The Injuries Resolution Board application form: the fee, the documents and the portal

The Injuries Resolution Board's application is the first fixed point in a personal injury claim in Ireland. The date you make it is the date the two-year clock pauses, and nearly everything that follows runs from it. This guide goes through what the Board asks for, item by item, using the Board's own pages.

One thing to say first. This site is independent of the Board. The form belongs to the Board, lives on the Board's site, and is linked here, never copied. The Board's own making a claim page is where the application is made, and its forms and guidance page has every form it uses.

The three things the Board cannot start without

The Board's page lists them plainly.

Without the medical report, the Board cannot begin an assessment. Without the fee, the application is not made. Everything else, including receipts and records of expenses, can follow.

The fee: €45 or €90

The fee is €45 for an application made online and €90 for one made by post. The Board's FAQ says the fee, and the reasonable cost of the doctor's report, can be recovered as part of the award. That means the fee is not lost if the claim is assessed and accepted; the Notice of Assessment includes it.

Mediation carries no extra fee. The respondent pays a separate and larger charge, €1,200 under S.I. No. 557/2025 from 1 December 2025, if they consent to the Board's process; that charge is theirs, not yours, and our guide on the respondent's 90 days explains it.

The medical report: Form B

Form B is the Board's Medical Assessment Form. Your treating doctor or GP completes it, describing the injury, the treatment and the prognosis. It is the document the assessment is built on, so it has its own guide: the medical report on Form B. The short version is that the doctor records what they found and what they expect, in their own words, and the Board may arrange its own examination later.

Proof of identity

The Board asks for your PPS number, or a copy of your driving licence, passport or national ID card. The PPS number also lets the Department of Social Protection tell the Board about any welfare paid because of the injury, which the respondent must repay under the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013; the Notice of Assessment lists those recoverable benefits.

The respondent's details

The application names each person or business you say is responsible for the injury: the respondent. The Board serves a Formal Notice on each respondent under section 13, so it needs a name and an address that will reach them. Where you know the respondent's insurer, the form asks for that too; the Board's respondent FAQ says the insurer usually deals with the Board on the respondent's behalf.

Naming matters for the clock. Section 50 of the 2003 Act pauses the two-year limit from the date of your application until 6 months after an Authorisation issues, but only for the respondents named in it. A respondent added later gets its own pause from the date they were added. The guide on how an application pauses the clock works through the dates.

For a road traffic accident, the respondent is usually the other driver; for a fall in a shop, the occupier; for an accident at work, the employer. If the driver was uninsured or cannot be traced, the Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland is involved and the Board's process still applies; the MIBI guide covers that route.

Section 7: mediation

Section 7 of the form is where you say whether you are willing to try mediation. Ticking the box costs nothing and commits you to nothing: the Board's mediation page says a party can leave mediation at any stage with no consequence for the claim. Mediation only happens if the respondent agrees too. In 2025, 54% of the Board's mediations reached agreement, in about 3 months on average, according to the Board's Annual Report release; the figures are dated on the figures register. The mediation guide explains the calls, the agreement and the 10-day cooling-off.

The statements you sign

Since 2019 the application must be signed by you and carry the confirmations the Act lists in section 11(3A). Those confirmations are what make the application count for the section 50 pause. The form sets them out; read them before you sign, because an application without them does not stop the clock.

What can follow later

The Board's FAQ is clear that records of out-of-pocket expenses can be sent after the application is made. That covers:

• Receipts for medical visits, prescriptions, physiotherapy and travel to appointments.
• Evidence of loss of earnings, such as payslips and a letter from your employer.
• Records of care or help you have had to pay for.

These are the special damages. The special damages worksheet is a printable list of what can be vouched, with the welfare deductions to expect, and the guide on loss of earnings, expenses and care explains each heading.

The portal, the login, and why the address says piab

People search for "injuries resolution board login", "piab portal" and "injuries board form a" and find a mix of pages. The explanation is simple. The Board was the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB, from 2003 until the 2022 Act gave it the trading name Injuries Resolution Board in 2023. Its online claims portal and its form addresses were set up under the old name and still use it. The portal is the Board's, reached from its making a claim page, and the login is the account you create there. Form A is the application form's name from the early years; the Board now calls it the application form. Our guide on one body, three names tells the story, and the Board page is this site's own page on the Board.

There is no other portal. Any site that asks you to fill in a claim form that is not the Board's own is not the Board.

Claims the form does not take

Two kinds of claim go to the Board but not through the online form:

• Claims involving a fatality. The Board's fatality page asks for a phone call first. The guide on fatal accidents and dependants' claims covers that route.
• Garda compensation claims under the Garda Síochána (Compensation) Act 2022, which go to the Garda Commissioner within 6 months and then to the Board.

And one kind of claim does not go to the Board at all: medical negligence. It has the same two-year clock and goes to a solicitor and the courts. The guide on medical negligence, not the Board explains why.

Do you need a solicitor to apply?

The Board says in terms that you do not need one to make a claim, and that its customer service team can help with the form. You may use one if you choose, and many people do. A solicitor's fee for a personal injury claim cannot be a percentage of the damages under section 149 of the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015. The guide on claiming without a solicitor sets out what the Board's answer covers and where it stops, such as a rejected assessment, a High Court figure, a child's claim or a fatal claim.

What happens after you apply

Once the Board has the fee, the medical report and your identity, the application is complete. The Board serves a Formal Notice on each respondent with a copy of the medical report. The respondent has 90 days to consent to assessment, mediation, both, or neither; silence counts as consent to assessment. Then the 9 months to assess begin. The lead guide on how the Board works follows the whole sequence to the Order to Pay.

Where this leaves you

The date on your application is the date the periods start and the clock pauses, so keep it. The Board timeline planner takes that date and shows the Formal Notice, the 90 days, the 9 months and the 28 days as dates on a calendar, with the clock pause alongside.