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Permit Pulse: December 2024

Ireland issued 3,804 employment permits in December 2024, down 8% on November and up 55% on December 2023.

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The month in numbers

December 2024 at a glance

This month

3,804

Down 8% on the month before

Same month last year

2,447

Up 55% on it

Year to date

50,303

Up 62% on 2023

Employers with a permit this month

1,429

248 for the first time

Twelve months to December

Dec
3,804
Nov
4,145
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

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,804 employment permits in December 2024, down 8% on November and up 55% on December 2023.

That brings the year to 50,303 permits, up 62% on the same point in 2023.

1,429 employers received at least one permit in the month, 248 of them for the first time.

Monaghan Mushrooms Ireland UC took the most, with 78.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,394), Cork (338), Kildare (136).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in December

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

#EmployerCountyDecMonth beforeDec 20232024 to date
1Monaghan Mushrooms Ireland UCMonaghan7830119
2Cork University HospitalCork601010612
3Ernst & Young604420660
4Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin463833387
5InisCare LimitedDublin386812358
6WuXi Biologics Ireland LimitedLouth344015252
7Google Ireland LimitedDublin334566401
8Cognizant Technology Solutions Ireland LimitedDublin32227306
9Accenture LimitedDublin302510231
10The Rehab Group CLGDublin306149
11Deloitte Ireland LLP281617436
12Cork Kerry Community HealthcareCork26401170
13Applus Inspection Services Ireland LimitedDublin24100124
14University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick222235258
15Amazon Ireland Support Services LimitedCork211510151

New to permits

248 employers took their first ever permit in December

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Industrial Domestic Furniture (Tullamore) Ltd12
Cargo Power Logistics LtdLimerick8
Hi5 School Age Services LimitedDublin6
Tyrone Formwork LimitedMonaghan5
Culture Connection Talent Service LimitedDublin4
Enache Contracting LimitedDublin4
Hamwood StudMeath4
Haron Bin Mohamad Zain4
Herbie Stephenson LimitedWicklow4
Higgins Refrigeration LimitedMonaghan4

Where

Permits by county in December

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

Dublin (469 employers)
1,394
Cork (98 employers)
338
Kildare (41 employers)
136
Limerick (45 employers)
133
Monaghan (5 employers)
103
Louth (16 employers)
85
Meath (36 employers)
70
Galway (31 employers)
68
Tipperary (18 employers)
49
Cavan (18 employers)
48

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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.