Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

I can come in there if that is okay with the Deputy and Ms Canavan. The Covid tracker app was always more than an exposure notification app and always had multiple purposes, as Mr. Lowry set out. It is technology deployed as a pandemic response tool and it already carries the function of exposure notification, as the committee knows. There is also the check-in function, and it is an information platform. What we are doing here is adding a digital wallet that allows people to carry the EU digital Covid certificate electronically. Its architecture is decentralised and it has been built on the basis of privacy by design. I, as well as the HSE, am in receipt of the correspondence from the ICCL and Digital Rights Ireland. We will be responding to them and have engaged with them over the last while. An important thing is that as a pandemic response tool, all this infrastructure will be dismantled at the end of the pandemic.