The month in numbers

June 2026 at a glance

This month

3,474

Up 5% on the month before

Same month last year

1,684

Up 106% on it

Year to date

19,098

Up 26% on 2025

Employers with a permit this month

1,558

287 for the first time

Twelve months to June

2.2k

Jul 25

2.7k

Aug

2.6k

Sep

3.1k

Oct

2.9k

Nov

2.4k

Dec

3.2k

Jan 26

2.8k

Feb

2.9k

Mar

3.4k

Apr

3.3k

May

3.5k

Jun

3,474

May

3,297

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 25

2,180

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,474 employment permits in June 2026, up 5% on May and up 106% on June 2025.

That brings the year to 19,098 permits, up 26% on the same point in 2025.

1,558 employers received at least one permit in the month, 287 of them for the first time.

Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited Company took the most, with 111.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,184), Cork (245), Kildare (151).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in June

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

#	Employer	County	Jun	Month before	Jun 2025	2026 to date
1	Rosderra Irish Meats Group Unlimited Company	Offaly	111	102	9	227
2	Anglo Beef Processors Ireland	Louth	52	66	3	141
3	Dawn Meats Ireland UC	Waterford	39	113	6	287
4	Google Ireland Limited	Dublin	33	35	31	158
5	Redwood Extended Care Facility Unlimited Company	Meath	33	5	3	176
6	Cork University Hospital	Cork	30	18	17	116
7	Liffey Meats (Cavan) Unlimited Company	Cavan	30	0	1	30
8	FieldCore Service Solutions International LLC	Dublin	28	0	0	28
9	Letterkenny University Hospital		28	9	12	50
10	University Limerick Hospitals Group	Limerick	24	27	64	81
11	South Tipperary General Hospital	Tipperary	21	3	15	27
12	Mowlam Healthcare Services Unlimited Company	Limerick	19	27	4	118
13	Cuala Senior Care Limited	Dublin	18	10	13	38
14	L. Lynch and Co Limited	Dublin	18	0	0	22
15	Actavo (Ireland) Limited	Dublin	17	0	1	21

New to permits

287 employers took their first ever permit in June

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

Employer	County	Permits
Attentius Associates Limited	Dublin	13
Gairdin Glas Landscaping Limited	Clare	5
Sushigo Limited	Dublin	4
Eco Scene Ltd	Wicklow	3
Premier Mechanical Installations Ireland Limited	Westmeath	3
Walsh Engineering & Concrete Work Limited		3
Able Healthcare Ltd		2
Aim Hospitality Limited		2
Ardhealy Supermarket Limited		2
Ardrostig Holdings Plaza Limited		2

Where

Permits by county in June

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

Dublin (483 employers)

1,184

Cork (112 employers)

245

Kildare (38 employers)

151

Offaly (6 employers)

134

Limerick (30 employers)

105

Meath (29 employers)

94

Louth (16 employers)

82

Waterford (16 employers)

76

Galway (32 employers)

73

Donegal (17 employers)

57

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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.

Permit Pulse: June 2026