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The Irish Times Article Rating

State bodies to face increased pressure to sell sites to LDA for housing

Apr 28, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The Cabinet subcommittee on infrastructure will also meet on Monday, where Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers will tell Ministers that personnel will imminently be appointed to the new infrastructure division in his department.
52% : The review is to be delivered by June and will examine planning and legal issues, but also administrative burdens and EU requirements.
47% : Taoiseach Micheál Martin said on Sunday that "the big social issue of our day is housing", pointing to the establishment of a new strategic housing activation office and a new division in the Department of Public Expenditure looking at infrastructure.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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