Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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86. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amounts collected in user fees by the Land Registry in each of the past five years; and the cost of eradicating search fees on its datasets. [17243/17]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The following table details the amounts collected in user fees by the Land Registry (which is managed and controlled by the Property Registration Authority) in the years 2012 to 2016:

Accordingly, based on the most recent full year (2016), the cost of eradicating search fees would be of the order of €3.6 million. It might be noted that all fees collected by the Property Registration Authority in respect of Land Registry activities are paid over to the Exchequer in full on a weekly basis.