Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion

1:00 pm

Photo of Marie Louise O'DonnellMarie Louise O'Donnell (Independent)
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There is an emphasis that everything happens through Twitter and once it is on Twitter or starling that is enough but I am not too sure. There is nothing like simple information in an office - simple, clear information on a wall. The Minister was here four years ago when we had this conversation about the creative aspects of communication that could be used. It was used very successfully by the banks in their good and very bad days. It is simple, informative, clever information that we can see is necessary. There is nothing even like the shop notice board. The number of people who will find something on a board in a shop and get a job from it is surprising. To use simple information in an Intreo office or where people congregate is the best way to do it. Twitter will not save the world. It is etherised. I do not think only looking at social media is the right way to go. There are other very different ways.