Written answers
Friday, 6 September 2019
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Property Registration Authority Data
Róisín 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]
Eoghan 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 services | Fee | 2018 Volumes | Fees Received 2018 |
---|---|---|---|
Online Map Search | No charge | 2,568,068 | €0 |
Name Search | €5.00 | 140,374 | €701,870 |
Area Search | €5.00 | 13,001 | €65,005 |
Total | €766,875 | ||
View Ownership Details on Folio (in PDF format) | €5.00 | 977,131 | €4,885,655 |
Total for Searches and subsequent viewing of Folios | €5,652,530 |
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