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Permit Pulse: May 2025

Ireland issued 1,820 employment permits in May 2025, up 9% on April and down 51% on May 2024.

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The month in numbers

May 2025 at a glance

This month

1,820

Up 9% on the month before

Same month last year

3,739

Down 51% on it

Year to date

13,471

Down 35% on 2024

Employers with a permit this month

985

183 for the first time

Twelve months to May

May
1,820
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 24
3,832

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 1,820 employment permits in May 2025, up 9% on April and down 51% on May 2024.

That brings the year to 13,471 permits, down 35% on the same point in 2024.

985 employers received at least one permit in the month, 183 of them for the first time.

NT R&D Logistics Systems Limited took the most, with 36.

Busiest counties: Dublin (618), Cork (117), Limerick (93).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in May

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

#EmployerCountyMayMonth beforeMay 20242025 to date
1NT R&D Logistics Systems LimitedWexford360036
2Google Ireland LimitedDublin27389166
3Resilience Healthcare LimitedClare237052
4Bartra OpCo (Beaumont NH) LimitedDublin173639
5Janssen Sciences Ireland UCCork173021
6Leatrans LimitedLimerick174127
7Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin1516998
8Ernst & Young14163880
9Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited CompanyOffaly1411836
10Accenture LimitedDublin139787
11Amazon Data Services Ireland LimitedDublin1361451
12Costern Unlimited CompanyDublin1381475
13Kavanagh Meats EnniscorthyWexford134919
14M.R. Concrete (Ireland) LimitedDonegal130015
15Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin11111080

New to permits

183 employers took their first ever permit in May

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Brophy Produce LTDKildare8
Daktu Designated Activity CompanyLimerick6
Midland Doorsets Limited T/A Doorsets Ireland5
Carriglea Cairde ServicesWaterford4
Glenmore Farms LimitedDonegal4
Scream Queen Films DACDublin4
Gingko Restaurant LimitedDublin3
Radiance Star LimitedDublin3
A-Prompt Recruitment Limited2
BJD Tyre Centre Limited2

Where

Permits by county in May

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

Dublin (304 employers)
618
Cork (62 employers)
117
Limerick (39 employers)
93
Wexford (9 employers)
65
Kildare (30 employers)
60
Clare (18 employers)
45
Meath (20 employers)
43
Donegal (16 employers)
39
Waterford (10 employers)
33
Kerry (17 employers)
26

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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.