Dan Neville (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of ownership of lands (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16858/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The Property Registration Authority is responsible for the management and control of the Land Registry and Registry of Deeds. When title or ownership is registered in the Land Registry the deeds are filed in the Registry and all relevant particulars concerning the property and its ownership are entered on folios which form the registers maintained in the Land Registry. In conjunctions with folios the Land Registry also maintains Land Registry maps.

To identify the ownership of a particular area of land requires that either the Folio Number of the registered title is known or that the area of interest can be identified clearly on the Land Registry map. Over the last number of years the Property Registration Authority has transferred all the paper records held as part of the Register onto an electronic database. This has been made available for inspection through the landdirect.ie portal, www.landdirect.ie. Through this portal the Land Registry map can be inspected and when the area is identified, the Folio Register, which identifies the registered owner, can be inspected. The Property Registration Authority website, www.prai.ie, gives further details of the services available in this regard.

I am advised by the Property Registration Authority that the information provided in the details supplementary to this Question was not sufficient to determine the ownership of the particular land referred to. However, the Deputy will be aware of the service by the Authority to T.D.s and Senators, which provides information on the current status of registration applications and other related matters, which was introduced in May 2006. Accordingly, the Deputy may wish to contact the Authority directly via that service with any further information which may be available to assist in definitively identifying the land which is of interest and to determine if the Authority can identify the current ownership of the land.