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Permit Pulse: November 2025

Ireland issued 2,889 employment permits in November 2025, down 7% on October and down 30% on November 2024.

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The month in numbers

November 2025 at a glance

This month

2,889

Down 7% on the month before

Same month last year

4,145

Down 30% on it

Year to date

28,604

Down 38% on 2024

Employers with a permit this month

1,611

352 for the first time

Twelve months to November

Nov
2,889
Oct
3,092
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 24
3,804

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,889 employment permits in November 2025, down 7% on October and down 30% on November 2024.

That brings the year to 28,604 permits, down 38% on the same point in 2024.

1,611 employers received at least one permit in the month, 352 of them for the first time.

Ernst & Young took the most, with 31.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,069), Cork (199), Galway (81).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in November

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

#EmployerCountyNovMonth beforeNov 20242025 to date
1Ernst & Young313144267
2Google Ireland LimitedDublin294645342
3Knockrobin Nursing Home LimitedWexford26222678
4William Connolly and Sons Unlimited Company210021
5Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath19365203
6Cognizant Technology Solutions Ireland LimitedDublin17132299
7Deloitte Ireland LLP1791695
8Analog Devices International Unlimited Company168573
9Mastercard Ireland LimitedDublin1691981
10Tata Consultancy Services LimitedDublin161328143
11HMCK Healthcare LimitedCavan151034
12WuXi Biologics Ireland LimitedLouth151240118
13Resilience Healthcare LimitedClare141111109
14Amazon Ireland Support Services LimitedCork1361566
15Ballygorman Construction LimitedDonegal130039

New to permits

352 employers took their first ever permit in November

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Style Blinds and Interiors LimitedDonegal6
RH Wood Floors LimitedDublin4
GBBS International LimitedTipperary3
PH Contracting PRO LimitedKerry3
Saffron Bombay Bistro Limited3
South Doc Services LimitedKerry3
Truck Car Sales Limited3
Alrehab Limited2
Avansa IT Solutions Limited2
CGM Technical Support Services Ltd2

Where

Permits by county in November

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

Dublin (499 employers)
1,069
Cork (98 employers)
199
Galway (43 employers)
81
Meath (31 employers)
80
Limerick (36 employers)
61
Kildare (33 employers)
59
Louth (16 employers)
48
Wexford (12 employers)
45
Cavan (13 employers)
37
Clare (18 employers)
35

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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.