Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 24 Mar 1998

Vol. 488 No. 7

Written Answers. - Repossession and Recoveries.

Tom Enright

Question:

351 Mr. Enright asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the total number of cases before circuit courts which are listed or are pending for hearing in which building societies, banks and other financial institutions are seeking repossession and recovery of family homes; if he will give details of these applications for each county; and the total number of orders granted by the courts to these financial institutions in this regard during the past 12 months. [7046/98]

Tom Enright

Question:

352 Mr. Enright asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the total number of cases before circuit courts which are listed or are pending for hearing in which building societies, banks and other financial institutions are seeking repossession and recovery of dwelling houses and apartments; if he will give details of these applications for each county; and the total number of orders granted by the courts to these financial institutions in this regard during the past 12 months. [7047/98]

Tom Enright

Question:

353 Mr. Enright asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the total number of cases before circuit courts which are listed or are pending for hearing in which building societies, banks and other financial institutions are seeking repossession and recovery of family farms; if he will give details of these applications for each county; and the total number of orders granted by the courts to these financial institutions in this regard during the past 12 months. [7048/98]

Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform (Mr. O'Donoghue)

I propose to take Questions Nos. 351 to 353 inclusive.

The information sought in the Deputy's questions is not readily available and the compilation of this information would involve the allocation of scarce staff resources. However, I have been furnished with information in relation to court orders for possession of lands and premises lodged in sheriffs' offices for execution which is included in the following table.

I should point out that not all orders granted by the courts are lodged with sheriffs for execution. In addition, in many cases where orders are lodged with sheriffs for execution, the order is returned unexecuted following resolution of the matters at issue between the parties and, in addition, requests are received by the Sheriffs to defer execution of an order while discussions aimed at resolving matters between parties take place.

	The Number of Orders Lodged by Various Bodies
County	The total number of orders lodged in Sheriffs' Offices in 1997 for execution	Banks	Building Societies	Other Financial Institutions	Others (including Local Authorities)	The total number of such orders executed to date
CARLOW	6	nil	4	1	1	2
CAVAN	8	nil	5	nil	3	1
CLARE	25	5	7	nil	13	9
CORK CITY	114	1	8	nil	105	20
CORK COUNTY	83	18	34	1	30	13
DONEGAL	19	nil	16	nil	3	8
DUBLIN CITY	175	1	51	4	119	88
DUBLIN COUNTY	135	1	69	nil	65	38
GALWAY	60	5	37	3	15	14
KERRY	36	3	17	4	12	4
KILDARE	35	nil	12	nil	23	7
KILKENNY	8	1	4	nil	3	3
LAOIS	15	nil	7	nil	8	5
LEITRIM	3	2	nil	nil	1	1
LIMERICK	58	1	20	1	36	15
LONGFORD	7	nil	5	nil	2	2
LOUTH	24	1	10	nil	13	8
MAYO	30	1	19	nil	10	4
MEATH	39	nil	23	nil	16	5
MONAGHAN	18	nil	16	nil	2	3
OFFALY	26	1	17	nil	8	4
ROSCOMMON	18	2	10	nil	6	5
SLIGO	4	1	2	nil	1	nil
TIPPERARY	44	2	12	1	29	3
WATERFORD	33	1	15	1	16	9
WESTMEATH	34	nil	26	8	nil	7
WEXFORD	19	nil	8	2	9	4
WICKLOW	19	nil	16	1	2	6
TOTAL	1,095	47	470	27	551	288