Holly Cairns
Question:
544. Deputy Holly Cairns asked 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 2022 and 30 April 2023, inclusive; the percentage of same that feature bilingual translations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23023/23]
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The information requested by the Deputy is being collated by the Department and a reply will be forwarded within 10 working days.
As regards the 12 State Bodies under the aegis of my Department, the information requested is an operational matter for the State Bodies themselves. I have referred the Deputy’s question to the Agencies and have requested that a response should issue within 10 days.
The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 51.
I advise the Deputy that the Department currently 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 www.gov.ie/agriculture enables users to view certain documents in either Irish or English.
As regards posts to official Departmental social media accounts in the period from 1 May 2022 to 30 April 2023, 0.95% of Facebook posts, 0.32% of Twitter posts and 0.98% of LinkedIn posts were exclusively in Irish and none were bilingual.
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 referred the question to the Agencies and have requested that a response should issue within 10 days.
