How do you apply for criminal injuries compensation in Ireland?

Download the correct form, complete it, and send it in writing. To apply for criminal injuries compensation in Ireland, you send a completed application form to the Tribunal. According to gov.ie, your questions answered (updated 3 July 2026) [02], the application must be made in writing on the official form. There is no online application portal.

The same route appears on Citizens Information, last updated 11 April 2025 [05], with the form downloaded and returned to the Tribunal. An Irish application exists only on paper. The form is downloaded, completed and sent.

Are you the kind of applicant the Scheme is for?

Two routes in, and the second one surprises people. According to the European e-Justice Portal, updated 29 July 2024 [16], the first route is the obvious one. It covers a person who has sustained a personal injury directly attributable to a reported crime of violence.

The same source names a second limb. It covers an injury sustained through "action by them in assisting or attempting to assist the prevention of a reported crime or the saving of human life" ¹⁶.

Two limits run the other way. A traffic offence is a recognised ground on which an application falls outside the Scheme, and the Tribunal files decisions under that heading in its published index ¹⁵. And the Scheme's published guidance does not say whether a psychological injury with no physical injury qualifies, so this page does not answer that. Our guide to who can claim criminal injuries compensation works through the conditions in full.

The six steps, in the order gov.ie sets them out

Nothing in the sequence needs a solicitor, and none of it is complicated. It is a short list done in the right order, and the order matters because two of the steps have to happen before the form is any use.

The sequence gov.ie sets out runs as follows.

1. Check the date of the event and confirm you're inside three months.
2. Confirm the incident was reported to An Garda Síochána, or to Fiosrú where the alleged offender is a Garda.
3. Download the correct form from gov.ie: the application form for non-fatal cases or for fatal cases (gov.ie, updated 18 July 2025) [09].
4. Read the Explanatory Notes that gov.ie publishes with the form ⁰⁹.
5. Complete the form and gather what you have: medical evidence, receipts, proof of lost earnings, and a copy of your Garda statement where available.
6. Send the completed form to the Tribunal at the listed address and keep a dated copy.

Which form, the look-alikes, and where it goes

A point that matters more than it looks: both gov.ie forms carry a title, not a form number. A numbered form found through a search engine belongs to a different process. Form 34B, which searches often surface, is the Circuit Court's "Application for Compensation for Criminal Injury to the Person" under Order 52 of the Circuit Court Rules ²¹, which deals with malicious injuries. It is a court process against a rating authority, not a Tribunal form, and Form 34A is its preliminary-notice counterpart.

Two other bodies sit close enough to send people to the wrong place. Northern Ireland runs a separate 2009 Scheme with its own form and appeals panel, and an Australian state tribunal uses the CICT abbreviation too. The Injuries Resolution Board (IRB), which assesses most civil injury claims in the State, has no role here. Our guide to criminal injuries compensation sets out the Scheme as a whole.

Three contact points are listed on gov.ie at 27 July 2026 ¹². The postal address is Bishop's Square, Redmond's Hill, Dublin 2, D02 TD99. The email address is criminalinjuries@justice.ie and the telephone number is +353 1 479 0290.

What are the time limits for applying to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal?

Three months from the date of the event. That includes fatal injury. Late applications need exceptional circumstances and cannot exceed two years from the incident.

The deadline that governs your application

According to gov.ie, last updated 3 July 2026 ⁰², the rule has two halves. An application "must be made in writing as soon as possible after a crime of violence causing injury, including fatal injury". The second half is absolute: "in all cases not later than 3 months from the date of the event giving rise to the injury".

The three months run from the date of the event giving rise to the injury ⁰⁵. They don't run from diagnosis, from the date of a charge, or from the outcome of the criminal case.

A second deadline appears later, once a decision issues. We call this the two clocks. The first is three months from the date of the event in which to apply. The second is a further three months after a decision, set out in the Tribunal's own instruction, and the appeal section below gives the exact wording.

Check your date

One date decides which window you are in. The tool below applies the two published rules to it and does nothing else. It does not estimate what a claim is worth and it does not say whether an application will succeed.

Everything it can tell you is also written in plain text beside it, so nothing on this page sits behind a click. That matters for anyone on a poor connection, and for anyone who would rather read the rule than work a control.

If you are outside the three months

Beyond three months the Tribunal can only accept a late application in exceptional circumstances. That window runs for up to two years after the date of the incident. Unlike in Great Britain, where the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority scheme covering England, Scotland and Wales uses two years as the normal time limit, in Ireland the normal limit is three months.

The two figures being the same is the trap. In Britain two years is when you would ordinarily apply. Here it is the point past which nothing can be accepted at all, and everything between three months and two years is a discretion.

The High Court has looked at how that discretion is read, though in a narrower setting than it first appears. In Bowes v The Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal; Brophy v The Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal [2022] IEHC 703 (Holland J, 20 December 2022), the challenge was to the retrospective imposition of the two year outer bar introduced in 2021 on people who had been injured under the open-ended 1986 Scheme and had not yet applied. Holland J held that applying the new bar to them without any transitional period breached the EU law principle of effectiveness. In reading the 1986 Scheme's "exceptional treatment" discretion, he said it fell to be interpreted "in a broad, liberal and generous manner responsive to the ... circumstances of the victim of crime in each case", and that while "ignorance of the scheme will not automatically constitute exceptional circumstances, it cannot be excluded that it may do, depending on the circumstances" ²⁰.

Read it for what it decided, not for more. That guidance was given about a scheme with no outer limit at all. It does not tell you how generously the current two year bar will be read, and it is not a prediction of how the Tribunal will treat any particular late claim. Our guide to personal injury claim time limits sets out the two-year civil rule that this three-month deadline is constantly confused with.

If you were under 18 when it happened

The clock starts at 18, not at the event. One group of applicants starts later than everybody else, and it is the group most often told otherwise.

gov.ie states the rule directly, last updated 3 July 2026 ⁰². Where the applicant was a minor at the time of the event, the time limits commence from the moment they reach the age of majority. That is 18 years of age.

This is the position that matters most in historic childhood abuse cases, where the event and the application can be decades apart. It is also the rule most likely to be got wrong by somebody working from a general description of the three months.

It does not extend anything for an adult. Where the applicant was already 18 at the date of the event, the ordinary rule applies and the count starts that day.

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Where does the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme stand right now?

The Scheme was amended on 27 July 2026, and gov.ie is still catching up. According to the gov.ie Scheme campaign page, last updated 27 July 2026 ¹², "On 27 July 2026, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme was amended and published. This followed a decision by the government on 14 April 2026 to agree amendments to the Scheme." The same notice records four changes. The amended Scheme "removes the previous Scheme's exclusion of compensation for pain and suffering"; "states that the amount of compensation awarded by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal shall be within guidance as issued by the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration"; "provides arrangements for existing applications for compensation submitted prior to 27 July 2026 that have not been finalised"; and "provides transitionary arrangements for the acceptance of late applications to the Scheme per specified dates" ¹².

The amended text itself has not appeared yet. At the time of writing the gov.ie Terms and Conditions page ⁰¹ still carried the Scheme version effective from 31 January 2025, and the "your questions answered" page ⁰² was last updated on 3 July 2026, before the amendment. Everything set out on this page is therefore drawn from the Scheme as it stood immediately before 27 July 2026. That matters most for two things: what the Scheme pays for, and how it treats a late application. Check gov.ie for the amended text, and ring the Tribunal before relying on either point.

The Commission's recommendations are proposals about how the Scheme might be rebuilt [06]. None of them changes the deadline that applies to a claim today, and none of them is law.

What the reform means for your three months

On the caseload, the Law Society Gazette reported on 26 September 2025 ¹⁰ that the Tribunal took in 229 new general-scheme applications in 2024. It paid €10 million to 203 applicants, up from €7.5 million in 2023.

Those figures describe the Scheme as it paid in 2024, which was vouched financial loss rather than general damages. The Personal Injuries Guidelines, adopted by the Judicial Council in 2021 and applying to claims assessed on or after 24 April 2021, are what the courts apply when valuing a civil injury claim. They do not set Tribunal awards. Amounts vary from case to case, and no figure on this page predicts any individual outcome.

Waiting does not pause the clock. An applicant who holds off has nothing to gain from the delay itself, and the deadline keeps running. The amendment does include "transitionary arrangements for the acceptance of late applications to the Scheme per specified dates" ¹², and those arrangements have not been published. Anyone already outside the three months should ask the Tribunal what they now say.

Do you have to report the crime to An Garda Síochána?

Yes, and the report is a condition, not a formality. According to gov.ie, last updated 18 July 2025 ⁰⁹, the incident must have been reported to An Garda Síochána. Where a Garda is the alleged offender, the report goes to Fiosrú ⁰⁵. Reporting is what opens the door to the Scheme in Ireland, and no amount of medical evidence substitutes for it.

Co-operation runs alongside the report. The applicant must have co-operated and must continue to co-operate insofar as possible with the investigation. Co-operation is an ongoing duty, not a one-off report, which matters where an investigation is still live months after the claim goes in.

What "reported" means in practice

The wording says reported. The practice turns on paperwork. Reporting to the Gardaí in practice means a written statement of complaint exists, and the Tribunal will require a report about the incident from An Garda Síochána at some stage. A station with no statement on file has little to send.

What evidence do you need to send with your application?

Send the completed form, medical evidence, and proof of losses. Add the Garda station and the date you reported the crime. Send what you have. Do not hold the form back for a complete file.

Ruth Maxwell, a survivor of a 2016 knife attack in Dublin who has campaigned independently for reform of the Tribunal, quoted in the Law Society Gazette on 25 May 2026 [11], put it plainly. "Most victims and bereaved families don't come to this process with a clean set of documents and evidence ready to go". The three month deadline runs whether or not the file is tidy.

So keep the two obligations apart. We call this lodging now and vouching later. An incomplete claim lodged inside the three-month window is live, and a complete claim lodged outside it is not.

Before you send the form, check that none of the following is missing.

• The date of the event, written as a date rather than a description
• The Garda station where you reported the incident, and the date of that report
• Any medical evidence of the injury, however brief
• Numbers for the losses claimed, with proof of expenses and receipts to follow, and any medical evidence you already hold
• Your signature and the sections of the form you can't answer later

What can you send today?

Tick what you already hold. The tool below sorts your own answers into two lists and repeats one published rule. It makes no judgement about your claim, it does not score anything, and it does not predict an outcome.

Two of the six items cannot wait. The form is what starts the application, and the date of the event is what the three months run from. A form without a date is not a lodged claim.

What documents does the Tribunal ask for?

Medical evidence, receipts, earnings proof, and other payments. The Tribunal asks for each of those, alongside a copy of your own statement to An Garda Síochána where available. Send receipts for expenses when the Tribunal secretariat advises you to. That is the practical shape of lodging now and vouching later.

Two items on the table below are where applications most often stall. Proof of lost earnings has to come from outside your own account of it, which in practice means an employer letter, payslips or Revenue records. A figure written on the form and nowhere else does not survive assessment.

Details of payments from other sources matter for a different reason. According to Citizens Information, last updated 11 April 2025 ⁰⁵, the Tribunal takes several other payments into account. They are social welfare payments, agriculture payments, salary or wages received while on sick leave, and any compensation paid by or on behalf of the offender. Declaring those yourself is faster than having them queried later.

Do you need to get the Garda report yourself?

No. The Tribunal requests it directly. According to gov.ie, last updated 3 July 2026 ⁰², the Tribunal will require a report about the incident from An Garda Síochána. What you should include is a copy of your statement to An Garda Síochána, where you have one. Where a member of An Garda Síochána is the alleged offender, that statement goes to Fiosrú instead.

The distinction slips past people because the two documents share a name. The Garda report is the account the Gardaí give the Tribunal about the incident.

Your statement is the account you gave the Gardaí at the time. The Tribunal requests one. The other is yours to send, and its absence is the gap worth closing before the form goes in.

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How much does the Scheme pay, and what has to be evidenced?

€500 at the bottom, nothing fixed at the top, and every euro in between has to be vouched. According to the European e-Justice Portal, updated 29 July 2024 [16], "the current minimum level of award is €500. There is currently no maximum level of award".

The absence of a general ceiling is the part most guidance leaves out. What limits an award in Ireland is usually not a cap. It is what the applicant can produce a document for.

One cap does exist, and it applies in fatal cases. According to Citizens Information, last updated 11 April 2025 ⁰⁵, "In fatal cases, the Scheme also provides that an award (the maximum amount of which cannot currently exceed €35,000) may be made under the Civil Liability Act, 1961 in respect of mental distress experienced by dependents". That is the one head of general damages the pre-amendment Scheme did pay, and it is capped.

The same source sets out what a non-fatal claim can cover, and one word runs through the whole list ¹⁶.

What the numbers look like at Scheme level

One figure gives a sense of scale without pretending to predict anything. The Law Society Gazette reported that the Tribunal paid €10 million to 203 applicants in 2024 ¹⁰. Divide one by the other and 2024 works out at roughly €49,000 an applicant.

That is our arithmetic on two published totals, not a Tribunal statistic. The Scheme publishes no such figure, awards range from a few hundred euro to sums many times that number, and it is not a guide to any individual application.

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What happens after you apply for criminal injuries compensation?

The file is read, not heard. At first instance the Tribunal decides on paper. It works from the documents it receives.

The Tribunal gathers a Garda report, asks for anything further it needs, and issues a written decision. No first instance hearing takes place.

Who decides your application?

An officer, one member, or three, by amount claimed. According to the Law Reform Commission's Consultation Paper CP 67-2022 [07], who decides depends on the sum claimed.

Under €3,000, a duly authorised officer of the Tribunal may decide it. Above that, one Tribunal member usually decides. Over €75,000, three members decide.

The Commission's wording is permissive rather than mandatory. A decision under €3,000 "may be made by a duly authorised officer", and awards above that are "generally" decided by one member ⁰⁷. Neither is a rule the applicant can rely on to predict who will read a particular file.

A floor sits underneath all three tiers. According to Citizens Information, last updated 11 April 2025 ⁰⁵, the Scheme pays no compensation if the loss you suffer is less than €500. The amount claimed does two things at once in Ireland. It decides whether anything is payable at all, and it decides who reads the file.

What the Tribunal secretariat will and will not do

They will answer your questions about the process. They will not make the claim for you. Those two things get collapsed into one discouraging sentence in most descriptions of the Scheme, and they are not the same.

The gov.ie Victims Charter, last updated 29 April 2025 [17], sets out what the Tribunal's staff commit to. They will give you information to help you complete the application, and deal with you in a polite and professional way.

The Charter also commits them to sending written decisions, arranging prompt payment of an award, and telling applicants about their right of appeal ¹⁷.

How long does it take, and when are you paid?

The Tribunal publishes no service standard, so no date can be promised. According to gov.ie, last updated 3 July 2026 ⁰², the time taken to finalise claims varies considerably with the nature of the case. No service standard exists for how long the Tribunal takes in Ireland. The recorded range runs from months to several years in litigated cases.

Reported cases mark the far end of that range rather than the middle. The Law Reform Commission's Consultation Paper CP 67-2022 ⁰⁷ records the outcome in Byrne v Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal [2017] IEHC 28 (White J, 27 January 2017). The High Court held that a thirteen year delay between application and final award breached the applicant's right to constitutional justice.

That case reached the High Court because of the delay, which is why the duration is on record at all. It says nothing about how long any other claim will take. What it does establish is that delay is justiciable, so an applicant left waiting is not simply without a remedy.

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If you disagree with the decision, how does the appeal work?

Three members hear the case again, in private. According to gov.ie, last updated 3 July 2026 ⁰², an applicant can appeal the first decision to an appeal hearing of 3 members. Hearings will be in private. All information before the Tribunal will be available to the applicant.

An appeal in Ireland is a fresh hearing rather than a review of the reasoning in the first decision. The Law Reform Commission's Consultation Paper CP 67-2022 ⁰⁷ records the same character. The paper stage becomes an oral stage, which is the first point in the process at which anyone hears the applicant speak. The Law Society Gazette reported on 26 September 2025 [10] that there were 84 appeal hearings in 2024 and more than 90% of them ran remotely.

Appeal hearings are held in private and in an informal manner, so legal representation is not required, according to Citizens Information, last updated 11 April 2025 ⁰⁵. That is the Tribunal describing its own procedure. It is not advice on whether to instruct a solicitor.

Will the Scheme pay your legal costs?

No, and no other State route covers them either. According to gov.ie, last updated 3 July 2026 ⁰², the Scheme makes no provision for awarding legal costs. As a result, the Tribunal has never awarded legal costs to an applicant.

The civil legal aid system doesn't cover applications to the Scheme. The Law Reform Commission puts it directly at paragraph 1.18 of Consultation Paper 67-2022: "Applicants may engage legal representation if they wish, however it will be at their own expense. Compensation awards do not reimburse legal fees nor are applications to the Scheme covered under the civil legal aid system" ⁰⁷. Under the terms of the Scheme, proceedings before the Tribunal are informal. gov.ie publishes both application forms and the Explanatory Notes free of charge.

What follows from that is practical rather than technical. The onus is on an applicant to make the claim, and the secretariat answers queries about the process rather than making the claim ⁰². A solicitor is not required, cannot be paid for out of the award ⁰², and cannot be funded through civil legal aid ⁰⁷. Anyone hiring one for a Tribunal claim in Ireland is funding it themselves.

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What the Tribunal's own decisions say about applications

The Tribunal publishes its decisions, and it files each one under the paragraph of the Scheme that decided it. That index sits on gov.ie, last updated 8 September 2025 [15]. It is the only public record of how applications are actually decided, and neither the Scheme's own guidance nor Citizens Information summarises what it shows.

One category dwarfs every other. Paragraph 10, need to provide all reasonable assistance, carries more than four hundred published decisions from 2021 to 2024 ¹⁵. Every other paragraph in the index put together comes to fewer than two hundred.

The next categories are a long way behind, and each is still a live way an application ends. Paragraph 13 covers the victim's conduct, character or way of life. Paragraph 9 covers the minimum award. Paragraph 1 covers whether the injury was due to a crime of violence at all.

Reading that ranking backwards is the useful exercise. It says the Scheme is not mainly refusing people because their case falls outside it. It is mainly deciding cases on what the applicant did, or did not, put in front of it.

The €500 floor is a decided question, not a footnote

Minimum award has its own paragraph and its own line of published decisions ¹⁵. The Scheme pays no compensation where the loss you suffer is less than €500, according to Citizens Information, last updated 11 April 2025 ⁰⁵.

Most guidance mentions that figure once and moves on. The published record treats it as a live ground of refusal, which changes where the work goes.

The practical consequence sits before the form rather than after it. Add the vouched losses up first: expenses actually paid, earnings actually lost, and anything else you hold a document for. A claim that cannot reach €500 on paper has a published category of refusals waiting for it.

Three things that decide how an application goes

Reading the Tribunal's index alongside the day-to-day of putting these applications together, the same three things come up far more than anything else. None of them is about how badly someone was hurt, which is never the argument.

1. Whether the file answers the Tribunal before it asks. Paragraph 10 is the largest published category by a distance ¹⁵. An application that arrives with the Garda station, the date of the report and the medical evidence already in it is a different document from one that arrives as a form and a promise.
2. Whether the losses are vouched rather than stated. Every element the Scheme pays carries the word "vouched" ¹⁶. A receipt kept in week one is worth more than an explanation in month nine, and reconstructing a spend after the fact rarely works.
3. Whether the date was respected, or the delay explained. Three months is short and it runs while everything else in a person's life is still on fire. Where it has gone, what is left is a dated, honest account of why.

Older material cites the wrong paragraph numbers

The Scheme's paragraphs were renumbered on 20 April 2021. The Tribunal's index records the old number against each category, which is how the change is visible at all [15].

Anything written before April 2021 cites the old numbers, and a good deal of published material has never been updated. Someone looking up paragraph 14 for the conduct rule will find the social welfare rule instead.

This matters when you read a decision rather than a summary. Tribunal decisions cite the paragraph in force when they were made, so a 2015 decision and a 2024 decision can apply the same rule under two different numbers. The index is the only place that maps one to the other.

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What if your case is not a standard one?

Several situations sit outside the ordinary path. Fatal cases, childhood abuse, assaults at work, and injuries to Gardaí or prison officers follow other rules or separate schemes in Ireland.

Fatal cases keep the same deadline. There's no separate time limit for fatal cases. The same three-month limit applies to fatal injury as it does to non-fatal injury.

Published material isn't always accurate on that point. Our guide to fatal injury claims in Ireland covers the civil route in the meantime.

If the crime happened outside Ireland

The Tribunal can only compensate an injury suffered in the State. That is the position recorded on the European e-Justice Portal, updated 29 July 2024 [16]. The Tribunal may only make an award for an injury experienced as a result of a crime sustained in the State, or aboard an Irish ship or aircraft.

That settles a question the Scheme's own guidance leaves implicit. Living in Ireland is not what brings a crime inside the Scheme. Where the crime happened is.

There is a route for the other case. Under Directive 2004/80/EC an applicant injured by a crime in another EU Member State may apply under the scheme of the Member State in which the crime occurred ¹⁶. Ireland's three month deadline has nothing to do with that application, and the other State's own time limit governs it.

Ireland, Britain and Northern Ireland are three separate applications

Three schemes, three forms, three deadlines, and no transfer between them. An application to one is not an application to the others, and nothing is forwarded on. The number that causes most of the confusion is two years, which means opposite things on either side of the Irish Sea.

The row that matters most is the third one. An Irish applicant who reads a British page and takes two years as the deadline has misread a discretion as an entitlement. By the time that mistake shows up, the three months are usually gone.

Search results do not separate the three schemes reliably, and the forms look similar enough to be mistaken for each other. Check which body the page you are reading is describing before you take a deadline from it.

Where to get support, whether or not you apply

Compensation is rarely the most urgent thing. A national service exists for people in this position, and using it has no bearing on an application and requires no application to have been made.

The three months keep running either way, which is the one reason to deal with the form early rather than last. Sending it does not commit you to anything further.

How we can help

Reading the file before you send it is the useful part. We do that reading at Gary Matthews Solicitors, personal injury solicitors in Dublin, across Ireland. A Tribunal application does not need a solicitor.

Hiring one changes neither the deadline, nor the forms, nor the way the Tribunal reads a file. What it can do is check the dates, compare what you hold against what the Scheme asks for. It can also show you where the gaps sit.

Frequently asked questions about applying to the Tribunal

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What to consider next

Applying is one decision, and it sits beside others. Another page in this guide answers each question below in full.

How this sits beside a civil claim and other payments

If your situation is different from the standard one

Ireland is not Britain and it is not Northern Ireland

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General information about the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme in Ireland, current at the review date above. Reading it does not create a solicitor and client relationship, and it is not advice on the facts of your own case.

Important: this information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Every case is different and outcomes vary. Consult a qualified solicitor for advice specific to your situation. Gary Matthews Solicitors is regulated by the Law Society of Ireland.

References

1. Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, Terms and conditions of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme, gov.ie. Version effective 31 January 2025.
2. Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme: your questions answered, gov.ie. Last updated 3 July 2026.
3. Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal, Instruction 4: Report costs incurred at the request or direction of Tribunal, gov.ie. Made under paragraph 19 of the Scheme, signed 1 July 2021.
4. Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal, Instruction 5: Closure of applications, gov.ie. Made under paragraph 19 of the Scheme, signed 28 September 2022.
5. Citizens Information Board, Compensation for victims of crime, citizensinformation.ie. Last updated 11 April 2025.
6. Law Reform Commission, Report on Compensating Victims of Crime. Published March 2026.
7. Law Reform Commission, Consultation Paper on Compensating Victims of Crime, LRC CP 67-2022.
8. Court of Justice of the European Union, LD v Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal and Others, Case C-284/24. Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 2 October 2025, EUR-Lex.
9. Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme, gov.ie. Service page carrying the application form for non-fatal cases, the application form for fatal cases and the Explanatory Notes. Last updated 18 July 2025.
10. Law Society of Ireland, €10 million paid out to crime victims last year, Law Society Gazette. Published 26 September 2025. Reports the Tribunal's 2024 figures.
11. Law Society of Ireland, Crime doesn't pay, Law Society Gazette, by Sorcha Corcoran. Published 25 May 2026. Carries the Ruth Maxwell quotation.
12. Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme, campaign page, gov.ie. Carries the notice that "On 27 July 2026, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme was amended and published", following the Government decision of 14 April 2026. Last updated 27 July 2026.
13. Government of the United Kingdom, Claim compensation if you were the victim of a violent crime, gov.uk. Cited only to distinguish the separate scheme operating in Great Britain, which does not apply in Ireland. Checked 27 July 2026.
14. Northern Ireland Executive, Criminal injuries compensation scheme 2009 application form, nidirect.gov.uk. Cited only to distinguish the separate Northern Ireland scheme, which does not apply in the Republic of Ireland. Checked 27 July 2026.
15. Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, Decisions by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal, gov.ie. The Tribunal's index of published decisions, filed under the paragraph of the Scheme each turned on. Last updated 8 September 2025.
16. European Commission, European e-Justice Portal: if my claim is to be considered in this country, Ireland. Updated 29 July 2024.
17. Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, Victims Charter: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal, gov.ie. Sets out the Tribunal secretariat's service commitments to applicants. Last updated 29 April 2025.
18. Citizens Information Board, Support services for victims of crime, citizensinformation.ie. Last updated 1 September 2025.
19. Citizens Information Board, Fiosrú, the Office of the Police Ombudsman, citizensinformation.ie. Records that Fiosrú replaced the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission on 2 April 2025 under the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024 (No. 1 of 2024). Edited 12 May 2026.
20. Bowes v The Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal; Brophy v The Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal [2022] IEHC 703. Judgment of Mr Justice Holland, 20 December 2022. Discussed in Liam O'Driscoll, "Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme", Law Society Gazette, 6 April 2023.
21. Courts Service of Ireland, Circuit Court Rules, Order 52 (Malicious injuries), courts.ie. Rule 2(1) requires applications to be made in accordance with Form 34B; Form 34A is the preliminary notice. Order 52 gives effect to the Malicious Injuries Act 1981 and s.106 of the Grand Jury (Ireland) Act 1836 as amended.