Working and moving to Ireland runs mainly through the employment permits system operated by the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, alongside a separate immigration registration process run by the Department of Justice's Immigration Service Delivery. This set links only official government, state-agency and regulator pages, each checked to load and match its description, plus a clearly separated section of large private job boards.
The employment permits system overview and the individual permit-type pages, all on enterprise.gov.ie (DETE), plus the separate visa/preclearance and immigration-registration process on irishimmigration.ie.
The two statutory lists that gate most permits — occupations eligible for Critical Skills status, and occupations barred from any employment permit — plus the classification system and the 2025 review that fed the current lists.
Both lists were revised by Statutory Instrument 213 of 2026, effective 13 May 2026 — always check the effective date on the page before relying on it.
Ireland has no current 'opted-in employer' register — the Trusted Partner Initiative that once served that purpose was discontinued (see the correction above). This is the live equivalent: how an employer sets up on Employment Permits Online, and the labour market needs test rules a General Employment Permit application must satisfy.
Do not present the Trusted Partner Initiative as active — it is not, and no register of it survives online.
Minimum annual remuneration figures by permit type, and the multi-year roadmap for phased increases from March 2026.
Thresholds are being increased in stages from 1 March 2026 under the roadmap below — check the current figure on the specific permit-type page rather than relying on any cached number.
QQI/NARIC Ireland compares foreign academic qualifications to the Irish framework; separately, regulated professions must register with their own statutory regulator before practising.
A NARIC comparability statement is advisory only — it is not the same as professional registration, which each regulator handles independently.
Official regional bodies — IDA Ireland's national investment site plus the local authority-run Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs), grouped by region for anyone weighing where in Ireland to work.
State recruitment for the civil service, health service, teaching and local authorities.
Some public-sector roles are restricted to EU/EEA citizens or those with existing permission to work — check eligibility on each listing.
Large, well-known private job boards, kept separate from the official sections above since they are commercial platforms, not government or state-agency sites.
These are commercial listings platforms, included for completeness only.
The practical sequence after arrival: PPS number, immigration registration, tax registration, healthcare, renting and driving licence exchange.
Directory of official and semi-official sources, compiled 2026-08-26. Links are to the issuing body wherever one exists. This page states no eligibility, processing time or fee, and is not immigration advice — rules change, and the issuing authority is always the current source.
Your own government runs the register of licensed recruiters, the emigration clearance and the welfare fund that apply before you leave. Those pages are written from that side.
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