Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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350. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the number of court actions for home repossessions commenced by financial institutions in each month since the beginning of 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52893/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that, under the provisions of the Courts Service Act 1998, management of the courts is the responsibility of the Courts Service which is independent in exercising its functions, which include the provision of information on the courts system. However, in order to be of assistance to the Deputy, I have had enquiries made and the Courts Service has informed me that they do not compile the data in the format requested by the Deputy. Court statistics in respect of court possessions are collected on a quarterly basis. The details are set out in the following tables.

High Court 2012

High Court 2013

*All actions in the High Court were commenced by Financial Institutions

**Statistics for the High Court for the last quarter 2013 are not yet compiled, however, statistics for October and November 2013 show that 39 new cases were initiated between the 1^st October and the 30^th November 2013.

***Statistics for the High Court are not broken down according to the type of property, they could relate to family homes, factories, farms or building sites.

Circuit Court 2012

Circuit Court 2013

*Statistics in respect of the number of cases commenced/initiated are not available from the Circuit Court

**Not all orders granted in the Circuit Court were granted to Financial Institutions.

**Statistics in respect of the Circuit Court for the last quarter 2013 are not yet compiled.