Social Media

Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Questions (884)

Gary Gannon

Question:

884. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the percentage of social media video accessible, such as providing the information or activities posted on each of his Department’s social media accounts, or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under its remit, including closed captioning and subtitling and Irish Sign Language translations, between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024, inclusive. [14053/25]

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Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

It is the policy of my department to include closed captioning on videos. All videos posted on the Department's social media accounts from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024 are captioned. None include ISL interpretation.

The information in respect of the state bodies within the scope of the Deputy’s question, is not held by my department. Contact details for these bodies are set out in the following table should the Deputy wish to contact them directly with his query.

Contact E-Mail Addresses for State Bodies under the Remit of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Name of Body	Dedicated Email address for the Members of the Oireachtas	Designated Official Responsible for assisting Oireachtas Members
Higher Education Authority	Oireachtas@hea.ie	Padraic Mellett*
Grangegorman Development Agency	Communications@ggda.ie	nora.rahill@ggda.ie
SOLAS	oireachtasinfo@solas.ie	Maria Walsh maria.walshe@solas.ie
Skillnets Ireland	oireachtasmembers@skillnetireland.ie	tracey.donnery@skillnetireland.ie
Quality and Qualifications Ireland	ceo@qqi.ie	ceo@qqi.ie
Léargas – The Exchange Bureau	oireachtas@leargas.ie	fbroughan@leargas.ie
Research Ireland	oireachtasqueries@researchireland.ie	Donna McCabe