Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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862. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of social media posts made on each of his Departmental social media accounts or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under his 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 he will make a statement on the matter. [23042/22]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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Currently, the Department publishes its audited accounts or financial statements, as well as any document setting out policy proposals in Irish and English. In addition to meeting its obligations under Section 10 of the Official Languages Act 2003 to publish certain documents in both official languages simultaneously, the Department publishes other corporate documents, such as the Customer Charter and Customer Action Plan, the Farmers’ Charter of Rights and the Schemes and Services booklet, in both Irish and English. The Department publishes all Departmental press releases bilingually.

The Department's website has moved onto the gov.ie portal www.gov.ie/agriculture. This portal enables users to view certain documents in either Irish or English.

As regards posts to official Departmental social media accounts in the period from 1st May 2021 to 30th April 2022, 2.78% of the posts were exclusively in Irish and none were bilingual.

The Department’s third Irish Language Scheme came into effect on 1st April 2021.

As regards the 12 State Bodies under the aegis of the Department, the information requested is an operational matter for the State Bodies themselves. I have therefore referred the Deputy’s question to the Agencies and have requested that a response should issue to the Deputy within 10 days.

Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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863. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of social media posts made on each of his Departmental social media accounts or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under his 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 he will make a statement on the matter. [23060/22]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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I advise the Deputy that of the posts to the official Departmental social media accounts in the period from 1st May 2021 to 30th April 2022 none were exclusively in a language other than English or Irish.

As regards the 12 State Bodies under the aegis of the Department, the information requested is an operational matter for the State Bodies themselves. I have therefore referred the Deputy’s question to the Agencies and have requested that a response should issue to the Deputy within 10 days.

Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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864. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine 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 included closed captioning and or subtitling between 1 May 2021 and 30 April 2022, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23078/22]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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I advise the Deputy that 100% of videos posted on the official Departmental social media accounts in the period from 1st May 2021 to 30th April 2022 included closed captioning and or subtitles.

The Department's native videos are produced and delivered to ensure that the audience can access the content by using subtitles and alternative text on graphics.

For the Department’s live-streamed video content, the third party platform YouTube is used to stream text from their closed captioning software to automatically create captions for videos and to make content more accessible.

As regards the 12 State Bodies under the aegis of the Department, the information requested is an operational matter for the State Bodies themselves. I have therefore referred the Deputy’s question to the Agencies and have requested that a response should issue to the Deputy within 10 days.