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Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Assembly Commission – in the Senedd at 2:16 pm on 3 May 2017.

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Photo of Elin Jones Elin Jones Plaid Cymru 2:16, 3 May 2017

Thank you for your supplementary and for the excellent timing of your question to the Commission. For clarity, Senedd.tv continues as one of the platforms that we have available to us, but YouTube is now being started as of this week, as are Facebook Live opportunities as well. Various committees, especially, have taken up the opportunity to use Facebook Live, and we will be developing that further.

The Commission has set up, as you know, the digital taskforce to provide us with expert recommendations on how we take forward the need to address the lack of coverage by traditional media of what we do in this place, and how we can use new media and new technology to take the work that we do here on behalf of the people of Wales directly to the people of Wales—to their homes and to their phones at the same time. You raise the very important point that some of us—some of you—are very able to use social media very well, and your staff are; but, others haven’t quite kept up to speed with everything that is going on. It’s an issue that I will take back to the Commission as to how we ensure that Members in this place and support staff are trained to enable us to avail ourselves of all the opportunities available to us now from social and new media.