A financial fund is objecting to a proposed personal insolvency arrangement under which a businessman will write off over €70m in debts.

The lives of a number of people have been severely affected by an ex-Garda Special Branch member who caused death and serious injury to others while drink driving, an inquest has heard.

A retired member of the Garda Special Branch has been jailed for five years and disqualified from driving for 15 years for drunk driving causing death and serious injury.