The activities of CRH should be included in the Moriarty tribunal, the Dáil was told. Mr Eamon Ryan (Green, Dublin South) said a central weakness of the Ansbacher report "is that it fails to call a spade a spade, particularly regarding the activities of Cement Roadstone Holdings". AIB "also has questions to answer", he said.

Mr Joe Higgins (Soc, Dublin West) said that the human subspecies "Ansbacher man" was extinct, "but his DNA lives on. His genetic fingerprint can be found at the heart of major business conglomerates in this State." Mr Higgins said the establishment wanted to say "that was then, this is now" and the Tánaiste "hinted at this in her speech". The establishment "is trying to make us believe that Ansbacher man was an aberration, a branch of evolution that suddenly ended and has disappeared without trace, but that is not the case."

"Where we go from here," said Mr Ryan, was the important issue that had to be decided during the debate. The Tánaiste, Ms Harney, said that was a matter for the director of corporate enforcement.