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Permit Pulse: April 2025

Ireland issued 1,668 employment permits in April 2025, down 48% on March and down 63% on April 2024.

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The month in numbers

April 2025 at a glance

This month

1,668

Down 48% on the month before

Same month last year

4,553

Down 63% on it

Year to date

11,651

Down 32% on 2024

Employers with a permit this month

938

157 for the first time

Twelve months to April

Apr
1,668
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 24
3,739

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 1,668 employment permits in April 2025, down 48% on March and down 63% on April 2024.

That brings the year to 11,651 permits, down 32% on the same point in 2024.

938 employers received at least one permit in the month, 157 of them for the first time.

Google Ireland Limited took the most, with 38.

Busiest counties: Dublin (617), Cork (94), Limerick (67).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in April

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

#EmployerCountyAprMonth beforeApr 20242025 to date
1Google Ireland LimitedDublin383437139
2Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited CompanyLimerick31294091
3William P. Keeling & Sons Unlimited Company260026
4Applus Inspection Services Ireland LimitedDublin1826049
5Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath1782107125
6Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin16221783
7Ernst & Young16245066
8Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford1486442
9Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth1210336
10Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin11212069
11JJ Kavanagh & Sons Limited112017
12Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited CompanyOffaly118722
13Tata Consultancy Services LimitedDublin10312677
14University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick1071148
15Accenture LimitedDublin9141674

New to permits

157 employers took their first ever permit in April

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

EmployerCountyPermits
William P. Keeling & Sons Unlimited Company26
C G Environmental Ltd3
Arena Hospitality Ltd2
John Joe & Leo O'Connor Farm Limited2
John O' Sullivan2
Ogma Concepts Limited2
OuXin Advisory Limited2
Partsol Global Limited2
Sheephaven PropertiesDonegal2
AJB Retail Limited1

Where

Permits by county in April

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

Dublin (316 employers)
617
Cork (59 employers)
94
Limerick (21 employers)
67
Meath (27 employers)
59
Kildare (26 employers)
54
Galway (32 employers)
44
Wexford (10 employers)
27
Waterford (7 employers)
26
Louth (7 employers)
22
Clare (10 employers)
22

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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.