asked the Minister for Justice if he will arrange for the decentralisation of the Land Registry Office and establish provincial offices in Sligo, Galway, Limerick, Cork and Waterford.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Land Registry Office.
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The Land Registry is decentralised already in so far as, under the land registration rules, the local offices of the registry, namely, the offices of the country registrars, are empowered to arrange for the transmission to and from the central office in Dublin of documents in connection with registration. In addition duplicates of the freehold and leasehold registers for the particular county as well as an index of the names of registered owners are maintained in the local offices.
Presumably what the Deputy has in mind however is the setting up of regional offices which would fulfil all the functions in respect of a particular region at present fulfilled by the central office. This is a complex question which involves detailed consideration of a number of factors, the obvious ones being cost and efficiency. The study group which I reconstituted in April, 1974, to review the organisation and procedures in the Land Registry will furnish me with a report on the matter in due course.