S.I. No. 64/2025 - Employment Permits (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 11th March, 2025.

I, PETER BURKE, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 4 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 15 , 18 , 19 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 49 , 50 and 63 of the Employment Permits Act 2024 (No. 17 of 2024), hereby make the following regulations:

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Employment Permits (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025.

Commencement

2. These Regulations come into operation on 10 March 2025.

Definitions

3. In these Regulations “Principal Regulations” means the Employment Permits Regulations 2024 ( S.I. No. 444 of 2024 ).

Amendment of Schedule 3 to Principal Regulations

4. Schedule 3 to the Principal Regulations is amended by substituting for the entry at SOC-3 number 243 the following entry:

“

SOC-3	Categories of Employment	SOC-4	Employment
243	Architects, Town Planners and Surveyors	2431	Architect
		2432	Town Planning Officer
		2433	Quantity Surveyor
		2435	Architectural Technologist
		2436	• Construction Project Manager • Commercial Manager

”.

Amendment of Schedule 5 to Principal Regulations

5. Schedule 5 (as amended by Regulation 6 of the Employment Permits (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2024 ( S.I. No. 598 of 2024 )) to the Principal Regulations is amended, in the entry for “Care workers or home carer”—

(a) in Column 2, by substituting “1134” for “500”, and

(b) in Column 3, by substituting “10th March 2025” for “2nd September 2024”.

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

4 March, 2025.

PETER BURKE,

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These Regulations are made under the Employment Permits Act 2024 . They amend the Employment Permits Regulations 2024 by increasing the quota of General Employment Permits for employment as a care worker or home carer by 1000 permits and adding the occupation of town planning officer to the critical skills occupations list.

These Regulations may be cited as the Employment Permits (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025.