Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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110. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address the urgent need to introduce stricter regulations regarding associated State offices, such as county registrars and sheriffs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5652/17]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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County Registrars are officers of the court and are independent in the exercise of their functions and duties under statute and rules of court. County Registrars and Sheriffs are appointed by Government.

The County Registrar is a Statutory Officer of the Circuit Court, the higher of the two courts of local and limited jurisdiction within the courts system, which exercises first instance jurisdiction in civil proceedings and criminal proceedings on indictment, as well as an appellate jurisdiction in civil and criminal proceedings from the District Court.

The Sheriff (or County Registrar acting as Sheriff) is responsible to the Court for the Enforcement of the Court Orders and the law and procedures governing the execution of Court Orders is contained in the Enforcement of Court Orders Acts, 1926 to 1940 and the Rules of Court made thereunder, and I wish to inform the Deputy that I have no operational function in this matter.