Written answers

Friday, 6 September 2019

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Property Registration Authority Data

Photo of Róisín ShortallRóisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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1912. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount collected in search fees by the Land Registry in 2018; and the cost of eradicating search fees on its data sets. [36705/19]

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The Land Registry Map is available online and may be searched free of charge. In 2018 there were 2,568,068 online map searches carried out in this manner. Name and area searches incur a €5 fee as do inspections of ownership details on a Folio. The relevant fees received by the Property Registration Authority for 2018 are set out in the following table. All fees are remitted to the Exchequer.

Land Registry servicesFee2018 VolumesFees Received 2018
Online Map SearchNo charge2,568,068€0
Name Search€5.00140,374€701,870
Area Search€5.0013,001€65,005
Total€766,875
View Ownership Details on Folio (in PDF format)€5.00977,131€4,885,655
Total for Searches and subsequent viewing of Folios€5,652,530

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