Covid-19 Pandemic

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Questions (1014)

Emer Higgins

Question:

1014. Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 738 of 21 July 2020, the details on the number of users who have chosen to register their location in these areas when signing up for the application, in view of the fact the application requests users to provide their location when they register and that the locations in the question are included in the drop-down list from which users select; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18678/20]

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Minister for Health

At an aggregate level from data up to 21 July 2020, there were 5,123,982 check-ins and 4,861,208 or 95%, have a location reference. To maintain privacy, it is not currently possible to release these figures at a lower level for the localities listed by the Deputy, as lower level data will have to undergo statistical disclosure control (SDC) protocols by the CSO before release. The CSO have advised my Department that these SDC protocols are currently in the build phase. The CSO will be reporting symptom check-in data at county level in the first instance on Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub, and this data will then be made openly available on a public facing dashboard.