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Permit Pulse: February 2025

Ireland issued 2,994 employment permits in February 2025, down 21% on January and down 33% on February 2024.

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The month in numbers

February 2025 at a glance

This month

2,994

Down 21% on the month before

Same month last year

4,463

Down 33% on it

Year to date

6,792

Down 22% on 2024

Employers with a permit this month

1,477

255 for the first time

Twelve months to February

Feb
2,994
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 24
3,858

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,994 employment permits in February 2025, down 21% on January and down 33% on February 2024.

That brings the year to 6,792 permits, down 22% on the same point in 2024.

1,477 employers received at least one permit in the month, 255 of them for the first time.

Walsh Mushrooms Golden Unlimited Company took the most, with 57.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,076), Cork (168), Kildare (132).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in February

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

#EmployerCountyFebMonth beforeFeb 20242025 to date
1Walsh Mushrooms Golden Unlimited CompanyWexford5710067
2Intel Ireland LimitedKildare3942243
3Monaghan Mushrooms Ireland UCMonaghan3725662
4Nua Healthcare Services LimitedKildare33139646
5WuXi Biologics Ireland LimitedLouth3251537
6Google Ireland LimitedDublin30375167
7Bernard Kavanagh and Sons Limited291030
8Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath2603226
9Radley Engineering LimitedWaterford2442066
10St. Vincent's Healthcare GroupDublin24131437
11Accenture LimitedDublin22292251
12Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin22231645
13Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin18191237
14Ernst & Young1884226
15Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford17338020

New to permits

255 employers took their first ever permit in February

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

EmployerCountyPermits
MJ Environmental Techniques LtdDublin11
W.& H. Steel & Roofing Systems Limited9
A Willi LtdDublin7
Glenaulin Residential Care LimitedDublin6
HSE CHO Dublin City and CountyDublin5
Popular Motors LimitedCork5
Coughlan Engineering (Tullamore) Ltd.Offaly4
Parma Motors LimitedDublin4
Solus Healthcare Services LimitedDublin4
Stanley Asphalt LimitedDublin4

Where

Permits by county in February

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

Dublin (500 employers)
1,076
Cork (93 employers)
168
Kildare (35 employers)
132
Meath (41 employers)
124
Limerick (42 employers)
108
Wexford (18 employers)
91
Waterford (13 employers)
64
Galway (35 employers)
58
Louth (11 employers)
57
Monaghan (7 employers)
52

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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.