Ireland by sector
Employment permits in P - Education
388 employment permits in 2026, 1.3% of the national total, ranked 16 of 26 by sector.
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What the numbers say
388 permits for P - Education by the end of September 2026, already 84% of the 464 issued in the whole of 2025.
At the current pace 2026 would finish around 517, up 11% on 2025.
The busiest full year on record was 2025 with 464 permits. In 2020 the figure was 208. That is a 2.2-fold rise.
Year by year
P - Education since 2020
208
2020
182
2021
18
2022
14
2023
357
2024
464
2025
388
2026
Month by month
2026
57
Jan
40
Feb
40
Mar
50
Apr
31
May
27
Jun
36
Jul
58
Aug
49
Sep
All sectors in 2026
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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.
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