I remind the House, including leaders, Members and Ministers, that this is questions on promised legislation and that questions on constituency issues are not to be asked unless they are relevant to promised legislation. There is a long list of prospective speakers and I am trying to accommodate as many of them as possible.

I have looked at my contribution in the House on 1 May 2018. In keeping with the Taoiseach's approach from time to time, he quoted very selectively from that contribution and suggested that I attacked people and so on. I raised very legitimate questions at the time, specifically about the issue of non-disclosure. I did not cast any aspersions on the CervicalCheck screening programme. I raised questions as to who in the Department of Health knew and, indeed, the lack of communications with the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, by his departmental officials. I made the point that the communications and frenzied reaction from the State and its agencies had caused much distress to women across the country. I raised questions about non-disclosure. I am today entitled to seek that the record of the House be corrected.

In my view, officials of the Department of Health were advised by the clinical director via officials in the screening service that the decision to offer free smear tests should not proceed because it would fundamentally undermine the programme. That is a serious issue. Rather than trying to divert from that core point, questions asked in the House should be answered comprehensively. I ask the Taoiseach to ask the Minister to come to the House and correct the record in respect of that matter.

In that context, when does the Taoiseach expect the new HPV test to be rolled out and introduced? Its accuracy and precision is superior to the existing form of screening.

Once again, the Deputy is being a little bit disingenuous. I did not say that he criticised the programme; I said that he criticised senior people working in CervicalCheck. He stated that they were cold and calculating and suggested they may have been involved in illegality. He went on to subsequently suggest that they may have been involved in a conspiracy. I am not saying that he said that about the programme; I am saying that he said it about senior people in CervicalCheck. If the Deputy wishes to clarify that, perhaps he will tell the House exactly to whom he was referring-----

It is on the record of the House.

-----when he made those comments in order that everyone can know. I am unsure what specific aspect of the record the Deputy wishes to have corrected. Certainly, if it needs to be corrected, the Minister will do that. I am not quite clear exactly what the Deputy is saying needs to be corrected.

The Taoiseach is very clear in that regard.

On the Deputy's final point regarding the HPV test, I cannot give a date for its roll-out. The policy decision has been made by Government to introduce the test and the money has been allocated, but that now needs to be operationalised by the HSE. Having missed the deadlines that were previously committed to-----

Because of the Government decision.

-----I cannot, hand on heart, state in full confidence on what date that will be done.