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Permit Pulse: August 2024

Ireland issued 4,312 employment permits in August 2024, down 25% on July and up 79% on August 2023.

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The month in numbers

August 2024 at a glance

This month

4,312

Down 25% on the month before

Same month last year

2,411

Up 79% on it

Year to date

34,749

Up 67% on 2023

Employers with a permit this month

1,610

324 for the first time

Twelve months to August

Aug
4,312
Jul
5,742
Jun
3,832
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 23
2,203

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 4,312 employment permits in August 2024, down 25% on July and up 79% on August 2023.

That brings the year to 34,749 permits, up 67% on the same point in 2023.

1,610 employers received at least one permit in the month, 324 of them for the first time.

Ernst & Young took the most, with 74.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,581), Cork (301), Kildare (148).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in August

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

#EmployerCountyAugMonth beforeAug 20232024 to date
1Ernst & Young749440454
2Cork University HospitalCork5013019532
3Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford4860834
4Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin445711228
5Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited CompanyLimerick433833302
6Electricity Supply Board42214130
7David Blessington Concrete Works LimitedLongford402042
8Citi Bus LimitedGalway3601490
9Resilience Healthcare LimitedClare3513090
10Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin34357173
11Applus Inspection Services Ireland LimitedDublin34234887
12Deloitte Ireland LLP342612324
13Carton Brothers Unlimited Company301600248
14St. James's Hospital303010236
15Beaumont Hospital26373164

New to permits

324 employers took their first ever permit in August

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Castledaly Construction LimitedDublin10
Coconostra LimitedDublin10
VIEC Two LimitedDublin10
Dundalk Engineering Products LtdLouth6
Express Safe Systems LimitedCork6
Callan Bacon Company LimitedDublin4
Clearbrook Healthcare LimitedDublin4
DHKN Limited4
Designer Landscapes LimitedKerry4
Edward Lundy Haulage Unlimited CompanyMayo4

Where

Permits by county in August

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

Dublin (554 employers)
1,581
Cork (105 employers)
301
Kildare (40 employers)
148
Limerick (33 employers)
133
Meath (33 employers)
107
Galway (38 employers)
105
Waterford (15 employers)
77
Monaghan (15 employers)
74
Clare (18 employers)
64
Louth (16 employers)
56

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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.