Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed)

Photo of Louise O'ReillyLouise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will conclude on this. We know that up to 600,000 people have deleted the COVID Tracker app from their phones. Are there any confidence-building measures in play that will encourage people to download the app again? I am sure the Minister is concerned about this figure. I would be very surprised if he were not. It is in the newspaper today. Up to 600,000 people have deleted the app from their phones, so it is going backwards instead of forwards and the figure of 1.7 million I have heard is obviously no longer correct. Does the Department have plans to put measures in place to ensure that people will have their confidence restored in the app and that the uptake will start going in the right direction, as opposed to backwards, which is where it is going now?

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