Alert SA Mobile App

Mr KNOLL (Schubert) (14:27): Supplementary. Minister, given that the app failed quite spectacularly on Sunday, and given that prior to Sunday there has been widespread dissatisfaction with the Alert SA update—

The SPEAKER: Can we come to a question?

Mr KNOLL: —will the minister now instruct his department to roll back the latest Alert SA update until all of the bugs that have obviously gone on with this update over the last couple of weeks have been sorted out?

The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety, Minister Assisting the Minister for Health, Minister Assisting the Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse) (14:28): There are a couple of assumptions in there that I am not quite sure are accurate. In terms of the information—

Mr Knoll: Did the app fail on Sunday or not?

The Hon. C.J. PICTON: The proposition that the member has put is that it was because of the latest update. I am not advised that it was necessarily because of that update compared to the previous version of the app, but I am happy to talk to our emergency chiefs about that.

Mr Knoll: You told us you didn't know why but now you say you don't think it's the update.

The Hon. C.J. PICTON: I'm happy to talk to the emergency chiefs about that. Certainly if their advice is that going back to a previous version would resolve those issues, then obviously we would look at that. However, I don't believe that is necessarily the case, and that the issues that happened on the weekend in terms of the data provision from different agencies into the app would have necessarily resolved the problem that happened on the weekend.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. C.J. PICTON: I don't think that that was necessarily the issue that happened on the weekend. Therefore, I don't think what the member is proposing would necessarily fix the issue. But I am happy to talk to our emergency chiefs about that and provide further information to him about it.

The SPEAKER: Before the next question, I call to order the members for Schubert, Stuart, Finniss and Morialta and the leader, and I warn the members for Morialta, Schubert and Finniss. Deputy leader.