1627. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the practical effect the EU (Planning and Development) (Renewable Energy) Regulations 2025, which transposed Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) into Irish law, will have on the weight a planning authority is required to give to its own county development plan policies when determining applications designated as RED III development; if the statutory presumption that renewable energy developments are in the overriding public interest as introduced by those regulations effectively requires a planning authority to override or discount its own adopted development plan policies on landscape character, protection of agricultural land and residential amenity; if he is satisfied that the current legislative framework, as transposed, adequately preserves the ability of planning authorities to refuse or materially condition large scale solar farm applications where genuine and evidenced adverse impacts have been demonstrated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23561/26]

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1627. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the practical effect the EU (Planning and Development) (Renewable Energy) Regulations 2025, which transposed Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) into Irish law, will have on the weight a planning authority is required to give to its own county development plan policies when determining applications designated as RED III development; if the statutory presumption that renewable energy developments are in the overriding public interest as introduced by those regulations effectively requires a planning authority to override or discount its own adopted development plan policies on landscape character, protection of agricultural land and residential amenity; if he is satisfied that the current legislative framework, as transposed, adequately preserves the ability of planning authorities to refuse or materially condition large scale solar farm applications where genuine and evidenced adverse impacts have been demonstrated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23561/26]

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