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Permit Pulse: February 2026

Ireland issued 2,817 employment permits in February 2026, down 13% on January and down 6% on February 2025.

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The month in numbers

February 2026 at a glance

This month

2,817

Down 13% on the month before

Same month last year

2,994

Down 6% on it

Year to date

6,042

Down 11% on 2025

Employers with a permit this month

1,457

240 for the first time

Twelve months to February

Feb
2,817
Jan 26
3,225
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 25
3,191

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,817 employment permits in February 2026, down 13% on January and down 6% on February 2025.

That brings the year to 6,042 permits, down 11% on the same point in 2025.

1,457 employers received at least one permit in the month, 240 of them for the first time.

Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited Company took the most, with 66.

Busiest counties: Dublin (968), Cork (240), Meath (140).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in February

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

#EmployerCountyFebMonth beforeFeb 20252026 to date
1Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited CompanyMeath66272693
2Applus Inspection Services Ireland LimitedDublin3740077
3Bus Átha Cliath - Dublin BusDublin310131
4Cork University HospitalCork3132463
5InisCare LimitedDublin23181741
6Barry's Coaches LimitedCork212023
7QT Technologies Ireland LimitedDublin2010930
8Amazon Ireland Support Services LimitedCork194723
9Google Ireland LimitedDublin19373056
10Quarry and Mining Equipment Limited191020
11Tata Consultancy Services LimitedDublin18121530
12Tiernaneill Mushrooms LimitedMonaghan164520
13AAG Hangar 1 LimitedClare157022
14Grant Thornton Corporate Finance LimitedDublin154919
15Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin1481822

New to permits

240 employers took their first ever permit in February

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

EmployerCountyPermits
TerraGlen Residential Care Services Limited11
Brendan Gallagher Fitted Furniture LimitedDublin6
Cranesbill Productions DACDublin6
Chongqing LimitedDublin4
E Thomas Developments LimitedKildare3
Finmount Ltd3
Mr Andrew Slattery3
Sth Tipperary Farm Relief Services LtdTipperary3
West 53 Capital Limited3
4AG Robotics (Ireland) Limited2

Where

Permits by county in February

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

Dublin (447 employers)
968
Cork (111 employers)
240
Meath (34 employers)
140
Kildare (38 employers)
108
Limerick (45 employers)
82
Galway (35 employers)
64
Wexford (20 employers)
55
Clare (16 employers)
44
Louth (12 employers)
42
Cavan (18 employers)
42

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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.