Moore Welcomes First Inclusion of Irish Sign Language into Meath County Council Promotional Video Cllr. Ronan Moore has welcomed the production of Meath County Council’s first video employing Irish Sign Language (ISL). The video is aimed at those considering Meath as a location to build your future promoting the county as a place and space to thrive. Cllr. Moore who put forward a motion that was accepted by fellow members, in October 2021 calling on the Council to include ISL in its videos said: “I am really delighted to see the use of Irish Sign Language for the first time in a Meath County Council produced video and I believe the choice of video is particularly apt.” “In promoting the county as the place and space to strive, the layering of ISL into the video is symbolic in showing how the county
deeply values inclusivity. In proposing my motion, I had explained that Meath County Council has always prided itself in how we try to make the county as inclusive as possible.” He continued “As a result, I felt that by inputting ISL into our videos where possible, it would be one more example of how as a county we can put inclusion at our core.” “There is also a responsibility on our part. In Ireland, some 5,000 deaf people use ISL and a further 40,000 hard of hearing people also use ISL on some level.“ ”In part response to this, the government introduced the Irish Sign Language Act in 2017, making ISL an official language of the state, stating within it that “a public body shall do all that is reasonable to ensure that in-
terpretation into Irish Sign Language is provided.” Cllr Moore concluded by saying “As a result, in producing this first video, Meath County Council is meeting its responsibilities.”
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“Going forward I understand it is the hope of the Council that in videos, which are externally produced as was the case with this first video, ISL will continue to be employed.”
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