Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland
2:00 pm
Mr. Richie Boucher:
The provision to write back a recovery in the accounts was €280 million. That reflected the changes in our financial models and, in particular, reflected a change in house price assumptions. Up to June 2014, we had been making a conservative assumption that the peak to trough fall in house prices was 55%. Then as we considered our provision, we said there was probably another 10% on top of that for cost of disposal and cost of sale etc. As the market improved, from an accountant point of view an ability to continue to maintain a 55% assumption was no longer correct and that was reflected in €280 million of a provision recovery.
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