1626. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether national planning guidelines specific to utility scale ground mounted solar photovoltaic developments have been, or are proposed to be, issued under the Planning and Development Act 2024; whether the absence of such dedicated guidelines means that planning authorities are currently determining major solar applications without a nationally consistent policy framework; if he considers the variation in policy approaches across County Development Plans for example, where some county plans explicitly resist the loss of productive agricultural land to solar development whilst others contain only general or ambiguous policy objectives to be acceptable in the context of the proper planning and sustainable development of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23560/26]

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1626. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether national planning guidelines specific to utility scale ground mounted solar photovoltaic developments have been, or are proposed to be, issued under the Planning and Development Act 2024; whether the absence of such dedicated guidelines means that planning authorities are currently determining major solar applications without a nationally consistent policy framework; if he considers the variation in policy approaches across County Development Plans for example, where some county plans explicitly resist the loss of productive agricultural land to solar development whilst others contain only general or ambiguous policy objectives to be acceptable in the context of the proper planning and sustainable development of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23560/26]

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