Joe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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1612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is aware of the current delays in the land registry; the plans his Department has to help alleviate this as many people who are looking to build are being delayed by this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43291/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Tailte Éireann is an independent Government agency under the aegis of my Department. Tailte Éireann provide a property registration system, property valuation service, and national mapping and surveying infrastructure for the State. Under Section 8(6) of the Tailte Éireann Act 2022, Tailte Éireann is independent in the performance of its functions.

It is understood from Tailte Éireann that the continued increase in applications received for registration by Tailte Éireann year-on-year, and challenges in recruitment for some time now, have unfortunately contributed to an accumulation of applications for registration. To address this, Tailte Éireann embarked on a targeted recruitment campaign where a significant number of new staff have now been on-boarded which will allow Tailte Éireann to continue to reduce waiting times for registration services.

Tailte Éireann has advised that improvements have been made to date in throughput times, particularly in relation to cases that do not require mapping. I am confident that as the full complement of staff are successfully on-boarded, it will be in a position to reduce waiting times across all application types.

Outside of recruitment, every effort is being made by Tailte Éireann to reduce application processing times including implementation of the following efficiency driving measures:

• Revised procedures for more efficient handling of the large volume of applications which are lodged that are not in order to proceed to registration.
• Targeted approach to reduce the age profile of applications pending registration.
• Revised internal processes aimed at reducing the volume of applications on hand which are not in order to proceed and remain under query.
• An organisation-wide focus on reducing processing times with business process improvements now implemented across the organisation.