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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