The month in numbers

May 2024 at a glance

This month

3,739

Down 18% on the month before

Same month last year

2,758

Up 36% on it

Year to date

20,863

Up 71% on 2023

Employers with a permit this month

1,321

294 for the first time

Twelve months to May

3.1k

Jun 23

3k

Jul

2.4k

Aug

2.2k

Sep

2.5k

Oct

3k

Nov

2.4k

Dec

4.3k

Jan 24

4.5k

Feb

3.9k

Mar

4.6k

Apr

3.7k

May

3,739

Apr

4,553

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 23

3,138

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,739 employment permits in May 2024, down 18% on April and up 36% on May 2023.

That brings the year to 20,863 permits, up 71% on the same point in 2023.

1,321 employers received at least one permit in the month, 294 of them for the first time.

Dawn Meats Ireland UC took the most, with 174.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,246), Cork (270), Waterford (237).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in May

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

#	Employer	County	May	Month before	May 2023	2024 to date
1	Dawn Meats Ireland UC	Waterford	174	64	0	748
2	Liffey Meats (Cavan) Unlimited Company	Cavan	86	18	0	131
3	InisCare Limited	Dublin	62	32	9	188
4	Bus Átha Cliath - Dublin Bus	Dublin	43	2	0	45
5	Kildare Chilling Company	Waterford	43	4	0	103
6	Nua Healthcare Services Limited	Kildare	42	19	11	223
7	Ernst & Young		38	50	25	240
8	Deloitte Ireland LLP		36	32	6	230
9	Dornan Engineering Limited	Cork	34	0	1	34
10	Cavan & Monaghan Hospital	Cavan	30	14	10	118
11	Cork University Hospital	Cork	28	34	34	274
12	Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited Company	Limerick	28	40	11	179
13	Communicare Agency Limited	Dublin	26	14	5	68
14	Children's Health Ireland		24	30	11	258
15	WuXi Biologics Ireland Limited	Louth	23	17	31	88

New to permits

294 employers took their first ever permit in May

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
Harmony Vale Produce Unlimited Company	Meath	12
Cuala Senior Care Limited	Dublin	10
DTS Licensing Limited		10
Motor Import Unlimited Company	Dublin	9
Fitzpatricks Garage Ltd	Kildare	8
Killiane Engineering Ltd	Wexford	6
McAree Engineering Works Ltd		5
Spridale Ltd	Meath	5
Charlestown Racing Limited	Westmeath	4
Charlestown Venture Capital Limited		4

Where

Permits by county in May

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

Dublin (447 employers)

1,246

Cork (88 employers)

270

Waterford (13 employers)

237

Kildare (31 employers)

160

Meath (38 employers)

148

Cavan (8 employers)

127

Limerick (46 employers)

116

Galway (40 employers)

90

Louth (14 employers)

58

Wexford (14 employers)

54

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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.

Permit Pulse: May 2024