Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of social media posts made on each of her Departmental social media accounts or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit that were exclusively in Irish between 1 May 2021 and 30 April 2022, inclusive; the percentage of same that feature bilingual translations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23045/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The Department regularly makes available English and Irish versions of all circulars, press releases and announcements on its social media accounts. There were 629 posts across the Department's social channels for the period in question, of which 178 were in Irish and had a corresponding English version. This is 28% of the total posts.

The Department does not translate its retweets from other entities.

The Department does not hold the statistics for its public bodies and agencies.

Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of social media posts made on each of her Departmental social media accounts or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit that were exclusively in languages besides English or Irish between 1 May 2021 and 30 April 2022, inclusive; the percentage of same that featured languages besides English or Irish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23063/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The Department is committed to making information available for the education sector in an accessible format using appropriate language.  For the period in question, there were 629 posts on the Department's social media channels and there were 12 (1.9%) posts in languages other than English or Irish. These relate to the information campaign on Covid symptoms for children in school, which supported the roll-out of this multilingual campaign. The material was provided for school  communities and was provided on gov.ie, through the Department's direct channels with schools and with the education partners.

This was then supported with reference to this material on the Department's social media channels. 

The Department does not hold the statistics for its public bodies and agencies.

Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of social media videos posted on each of her Departmental social media accounts or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit included closed captioning and or subtitling between 1 May 2021 and 30 April 2022, inclusive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23081/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The Department is committed to making information on its social media as widely accessible as possible. For the period outlined, the Department posted 120 videos across its various social media channels. This includes videos with graphics and text which are designed to be easy to read for everyone. 70 of the videos posted featured subtitling or closed captioning, which is 58%.

The Department also publishes an ISL Version of its English language videos where possible.

The Department does not hold the statistics for its public bodies and agencies.