54152554
7Deloitte Ireland LLP52171452
8Intel Ireland LimitedKildare5017150
9Cork Kerry Community HealthcareCork461646
10Google Ireland LimitedDublin42662442
11University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick39351139
12Ernst & Young38202538
13Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin3633536
14Cognizant Technology Solutions Ireland LimitedDublin3471034
15Tyholland Mushrooms LimitedMonaghan340034

New to permits

216 employers took their first ever permit in January

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

EmployerCountyPermits
IP Passenger Services Limited18
Kingdom Home Care Services LimitedLimerick12
Walsh Golden Mushrooms Unlimited Company9
Bernard Kavanagh and Sons (Dublin) LtdDublin8
Chadwicks Group LimitedDublin4
Changarro Mexican Restaurant Limited4
Cybersee LimitedLongford4
Eirebloc LimitedCork4
H and W Plastering Ltd4
Interparts (Drumalee) LimitedCavan4

Where

Permits by county in January

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

Dublin (438 employers)
1,550
Cork (85 employers)
336
Meath (40 employers)
176
Limerick (38 employers)
163
Kildare (21 employers)
152
Galway (35 employers)
132
Louth (6 employers)
113
Cavan (13 employers)
57
Monaghan (4 employers)
56
Waterford (18 employers)
55

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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.