Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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228. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of posts made on each of his Departmental social media accounts and platforms that were exclusively in Irish between 1 May 2020 and 30 April 2021, inclusive; the percentage of posts made on each of his Departmental social media accounts and platforms that featured bilingual translations in Irish and English between 1 May 2020 and 30 April 2021, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26579/21]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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My Department is committed to ensuring that information and services are accessible to all citizens. Our Irish Language Scheme sets out our commitments in terms of providing information, services and participation through Irish. We are developing a new Scheme to be in place by the end of 2021 and we have a new Irish Language Officer working in the Communications and Media Relations Division who will work with the social media team to ensure that we are growing our bilingual and Irish language content across all platforms.On social media, my Department posted once in the period in question exclusively in Irish (0.28% of total posts) and 4 posts were published bilingually (1.11% of total posts). This is out of a total of 361 posts across Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. My Department will increase these figures for 2021. It is also worth noting that certain documents are published by my Department bilingually on gov.ie, including policy documents and public consultations. In some cases where my Department uses social media to raise awareness of policy initiatives, the information being highlighted by the post or tweet is available bilingually on gov.ie.