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Permit Pulse: August 2026

Ireland issued 3,696 employment permits in August 2026, down 4% on July and up 39% on August 2025.

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The month in numbers

August 2026 at a glance

This month

3,696

Down 4% on the month before

Same month last year

2,661

Up 39% on it

Year to date

26,629

Up 33% on 2025

Employers with a permit this month

1,804

274 for the first time

Twelve months to August

Aug
3,696
Jul
3,835
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 25
2,627

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 3,696 employment permits in August 2026, down 4% on July and up 39% on August 2025.

That brings the year to 26,629 permits, up 33% on the same point in 2025.

1,804 employers received at least one permit in the month, 274 of them for the first time.

Parade Resources Limited took the most, with 44.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,302), Cork (247), Kildare (134).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in August

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

#EmployerCountyAugMonth beforeAug 20252026 to date
1Parade Resources LimitedWexford445049
2Bus Átha Cliath - Dublin BusDublin4206145
3University Limerick Hospitals GroupLimerick424132164
4Google Ireland LimitedDublin414032239
5Bernard Kavanagh and Sons Limited293936
6Ernst & Young282328128
7Tata Consultancy Services LimitedDublin282422135
8Electricity Supply Board269652
9Murphy International LimitedKildare2521253
10Allpro Security Services Ireland LimitedGalway24140139
11Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin23202694
12Knockrobin Nursing Home LimitedWexford222553
13Silver Stream Healthcare Management LimitedMeath2113390
14Costern Unlimited CompanyDublin19398201
15QT Technologies Ireland LimitedDublin191311116

New to permits

274 employers took their first ever permit in August

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

EmployerCountyPermits
Infinite Payment Technology LimitedDublin6
Liber Carpentry LtdMonaghan5
Red Barn Film Productions DACGalway5
Tg Sporthorses LimitedSligo5
Bonmahon Joinery LtdWaterford4
Ballyfree Garden Sheds Ltd3
Conor Phelan Construction Limited3
DMG Motors Ltd3
ECR Sports Enterprises Company Limited By Guarantee3
Innovate Facilities Limited3

Where

Permits by county in August

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

Dublin (538 employers)
1,302
Cork (115 employers)
247
Kildare (44 employers)
134
Galway (56 employers)
134
Limerick (45 employers)
133
Meath (42 employers)
114
Wexford (23 employers)
109
Kerry (23 employers)
49
Waterford (14 employers)
43
Cavan (17 employers)
41

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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.