Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Dargan Fitzgerald:

Because we ... and I think you ... I think your previous question actually referred to this. We took into account the macroeconomic factors, the stress in the system generally, the potential decline in collateral values and our clear desire was to carry out an increased scope of audit testing. And this materiality amount is linked to another amount we call a testing threshold and that means that the sample sizes is in simple terms would have been considerably bigger in the 2008 year.

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