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Permit Pulse: January 2025

Ireland issued 3,798 employment permits in January 2025, level with December and down 11% on January 2024.

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The month in numbers

January 2025 at a glance

This month

3,798

Level with the month before

Same month last year

4,250

Down 11% on it

Year to date

3,798

Down 11% on 2024

Employers with a permit this month

1,889

386 for the first time

Twelve months to January

Jan 25
3,798
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 24
4,463

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,798 employment permits in January 2025, level with December and down 11% on January 2024.

That brings the year to 3,798 permits, down 11% on the same point in 2024.

1,889 employers received at least one permit in the month, 386 of them for the first time.

Radley Engineering Limited took the most, with 42.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,529), Cork (245), Limerick (139).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in January

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

#EmployerCountyJanMonth beforeJan 20242025 to date
1Radley Engineering LimitedWaterford420042
2Google Ireland LimitedDublin37334237
3Costern Unlimited CompanyDublin32168432
4Accenture LimitedDublin29302829
5Monaghan Mushrooms Ireland UCMonaghan25781225
6Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin23463623
7Hamilton Park Care Centre LimitedDublin226622
8Trim Formworks LimitedMeath220122
9CareChoice Trim LimitedDublin21141021
10Tata Consultancy Services LimitedDublin21211221
11Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin19181619
12Circet Networks (Ireland) LimitedDublin182018
13Tiernaneill Mushrooms LimitedMonaghan180018
14University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick18223918
15Amazon Data Services Ireland LimitedDublin1791017

New to permits

386 employers took their first ever permit in January

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

EmployerCountyPermits
People Resourcing7
Forvis Mazars6
C Thomas Machinery LimitedKildare5
A&M Interior Glazing LimitedDublin4
Atlantic Aviation Group Limited H24
Boland Rice ltd4
Boran Packaging LimitedKildare4
Guedson De Moraes Construction LimitedRoscommon4
Health Service Executive DML (Midland Area)4
Trinity College Dublin, the University of DublinDublin4

Where

Permits by county in January

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

Dublin (638 employers)
1,529
Cork (124 employers)
245
Limerick (59 employers)
139
Kildare (49 employers)
126
Meath (53 employers)
111
Galway (43 employers)
84
Cavan (25 employers)
78
Waterford (10 employers)
70
Tipperary (25 employers)
51
Monaghan (7 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.