Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 January 2019
289. Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when a work permit application by a company (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4397/19]
View answerThe Employment Permits section of my Department inform me that an application for a General Employment Permit for the person concerned was received on 12 December 2018.
It is currently taking six weeks to process applications for trusted partners and 15 weeks for standard applications. My Department is taking a number of steps to improve these processing times.
Ireland operates a managed, vacancy-led employment permit scheme with an occupation list system for in-demand occupations and those occupations where the evidence suggests that there is a ready source of labour available domestically or across the EEA. These lists of highly skilled and ineligible occupations are reviewed twice yearly in order to ensure that the employment permits scheme remains responsive to changes in economic circumstances and labour market conditions.
