A Donegal borrower has had 70% of their debt written off in a landmark insolvency case.
The landmark deal involved a HSE worker who had a partnership in a business that eventually failed.
Lobby group New Beginning struck the deal at a creditors’ meeting earlier this afternoon.
The individual could not pay his debts after his business failed, and it is understood three of Ireland’s main banks were among six creditors involved.
The individual’s personal insolvency practitioner was Ronan Duffy of Derry-based McCambridge Duffy.
A protective notice had been issued in court in Monaghan on October 21.
Ross Maguire from New Beginning said “It’s a landmark case because it’s the first of its type. The personal insolvency legislation came into force in September, and the first protective notice was issued on the 21st of October, and then the deal took a little under six weeks.”
“We have hundreds more cases ready to go, and hundreds more backed up behind that again.”