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Permit Pulse: February 2024

Ireland issued 4,463 employment permits in February 2024, up 5% on January and up 104% on February 2023.

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The month in numbers

February 2024 at a glance

This month

4,463

Up 5% on the month before

Same month last year

2,192

Up 104% on it

Year to date

8,713

Up 85% on 2023

Employers with a permit this month

1,259

255 for the first time

Twelve months to February

Feb
4,463
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 23
2,546

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 4,463 employment permits in February 2024, up 5% on January and up 104% on February 2023.

That brings the year to 8,713 permits, up 85% on the same point in 2023.

1,259 employers received at least one permit in the month, 255 of them for the first time.

Dawn Meats Ireland UC took the most, with 380.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,379), Waterford (470), Cork (224).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in February

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

#EmployerCountyFebMonth beforeFeb 20232024 to date
1Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford38040384
2Irish Country Meats (Sheepmeat) Unlimited10002100
3Nua Healthcare Services LimitedKildare963019126
4Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth76930169
5Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited CompanyLimerick68221590
6Children's Health Ireland66869152
7Slaney Foods International UCWexford5501055
8Google Ireland LimitedDublin51423593
9Mater Misericordiae University HospitalDublin495424103
10Cork University HospitalCork427015112
11Ernst & Young42382580
12Kildare Chilling CompanyWaterford371038
13InisCare LimitedDublin3624060
14Deloitte Ireland LLP34521386
15Cognizant Technology Solutions Ireland LimitedDublin32341466

New to permits

255 employers took their first ever permit in February

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

EmployerCountyPermits
FLI Precast Solutions LimitedWaterford20
Kel-Tech Engineering19
Coyle Complete LimitedMonaghan16
Coral Berry LimitedMeath12
Duesbury LimitedClare6
Banjotech Ireland LimitedDublin5
Nash Minibus & Coach Hire Ltd5
Changsheng Catering LtdDublin4
Coopershill Coffee LimitedSligo4
Denis and Hughes LimitedGalway4

Where

Permits by county in February

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

Dublin (448 employers)
1,379
Waterford (15 employers)
470
Cork (76 employers)
224
Kildare (31 employers)
223
Meath (34 employers)
134
Limerick (33 employers)
131
Louth (7 employers)
103
Galway (30 employers)
93
Cavan (18 employers)
84
Wexford (8 employers)
75

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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.