Rex Patrick (SA, Centre Alliance) Share this | Hansard source

Supplementary to that, downloading the app itself doesn't do anything. You have to turn it on and it has to work to achieve something. My question goes to that area. The COVID committee has heard evidence from the DTA and Department of Health that there are, currently, degradations in the application's performance, particularly in relation to when the application is running in the background, or if the phone is locked. That creates a situation where you could have 100 per cent of the people downloading the application, and if it doesn't work it doesn't help at all. I'm not suggesting that's the case.

Are you in a position of give some better guidance as to, overall, how you feel the application is working through the iterative process? Minister, this is not a criticism. I understand you took on this as something you could throw at the problem . From an engineering background, I know there are always issues with an application as it comes online. I'm trying to understand what the status of it is right now and how you will inform the public as iterations of the software and some of the fixes are made, so you're being open and honest with the people who have downloaded it or that it may encourage others to download it.