Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

In terms of the Robertson review, Justice Robertson was asked to provide an assurance that the activities of the quality and safeguard regulator were appropriate in the circumstances. His report came back to say that they were, and the government has accepted the response to the terms of reference that he was asked to look at.

In answer to the Second Deputy Speaker's question regarding the COVIDSafe app, the COVIDSafe app has now been used in anger across New South Wales over 540 times to find over 540 contacts that the traditional method of contact tracing would not be able to find.

Unfortunately, from 17 July to early August, Victorians were not using the COVIDSafe app at all, even though they had over 6,000 positive contacts. Now they are using it. It is embedded into their processes, but, at the time, they were, frankly, using pen and paper for contact tracing. They've now got Salesforce on board, in terms of a proper digital approach, and they've got the COVIDSafe app embedded in their systems, but, at the time of their highest spike in infections, they were not using it at all. That's uncomfortable for the Victorians opposite, who are great supporters of Premier Andrews, but they are the facts and they are not in dispute.

Proposed expenditure agreed to.

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