Lorcan O’Connor

First challenges will be to tackle pension shortfall and manage State company’s properties

Minister reviewing rules to avoid mass repossessions in light of likely sale of 14,000 home loans to vulture fund

Permanent TSB could have avoided sales of bad loans by using State’s insolvency fixes

Personal debt arrangements fall sharply as objections stall insolvency deals in the courts

Process grinding to halt as banks contest legal and technical points

Applications for solutions rose 71 per cent to 1,259 in second quarter, figures show

Bad loans endgame looms as new sheriff in town lays down law to Irish banks

Most in mortgage arrears using service stay in homes after deal with lenders - ISI director

High Court judgment sets precedent to help resolve personal insolvency for the separated

State-funded Abhaile scheme pays €550,000 to personal insolvency practitioners

Almost 900 applications made to Insolvency Service of Ireland in third quarter of this year

First group set to restart lives without the onerous ‘burden of unsustainable debt’

Quarter of owner-occupier accounts ‘fixed’ by arrears capitalisation ‘redefaulted’

New measures which allow decisions on family homes to be reviewed cited as driving growth

Legislation will reduce the bankruptcy term from three years to one year

Borrowers allowed apply to courts if lenders decline personal insolvency arrangement

Just 300 arrangements were agreed druing period as David Hall says reduction is ‘hugely concerning’ with many postponing bankruptcy

Minister for Justice expected to read submissions from people with mortgage difficulties

Each personal-insolvency rejection costs banks €100,000, says insolvency service

‘The idea that people would play the system to skip debt has no foundation’

Banks and PIPs using insolvency process will only use agreed documentation and standard terms and conditions

Total cost of applying for bankruptcy is now approximately €270

At the outset, we need to ask if we are getting value from the Insolvency Service of Ireland

Uptake of the Insolvency Service of Ireland has been much lower than expected, and it is now reinventing itself with the dropping of fees and an information campaign. What went wrong?

Many with debt scrimping on food, says insolvency service

Insolvency service suspends application fees until end of 2015

Under-18s take part in first All-Ireland joust between rival green and golds ahead of senior decider

Analysis: At this rate, it will take the service a century to assist all of its potential clients

Only 27 mortgage deals done in three months

Average write-down on secured debt is 17 per cent, agency says

Every loan concession means someone else has to pay - Boucher

Insolvency Service singles out Bank of Ireland for criticism

Oireachtas Finance Committee updated on ISI performance

Bankruptcy term was reduced from 12 to 3 years in December

Finance Committee hears concern over inconsistencies in handling of distressed mortgages

Insolvency Service says legislation ‘good news’ for those struggling with personal debt

37 personal insolvency practitioners available to help people restructure their debts

Bad debts are a collective woe that riddles our fragile commerce but we can now tackle such debts head on

Business Opinion: lack of transparency and banks’ ability to stall debt arrangements may cast shadow over new insolvency regime