Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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1061. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if family members or members of the public are entitled to view deeds of transfer held by the Property Registration Authority of Ireland under rule 188(8) of the Land Registration Rules 1972 or any other rules; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37326/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Access to Land Registry instruments held by the Property Registration Authority is governed by Rule 159 of the Land Registration Rules 2012 (S.I. No. 483 of 2012), which replaced Rule 188 of the Land Registration Rules 1972. The Rule provides that the registered owner of property and any person authorised by such owner, or by an order of the court or by the provisions of the Land Registration Rules, but no other person, may inspect a document filed in the Registry on a dealing or transaction with the property of the owner. Accordingly, there is no automatic right of access to deeds of transfer by family members of the owner of the property or by members of the public.