Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 495: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of money the Land Registry paid into central Exchequer funds each year for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18212/08]

Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 496: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of money the Land Registry received from central Exchequer funds each year for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18213/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 495 and 496 together.

The figures sought by the Deputy are available from the Revised Books of Estimates for each of the years in question. Insofar as 2007 is concerned, the total amount of fees received by the Authority was €79.7m. Cash expenditure on the Authority's Vote in that year was €41.5m. As pointed out in the response to Parliamentary Questions 401 and 402 of 29 April 2008, however, it would be misleading to compare fee income with cash outlay only for the purposes of determining whether the Authority operate on a self-financing basis. Any such determination would have to include the full costs, including indirect costs, of items such as pension provision, services from other Departments and so on.