Ms Emer Dalton:

In terms of communications and the work of Civil Defence, many of the local units have their own social media accounts in order to get the message out locally. There is also a national Civil Defence Twitter account which supports the work locally to try to expand the message and the number of people getting it. Then there are other national activities the Department tries to support. For example, there are plans to attend the National Ploughing Championships this year to increase awareness about Civil Defence and obviously on National Service Day across all the front-line services. Within the Department, we are also trying to move to an infographic format in how we communicate what we do to try to capture people's attention. We are conscious there is a lot of data out there. We have tried to move to an infographic format and it seems to have gained good traction with people as well.