James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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146. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the waiting times for the key functions of the Land Registry including the stamping of deeds, registering of conveyances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27765/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed that the Property Registration Authority (PRA) is currently operating a high level of service.  In this regard, applications for registration can be lodged as usual through the post or DX and are being processed in order of priority.  Urgent applications are processed expeditiously upon request, on a case by case basis.

For the month of August 2020, the following is the case.

I am further informed that all of the PRA's electronic services continue to be available at landdirect.ie and eRegistration.ie.  Moreover, requests for Certified Copy Folios with Map and Copy Instruments can be made online via the PRA's landdirect.ie service or by post.  Plain copy orders of Memorials/ROD Applications are being processed by the Registry of Deeds.

Registrations in the Registry of Deeds are completed within seven days of receipt.

The arrear of applications on hand in the Land Registry has increased by 26 per cent when compared to the end of August 2019, primarily due to the impact of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.  As applications for registration are often complex, necessitating numerous legal queries, it is not possible to give an estimate of the potential delays.  However, as the number of applications being lodged is decreasing, response times will improve over time.