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Permit Pulse: December 2025

Ireland issued 2,440 employment permits in December 2025, down 16% on November and down 36% on December 2024.

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The month in numbers

December 2025 at a glance

This month

2,440

Down 16% on the month before

Same month last year

3,804

Down 36% on it

Year to date

31,044

Down 38% on 2024

Employers with a permit this month

1,377

248 for the first time

Twelve months to December

Dec
2,440
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

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,440 employment permits in December 2025, down 16% on November and down 36% on December 2024.

That brings the year to 31,044 permits, down 38% on the same point in 2024.

1,377 employers received at least one permit in the month, 248 of them for the first time.

Circet Networks (Ireland) Limited took the most, with 42.

Busiest counties: Dublin (858), Cork (154), Meath (92).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in December

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

#EmployerCountyDecMonth beforeDec 20242025 to date
1Circet Networks (Ireland) LimitedDublin421274
2Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath34195237
3Google Ireland LimitedDublin262933368
4Supermac's Ireland LimitedGalway213044
5University Hospital KerryKerry184597
6McDonald International LtdOffaly173041
7University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick16622251
8Bluebird Care Dublin South LimitedDublin1411151
9Eli Lilly Kinsale LimitedCork1441269
10Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth131168
11Platinum Home Care LimitedDublin139275
12Microsoft Ireland Research Unlimited CompanyDublin1212855
13WuXi Biologics Ireland LimitedLouth121534130
14Accenture LimitedDublin111130195
15Children's Health Ireland115882

New to permits

248 employers took their first ever permit in December

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Breffni Career Solutions LimitedCavan7
Tulway LimitedWestmeath6
Emagine Creative Carpentry Services5
Jingdong Group Ireland LimitedDublin3
McGinty Tractors Limited3
Rushbell Catering LimitedDublin3
Aidan Strain Electrical Engineering Ireland Ltd2
Ashleigh Farms (Waterford) LimitedWaterford2
Brasileirinho Limited2
Cabinteely Senior Football Club LimitedWicklow2

Where

Permits by county in December

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

Dublin (441 employers)
858
Cork (81 employers)
154
Meath (31 employers)
92
Galway (43 employers)
90
Limerick (35 employers)
82
Kildare (34 employers)
62
Louth (17 employers)
41
Clare (14 employers)
39
Offaly (10 employers)
35
Westmeath (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.