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Permit Pulse: March 2025

Ireland issued 3,191 employment permits in March 2025, up 7% on February and down 17% on March 2024.

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The month in numbers

March 2025 at a glance

This month

3,191

Up 7% on the month before

Same month last year

3,858

Down 17% on it

Year to date

9,983

Down 21% on 2024

Employers with a permit this month

1,670

323 for the first time

Twelve months to March

Mar
3,191
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 24
4,553

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,191 employment permits in March 2025, up 7% on February and down 17% on March 2024.

That brings the year to 9,983 permits, down 21% on the same point in 2024.

1,670 employers received at least one permit in the month, 323 of them for the first time.

Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited Company took the most, with 82.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,105), Cork (222), Meath (191).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in March

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

#EmployerCountyMarMonth beforeMar 20242025 to date
1Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath822643108
2Google Ireland LimitedDublin343041101
3Specialist Technical Engineering Services (STS Group)330033
4Tata Consultancy Services LimitedDublin3115967
5Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited CompanyLimerick29172160
6Applus Inspection Services Ireland LimitedDublin2601131
7The Rehab Group CLGDublin251143
8Ernst & Young24187250
9Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin22222467
10Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin21182758
11Donegal Meat Processors Unlimited CompanyDonegal171018
12Keelings Retail Unlimited CompanyDublin172019
13Accenture LimitedDublin1422765
14Kearns Fruit Farm LimitedWexford140014
15Resilience Healthcare LimitedClare145722

New to permits

323 employers took their first ever permit in March

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

EmployerCountyPermits
KMG Mechanical Services LimitedGalway10
Coldridge Scaffolding LimitedDublin9
Summit Scaffolding LtdWexford7
Carnehill Joinery LtdMonaghan5
Bus Éireann - Irish Bus4
Derek Byrne Construction Ltd.Wicklow4
Strathroy Dairy ROI UCDublin4
Belgrave Contracting Limited3
HZC Restaurant LimitedDublin3
MS Renovations & Maintenance Ltd3

Where

Permits by county in March

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

Dublin (490 employers)
1,105
Cork (128 employers)
222
Meath (54 employers)
191
Kildare (43 employers)
118
Limerick (38 employers)
105
Galway (50 employers)
95
Clare (26 employers)
50
Waterford (17 employers)
40
Donegal (16 employers)
40
Wexford (13 employers)
38

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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.