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Permit Pulse: September 2025

Ireland issued 2,627 employment permits in September 2025, down 1% on August and down 32% on September 2024.

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The month in numbers

September 2025 at a glance

This month

2,627

Down 1% on the month before

Same month last year

3,872

Down 32% on it

Year to date

22,623

Down 41% on 2024

Employers with a permit this month

1,362

249 for the first time

Twelve months to September

Sep
2,627
Aug
2,661
Jul
2,180
Jun
1,684
May
1,820
Apr
1,668
Mar
3,191
Feb
2,994
Jan 25
3,798
Dec
3,804
Nov
4,145
Oct 24
3,733

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,627 employment permits in September 2025, down 1% on August and down 32% on September 2024.

That brings the year to 22,623 permits, down 41% on the same point in 2024.

1,362 employers received at least one permit in the month, 249 of them for the first time.

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited took the most, with 40.

Busiest counties: Dublin (938), Cork (190), Limerick (89).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in September

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

#EmployerCountySepMonth beforeSep 20242025 to date
1Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin402642213
2Cork University HospitalCork40218106
3Liffey Meats (Cavan) Unlimited CompanyCavan2931276
4Ernst & Young252860205
5Kel-Tech Engineering (Waterford) LimitedWaterford223063
6Privet ProductionsDublin220022
7Ballygorman Construction LimitedDonegal196126
8Bartra OpCo (Beaumont NH) LimitedDublin199372
9Accenture LimitedDublin181719149
10Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath182333181
11University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick18327221
12WuXi Biologics Ireland LimitedLouth1815791
13Abbott IrelandDublin163147
14Allied Irish Banks, Public Limited CompanyDublin160834
15Google Ireland LimitedDublin163220267

New to permits

249 employers took their first ever permit in September

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Privet ProductionsDublin22
Enva Ireland LimitedLaois4
Sirius XM Ireland LimitedDublin4
Joe Mallon (Motors) LimitedKildare3
Moore SeaFoods Limited3
Murphy Machinery (Kilkenny) Ltd3
Ali & Manoj Ventures Limited2
Ashley Martin LtdDonegal2
Blackwater Mechanical & Fabrication Services Limited2
Bluestone Personnel Limited2

Where

Permits by county in September

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

Dublin (438 employers)
938
Cork (84 employers)
190
Limerick (36 employers)
89
Galway (41 employers)
72
Waterford (12 employers)
67
Meath (32 employers)
61
Kildare (41 employers)
59
Cavan (14 employers)
58
Louth (9 employers)
44
Donegal (10 employers)
44

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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.