Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 12 July 2022
387. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount collected by the Land Registry in respect of fees chargeable for searches and urgent searches in the past two years to date in 2022. [37123/22]
View answerThe Property Registration Authority (PRA), which is under the aegis of my Department, continued to maintain a high level of service to support a robust property market throughout the period of COVID-19 restrictions.
Landdirect.ie is an online service, provided by the PRA, to enable the public to search a map and identify a property with corresponding folio numbers from the National Land Registry. There is no charge to search online and view a limited amount of information relating to a property, such as the folio number and any pending applications for registration. As reported in the PRA Annual Report 2021, activity on landdirect.ie amounted to approximately 12.5 million events in 2021, an increase of 16.6% over 2020.
|
NO. OF ACTIONS |
2020 |
2021 |
|
Plan selected on map and details displayed |
7,549,997 |
8,774,336 |
|
Property searches |
2,184,715 |
2,587,840 |
|
Folios viewed |
876,162 |
1,001,804 |
|
Number of Copy Folios/Copy Folios and Title Plans ordered |
102,996 |
131,647 |
|
TOTAL ACTIVITY |
10,713,870 |
12,495,627 |
A Copy of a Folio is open to the public to view for a fee of €5, or to request a certified copy of the Folio / Title Plans for a fee of €40. Any person entitled to inspect a copy of an Instrument can request a copy for a fee of €40.
Fees collected for applications for Copy Folio and Copy Instruments combined are detailed below, broken out by online applications using the paperless ‘P’ process or postal (paper) applications using the ‘C’ application process. Please note that the PRA cannot provide a further breakdown of fees collected based on whether the search was considered urgent or otherwise.
Members of the public can search records at the Registry of Deeds in a number of ways: Official Search (by a Registry Officer), Hand Search (by an individual), or Online. In line with Government restrictions, the Registry of Deeds building was closed to public access for a period of time over the past 2 years. However, all copying and official search services remained available to customers.
The fees collected for all types of searches combined at the Registry of Deeds are outlined by year below.
|
APPLICATION TYPE |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 YTD |
|
|
C Applications |
€806,035 |
€876,000 |
€250,970 |
|
|
P Applications (Online) |
€4,185,040 |
€5,413,945 |
€3,040,845 |
|
|
Registry of Deeds Searches |
€649,476 |
€842,910 |
€481,692 |
|
|
TOTAL FEES |
€5,640,551 |
€7,132,855 |
€3,773,507 |
