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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Rights of Way Registration (12 Dec 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I can inform the Deputy that there are two systems of registration in Ireland managed and controlled by the Property Registration Authority (PRA). Where the property affected by the right of way is unregistered land, the process for registering a deed of Grant of Right of Way is set out in the PRA’s  Practice Direction “Registry of Deeds Procedures” available on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Boundary Disputes (16 Sep 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Property Registration Authority (PRA) that it is not aware of any recent increases relating to boundary disputes. The research referred to by the Deputy comprises academic publications completed as part of third level studies and has, I understand, been considered by the PRA. Given the low participation rate in the associated studies and the admission of use of anecdotal...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (25 Nov 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: Although the Property Registration Authority (PRA) falls under the aegis of my Department, the PRA has its own Vote (Vote 23), of which its Chief Executive Officer is the Accounting Officer. In addition, the PRA operates under a delegated staffing sanction from my Department for filling posts up to the grade of Principal Officer. The staffing complement of the PRA as at 31 October 2021 was...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Registration Authority Administration (3 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: Appeals to the court, under Section 19 of the Registration of Title Act 1964, must be distinguished from court proceedings in which the Property Registration Authority (PRA) is a party or where it assists the court by the production of documents or the provision of expert testimony on registration practices and procedures. When the PRA decides to grant to refuse an application based on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration Authority (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: I understand that the digitisation of the Property Registration Authority (PRA) map record took place between December 2005 and August 2010. During this period, approximately 2.5 million registered land parcels, comprising approximately 15 million line entities, were digitised from 36,000 PRA paper map sheets. The project involved much more than transferring registered land parcels from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (14 Jul 2021)

Peter Burke: I am informed that the digitisation of the Property Registration Authority (PRA) map record took place between December 2005 and August 2010. During this period, approximately 2.5 million registered land parcels, comprising approximately 15 million line entities, were digitised from 36,000 PRA paper map sheets. Having completed the digitisation of the PRA map record, a comprehensive...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Registration of Title (17 Jan 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006, the Property Registration Authority (PRA) was established as and from 4 November 2006. The PRA replaced the Registrar of Deeds and Titles as the registering authority in relation to property registration in Ireland and, subject to the above Act, is independent in the performance of its functions. A service for Oireachtas members was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (18 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006, the Property Registration Authority (PRA) was established as and from 4 November 2006. The PRA replaced the Registrar of Deeds and Titles as the registering authority in relation to property registration in Ireland and, subject to the above Act, is independent in the performance of its functions. A service for Oireachtas members was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (19 Dec 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006, the Property Registration Authority (PRA) was established as and from 4 November 2006. The PRA replaced the Registrar of Deeds and Titles as the registering authority in relation to property registration in Ireland and, subject to the above Act, is independent in the performance of its functions. A service for Oireachtas members was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration Authority (30 Jun 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I understand that, as part of an escalated recovery plan, the Property Registration Authority (PRA) is now providing a full range of registration services.  However, the PRA is currently experiencing an increased backlog due to the impact of the Covid-19 crisis, but as the number of applications being lodged is decreasing, response times will improve over time.  The PRA's...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (19 Jan 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Property Registration Authority (PRA) maintains a title register and the Land Registry map is not, except as provided by legislation, conclusive as to boundaries or extent. A specific note to that effect appears on the National Land Register. This has been the position since the inception of the title registration system in 1891. The registration mapping framework maintained by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (30 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: Title Deeds lodged in the Property Registration Authority (PRA) concerning registered lands are filed in the PRA’s Central Filing Repository in Santry, Dublin. This repository contains approximately 7 million completed applications (instruments). All of the records are original, physical, hard-copy, paper documents dating mainly from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Under...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration Authority Administration (6 Sep 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Property Registration Authority (PRA) is the State organisation responsible for the registration of property transactions in Ireland. The PRA manages and controls the Land Registry and the Registry of Deeds registering what State guaranteed titles of land. The PRA expects to complete over 250,000 Land Registry transactions in 2019, an increase of 49,000 over 2018. Applications...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (7 Apr 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The Property Registration Authority (PRA) maintains a title register and the Land Registry map is not, except as provided by legislation, conclusive as to boundaries or extent. A specific note to that effect appears on the National Land Register, and this has been the position since the inception of the title registration system in 1891. The registration mapping framework maintained by...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Rights of Way (14 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: The Property Registration Authority (PRA) is responsible for registering ownership of land in the State, including appurtenant rights attaching to land such as rights of access and rights of way. This statutory function is conferred on the PRA under the Registration of Deeds and Title Acts 1964 and 2006. These Acts make provision for the making of more detailed statutory rules setting out the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Registration (29 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I can inform the Deputy that the digitisation of the Property Registration Authority (PRA) map record took place between December 2005 and August 2010. During this period approximately 2.5 million registered land parcels, made up of approximately 15 million line entities were digitised from 36,000 PRA paper map sheets. Having completed the digitisation of the PRA map record a...

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (18 Nov 2010)

Dermot Ahern: ...of my Department are set out below: Reports / reviews commissioned in 2008 - Report following technical evaluation of tenders for a new Local Area Network for the Property Registration Authority (PRA) - Technical study of consolidation and virtualisation of the PRA's computer environment - Report relating to long-term storage and management of PRA paper records - Report following audit...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Registration Authority Administration (23 Nov 2017)

Charles Flanagan: Further to parliamentary question numbers 36 of 30 March 2017 and 83 of 22 February 2017, I am advised by that the Property Registration Authority (PRA) which manages the Land Registry and Registry of Deeds, that some 200,000 Land Registry transactions will be completed in 2017, which is approximately 5% more than were completed in 2016. At the end of October, there were 103,391 cases on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (18 Jan 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: In common with many other public service organisations, the Property Registration Authority (PRA) continues to deal with the adverse impact that COVID-19 has had on service delivery. Despite the PRA implementing innovative ways to deliver its registration services throughout the period of restrictions, an accumulation of applications for registration inevitably arose. Conversely, the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Seaweed Harvesting Licences (13 May 2020)

Eoghan Murphy: A claim to register rights of the kind referred to can be made to the Property Registration Authority (PRA) under Section 49A of the Registration of Title Act 1964. Further information on the Prescriptive Easements/Profit-a-Prendre scheme operated by the PRA is available on its Practice Direction entitled Registration of Easements and Profits-a-Prendre Acquired by Prescription Under Section...