Registration for summer day camps via the online Camp Connect platform opened on Monday, the Department of Sport and Recreation announced.

The launch was delayed from April 27 to fine-tune the system.

The department said some users had initially run into “intermittent issues with the system” but that the platform was fully operational as of today.

Owen Darrell, the Minister of Tourism, Transport, Culture and Sport, said recently in response to queries about online problems last year: “We are using some additional resources when it comes to technology including internal resources with the digital transformation team that has been doing good work.”

Registration remains open until May 15, with the lottery introduced for fairness and efficiency set to take place on May 25.

Diallo Rabain, the Minister of the Cabinet Office and Digital Innovation, apologised for the delay and inconvenience caused by the earlier technical problems with the site.

He said initial investigations suggested the disruption might have been linked to a “cloud-based service outage overseas, which has affected how traffic is being managed across regions”.