Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 10 May 2022
417. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the percentage of social media posts made on each of his Departmental social media accounts 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. [23049/22]
View answerMy Department takes its obligations under the Official Languages Act 2003 seriously, and we are committed to providing services in both official languages, including communications campaigns promoting the Irish language at home and overseas around International Mother Language Day, Seachtain na Gaeilge, and European Day of Languages. In terms of social media, given the fact that the Department’s outreach is primarily targeted at foreign audiences, there is a limited scope for social media posts exclusively in Irish. Instead therefore we usually provide Irish language posts with some English text included to ensure that the context and meaning of posts is understood abroad.
|
Platform |
Irish (Exclusively |
Irish (Featured) |
|
|
1.10% |
6.45% |
|
|
0.50% |
19.60% |
|
|
0% |
14.29% |
