Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 September 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission

Photo of Marc Ó CathasaighMarc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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This is something I have raised with the Minister for Health and I would certainly like to see it investigated.

I ask the witnesses to comment on the success or otherwise of the Covid-19 tracing app. We have had huge public buy-in, with well over 1 million people having downloaded the app onto their phones. I ask the experts, particularly Dr. Ryan and Dr. McConkey, to comment on how useful it has been in speeding up the tracing process. Is it working well or is there something we need to work on with it?