Social Media

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 8 February 2023

Wednesday, 8 February 2023

Questions (144)

Neasa Hourigan

Question:

144. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage 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. [5573/23]

Written answers

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Corporately, my Department uses five social media accounts. In addition, there are approximately a further 40 social media accounts operated locally in my Department in areas such as our six National Parks; the LIFE Programme; National Inventory of Archaeological Heritage; National Monument Service; Marine Planning Ireland and Fire Safety Ireland. Given the number of these accounts, the compilation of the information requested would involve an inordinate amount of staff time and cost, thus, for the purposes of responding to the Question, the information provided will relate only to the social media accounts of the Department itself, and not accounts operated locally.

My Department has analysed the posts on each of the Departmental social media channels and the percentage posted with closed captions, subtitles, text narrative or ISL, between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022. My Department hosts videos containing voiceover which have been subtitled, as well as videos without any voiceover but containing text narratives. The reply below reflects both of these categories.

Twitter: 128 videos posted on Twitter, 85% of which contained subtitles or text narrative (109 videos). No videos contained closed captioning or ISL.

Facebook/Instagram: 175 videos were posted on Facebook and Instagram. 89% of these contained subtitles or text narrative (155 videos). No videos contained closed captioning or ISL.

Youtube: 61 videos were posted to YouTube in that timeframe. 97% of these contained subtitles or text narrative (59 videos). No videos contained closed captioning or ISL.

LinkedIn 21 videos were posted to Linkedin in that timeframe. 90% of these contained closed captions, subtitles or text narrative (19 videos). No videos contained ISL.

The information requested in relation to bodies under the aegis of my Department is a matter for the individual bodies concerned. Arrangements have been put in place by each Agency to facilitate the provision of information directly to members of the Oireachtas. The contact email address for each agency is set out in the following table:  

State Body	Contact E-mails
An Bord Pleanála	[e-mail]
An Fóram Uisce (the Water Forum)	[e-mail]
Docklands Oversight and Consultative Forum	[e-mail]
Ervia	[e-mail]
Gas Networks Ireland	[e-mail]
Heritage Council	[e-mail]
Housing Finance Agency	[e-mail]
Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency	[e-mail]
Uisce Éireann	[e-mail]
Land Development Agency	[e-mail]
Local Government Management Agency	[e-mail]
National Oversight and Audit Commission	[e-mail]
National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee	[e-mail]
Office of the Planning Regulator	[e-mail]
Ordnance Survey Ireland	[e-mail]
Property Registration Authority	[e-mail]
Pyrite Resolution Board	[e-mail]
Residential Tenancies Board	[e-mail]
Valuation Office	[e-mail]
Valuation Tribunal	[e-mail]
Water Advisory Body	[e-mail]
Waterways Ireland	[e-mail]