Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 24 January 2024
131. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the percentage of social media videos posted on her Departmental social media accounts or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit, that included closed captioning/subtitling and Irish sign language translations between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023, inclusive. [3373/24]
View answerMy Department is committed to ensuring that members of the public can readily access the messages we are communicating.
Between January 1 2023 and December 31 2023, inclusive, 90.15 % of videos posted on my Department’s social media channels were close captioned / subtitled.
Irish Sign Language is an option used primarily in live and/or livestreamed events, such as the webinar I hosted in December on the Basic Income for the Arts pilot scheme. For other videos, subtitling is used. My Department delivered very few live-streamed events in 2023; as such 0.27% of all videos had ISL.
Regarding bodies and agencies under my Department’s remit, these are operational matters for the agencies themselves, and the Department does not have this information.
