Written answers
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Department of An Taoiseach
Departmental Communications
Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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118. To ask the Taoiseach the percentage of social media videos posted on each of his Departmental social media accounts, or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit, that included closed captioning/subtitling between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023, inclusive; and the percentage of same that feature translations into Irish or another language. [27664/23]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The information sought by the Deputy in relation to the Department of the Taoiseach and the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) - which incorporates the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) - is set out in the tables below.
| Organic videos posted on MerrionStreet.ie social media accounts that include closed captioning/subtitling between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023, inclusive; the percentage of same that feature translations into Irish | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | Total no. of videos | No. of videos with closed captioning/subtitles | % of videos with closed captioning/subtitles | % of videos with speech or narrative that feature captioning/subtitles | No. of videos translated into Irish | % of videos translated into Irish |
| 85 | 36 | 42.35% | 100% | 11 | 12.94% | |
| 147 | 57 | 38.78% | 93.55% | 15 | 10.20% | |
| 39 | 31 | 79.49% | 100% | 1 | 2.56% | |
| 58 | 28 | 48.28% | 84.85% | 2 | 3.45% | |
| YouTube | 43 | 34 | 79.07% | 91.89% | 0 | 0% |
| TikTok | 28 | 10 | 35.71% | 62.50% | 0 | 0% |
| All Platforms | 400 | 196 | 49% | 91.63% | 29 | 7.25% |
| Organic videos posted on the National Economic & Social Council social media accounts that include closed captioning/subtitling between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023, inclusive; the percentage of same that feature translations into Irish | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | Total no. of videos | No. of videos with closed captioning/subtitles | % of videos with closed captioning/subtitles | % of videos with speech or narrative that feature captioning/subtitles | No. of videos translated into Irish | % of videos translated into Irish |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| YouTube | 1 | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0 | 0 |
| TikTok | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| All Platforms | 1 | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0 | 0 |
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