1629. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the national guidance or methodology planning authorities are required to apply when assessing the indirect visual and setting impacts of utility-scale renewable energy developments on monuments listed on the Record of Monuments and Places under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2004; whether it is considered adequate practice for an applicant's heritage impact assessment to conclude that impacts on a monument of acknowledged high visual sensitivity are negligible (details supplied); whether the National Monuments Service or the Heritage Council is consulted as a statutory consultee on planning applications where the development is located within the Zone of Theoretical Visibility of a Recorded Monument of national significance; whether he is satisfied that the current framework adequately protects the long-term setting of such monuments from incremental industrial-scale development in surrounding lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23568/26]

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1629. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the national guidance or methodology planning authorities are required to apply when assessing the indirect visual and setting impacts of utility-scale renewable energy developments on monuments listed on the Record of Monuments and Places under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2004; whether it is considered adequate practice for an applicant's heritage impact assessment to conclude that impacts on a monument of acknowledged high visual sensitivity are negligible (details supplied); whether the National Monuments Service or the Heritage Council is consulted as a statutory consultee on planning applications where the development is located within the Zone of Theoretical Visibility of a Recorded Monument of national significance; whether he is satisfied that the current framework adequately protects the long-term setting of such monuments from incremental industrial-scale development in surrounding lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23568/26]

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