Written answers

Wednesday, 8 February 2023

Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport

Social Media

Photo of Neasa HouriganNeasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of social media videos posted on his Department's social media accounts or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under the remit of his Department, that included closed captioning or subtitling and Irish sign language translations between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022, inclusive. [5580/23]

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The Department of Transport operates four social media accounts across two platforms, Twitter and LinkedIn. The social media accounts of agencies under the remit of the Department are managed by the agencies themselves.

The social media accounts operated by the Department of Transport are:

- Department of Transport (Twitter, LinkedIn)

- Zero Emissions Vehicles Ireland (Twitter, LinkedIn)

The following table outlines content that included closed captioning/subtitling and Irish sign language translations between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022, inclusive.

Platform
Videos with Closed Captioning
Percentage of videos with captioning
Videos with Irish Sign Language Translation
Percentage of videos with Irish Sign Language Translation
Twitter (Department of Transport) 20 (of 67) 30% 0 (of 67) 0%
LinkedIn (Department of Transport) 14 (of 62) 30% 0 (of 62) 0%
Twitter (Zero Emission Vehicles Ireland) 2 (of 2) 100% 0 (of 2) 0%
LinkedIn (Zero Emission Vehicles Ireland) 2 (of 2) 100% 0 (of 2) 0%

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