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Permit Pulse: October 2024

Ireland issued 3,733 employment permits in October 2024, down 4% on September and up 47% on October 2023.

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The month in numbers

October 2024 at a glance

This month

3,733

Down 4% on the month before

Same month last year

2,544

Up 47% on it

Year to date

42,354

Up 66% on 2023

Employers with a permit this month

1,408

262 for the first time

Twelve months to October

Oct
3,733
Sep
3,872
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 23
3,005

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,733 employment permits in October 2024, down 4% on September and up 47% on October 2023.

That brings the year to 42,354 permits, up 66% on the same point in 2023.

1,408 employers received at least one permit in the month, 262 of them for the first time.

Dawn Meats Ireland UC took the most, with 162.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,336), Cork (220), Waterford (201).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in October

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

#EmployerCountyOctMonth beforeOct 20232024 to date
1Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford16232811,324
2Intel Ireland LimitedKildare70447384
3Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath683339390
4Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth47215277
5Ernst & Young426023556
6Costern Unlimited CompanyDublin36380220
7Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin33425303
8Deloitte Ireland LLP264221392
9MCGA LimitedDublin25450110
10Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited CompanyLimerick252619353
11Bartra OpCo (Beaumont NH) LimitedDublin243873
12Google Ireland LimitedDublin242028323
13Oaklands Garage LimitedWexford230025
14Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited CompanyOffaly22660124
15Accenture LimitedDublin211912176

New to permits

262 employers took their first ever permit in October

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Bartra Propco (No. 26) LimitedDublin9
Connaught Door Centre Limited t/a The Door Centre6
Club Spraoi LtdCork4
Coolmore Property Developments LtdCork4
D&L Cummins LtdDublin4
Emerald Green Farm LimitedTipperary4
Hall Transport Ltd.Longford4
Hillside Machine Tech LimitedLaois4
Jin Hongying LtdKerry4
Superior Health LimitedCork4

Where

Permits by county in October

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

Dublin (477 employers)
1,336
Cork (102 employers)
220
Waterford (10 employers)
201
Kildare (46 employers)
196
Meath (27 employers)
147
Louth (13 employers)
91
Limerick (29 employers)
78
Clare (19 employers)
65
Galway (34 employers)
56
Donegal (12 employers)
50

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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.