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Permit Pulse: April 2026

Ireland issued 3,352 employment permits in April 2026, up 14% on March and up 101% on April 2025.

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The month in numbers

April 2026 at a glance

This month

3,352

Up 14% on the month before

Same month last year

1,668

Up 101% on it

Year to date

12,327

Up 6% on 2025

Employers with a permit this month

1,476

257 for the first time

Twelve months to April

Apr
3,352
Mar
2,933
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 25
1,820

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,352 employment permits in April 2026, up 14% on March and up 101% on April 2025.

That brings the year to 12,327 permits, up 6% on the same point in 2025.

1,476 employers received at least one permit in the month, 257 of them for the first time.

Dawn Meats Ireland UC took the most, with 125.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,065), Cork (218), Waterford (192).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in April

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

#EmployerCountyAprMonth beforeApr 20252026 to date
1Dawn Meats Ireland UCWaterford125114135
2Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited CompanyLimerick7003172
3Kellor Services (IRE) LimitedKerry650065
4Costern Unlimited CompanyDublin52228108
5Starrus Eco Holding Limited371344
6Nua Healthcare Services LimitedKildare3612470
7Resilience Healthcare LimitedClare2625792
8Keelings Retail Unlimited CompanyDublin251127
9McCarren Meats Unlimited CompanyMeath250225
10Tata Consultancy Services LimitedDublin2591064
11Glanua Ireland LimitedWaterford241025
12Platinum Home Care LimitedDublin2212238
13Allpro Security Services Ireland LimitedGalway210021
14Callinan Coaches LimitedGalway211024
15InisCare LimitedDublin1926586

New to permits

257 employers took their first ever permit in April

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Kellor (Joinery) Services LimitedKerry17
Rototech LimitedLouth9
McMahon's Concrete Products LtdTipperary8
Season Master Double Glazing LtdMayo8
Elecnor Ireland LtdDublin5
GF Solmara LimitedLouth4
Willowcrest LimitedCork4
F & M Whelan Steel Engineering Ltd3
Aayat Café Limited2
Accel Capital Partners (Ireland) LimitedDublin2

Where

Permits by county in April

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

Dublin (465 employers)
1,065
Cork (93 employers)
218
Waterford (13 employers)
192
Meath (43 employers)
174
Kildare (41 employers)
141
Kerry (20 employers)
134
Limerick (33 employers)
133
Galway (43 employers)
98
Clare (13 employers)
57
Mayo (21 employers)
47

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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.