Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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150. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons who received a general employment permit for a sector (details supplied) since the start of 2017 who applied for and were granted a new employment permit with a different employer while in Ireland within the first 12 months of their original employment permit. [52749/22]

Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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151. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons who received a general employment permit for a sector (details supplied) since the start of 2017 who applied for and were granted a new employment permit with a different employer while in Ireland to date. [52750/22]

Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 150 and 151 together.

The majority of employment permits issued to this sector are new employment permits for individuals who come to Ireland to work from outside the State.

This table below sets out the number of permits issued to foreign nationals in this sector, who were already in the State and were holders of a General Employment Permit when the application was submitted. It should be noted that this sector is subject to a quota system.

The number of Reactivation Employment Permits issued in this sector in each year from 2017 to 2022 is also included below. Reactivation Employment Permits are designed for situations where a foreign national who entered the State on a valid employment permit but who fell out of the system through no fault of their own or who has been badly treated or exploited in the workplace, to work legally again.

To supply details of the number of General Employment Permit applications granted in respect of a different employer within the first 12 months of having been granted their original employment permit would not be possible to complete within the timeframe allowable as it would require a manual check of all the applications for the sector on the system.