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Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 13 June 2023

Tuesday, 13 June 2023

Questions (118)

Holly Cairns

Question:

118. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Taoiseach 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, that included closed captioning/subtitling between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023, inclusive; and the percentage of same that feature translations into Irish or another language. [27664/23]

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The information sought by the Deputy in relation to the Department of the Taoiseach and the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) - which incorporates the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) - is set out in the tables below.

Organic videos posted on MerrionStreet.ie social media accounts that include closed captioning/subtitling between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023, inclusive; the percentage of same that feature translations into Irish

Platform

Total no. of videos

No. of videos with closed captioning/subtitles

% of videos with closed captioning/subtitles

% of videos with speech or narrative that feature captioning/subtitles

No. of videos translated into Irish

% of videos translated into Irish

Facebook

85

36

42.35%

100%

11

12.94%

Twitter

147

57

38.78%

93.55%

15

10.20%

LinkedIn

39

31

79.49%

100%

1

2.56%

Instagram

58

28

48.28%

84.85%

2

3.45%

YouTube

43

34

79.07%

91.89%

0

0%

TikTok

28

10

35.71%

62.50%

0

0%

All Platforms

400

196

49%

91.63%

29

7.25%

Organic videos posted on the National Economic & Social Council social media accounts that include closed captioning/subtitling between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023, inclusive; the percentage of same that feature translations into Irish

Platform

Total no. of videos

No. of videos with closed captioning/subtitles

% of videos with closed captioning/subtitles

% of videos with speech or narrative that feature captioning/subtitles

No. of videos translated into Irish

% of videos translated into Irish

Facebook

0

0

0

0

0

0

Twitter

0

0

0

0

0

0

LinkedIn

0

0

0

0

0

0

Instagram

0

0

0

0

0

0

YouTube

1

1

100%

100%

0

0

TikTok

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

All Platforms

1

1

100%

100%

0

0

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