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Permit Pulse: March 2024

Ireland issued 3,858 employment permits in March 2024, down 14% on February and up 52% on March 2023.

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The month in numbers

March 2024 at a glance

This month

3,858

Down 14% on the month before

Same month last year

2,546

Up 52% on it

Year to date

12,571

Up 73% on 2023

Employers with a permit this month

1,098

178 for the first time

Twelve months to March

2.2k

Apr 23

2.8k

May

3.1k

Jun

Jul

2.4k

Aug

2.2k

Sep

2.5k

Oct

Nov

2.4k

Dec

4.3k

Jan 24

4.5k

Feb

3.9k

Mar

3,858

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 23

2,179

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,858 employment permits in March 2024, down 14% on February and up 52% on March 2023.

That brings the year to 12,571 permits, up 73% on the same point in 2023.

1,098 employers received at least one permit in the month, 178 of them for the first time.

Dawn Meats Ireland UC took the most, with 126.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,494), Cork (288), Waterford (192).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in March

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

#	Employer	County	Mar	Month before	Mar 2023	2024 to date
1	Dawn Meats Ireland UC	Waterford	126	380	21	510
2	Cork University Hospital	Cork	100	42	10	212
3	Deloitte Ireland LLP		76	34	11	162
4	Ernst & Young		72	42	17	152
5	St. Vincent's Healthcare Group	Dublin	69	14	28	111
6	Children's Health Ireland		52	66	8	204
7	Cognizant Technology Solutions Ireland Limited	Dublin	48	32	9	114
8	St. James's Hospital		45	15	33	77
9	Carechoice Parnell Two Limited		44	6	0	66
10	Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited Company	Meath	43	32	39	138
11	Mater Misericordiae University Hospital	Dublin	42	49	10	145
12	Google Ireland Limited	Dublin	41	51	8	134
13	Hermitage Clinic	Dublin	38	22	2	72
14	Nua Healthcare Services Limited	Kildare	36	96	11	162
15	InisCare Limited	Dublin	34	36	0	94

New to permits

178 employers took their first ever permit in March

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

Employer	County	Permits
Orbit & Skyline India Private Limited		9
Fillet Ventures Limited	Waterford	6
Fingal Home Care Company Limited by Guarantee	Dublin	6
Jacks Bar Catering Ltd		6
TC Hospitality Limited	Wexford	6
Knockeen Racing Unlimited Company	Waterford	5
RGF Treasury Services Limited		5
Commissioning Services Limited	Carlow	4
Coolkass LTD	Tipperary	4
Declan O'Callaghan		4

Where

Permits by county in March

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

Dublin (433 employers)

1,494

Cork (70 employers)

288

Waterford (15 employers)

192

Kildare (38 employers)

163

Meath (26 employers)

103

Limerick (28 employers)

Galway (24 employers)

Cavan (13 employers)

Tipperary (14 employers)

Louth (6 employers)

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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.