Louis O'Hara (Galway East, Sinn Fein)
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1247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are specific development guidelines for the development of large-scale fossil-fuel-bio-fuel powered energy projects similar to the 2006 wind energy guidelines (details supplied); if not, whether his Department have any plans to develop or draft guidelines for such developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46394/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Responsibility for energy policy, including fossil fuels and biofuels, is a matter for the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment (DCEE).

The current planning system, provides a sufficiently robust policy and legislative framework to facilitate the proper planning and sustainable development of large scale developments, which may be considered on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the relevant County Development Plan and Government Policy as applicable.  In that context, there are currently no plans to introduce statutory planning guidelines for energy developments as specified.