Notes |
2024 |
2023 |
|
Employee costs |
(158,673) |
(114,907) |
|
Local authority agreement costs |
(137,671) |
(223,042) |
|
Hired and contracted services |
(335,992) |
(324,386) |
|
Materials and operating costs |
(111,177) |
(103,559) |
|
Utilities |
(135,990) |
(84,737) |
|
Rates, regulatory levies, insurance and establishment costs |
(78,524) |
(69,354) |
|
IT operational costs and telecommunications |
(56,856) |
(42,620) |
|
Asset derecognition |
(27) |
(3,435) |
|
Other operating costs |
(22,021) |
(17,584) |
|
Operating costs (before impairment of trade receivables) |
(1,036,931) |
(983,624) |
|
Impairment of trade receivables |
(19,525) |
(16,449) |
|
Total |
(1,056,456) |
(1,000,073) |
Comparative amounts for operating costs have been adjusted following reassessment of our ongoing transformation of operations so that presentation is directly comparable with the amounts shown in respect of the current year.
Operating costs are stated after charging:
(a) Commercial Statutory Auditor
2024 |
2023 |
||
Audit of entity financial statements |
(290) |
(267) |
|
Other assurance services |
(17) |
(6) |
|
Tax advisory services |
- |
- |
|
Other non-audit services |
(24) |
(8) |
|
Total |
(i) |
(331) |
(281) |
(i) Amounts exclude irrecoverable VAT
(b) Comptroller & Auditor General
2024 |
2023 |
|
Audit of entity financial statements |
(60) |
(38) |
Total |
(60) |
(38) |
(c) Directors’ remuneration
2024 |
2023 |
|
Non-executive directors - emoluments |
(139) |
(142) |
Executive directors - emoluments |
(248) |
(249) |
Executive directors - defined benefit pension contributions |
- |
- |
Executive directors - defined contribution pension contributions |
(27) |
(27) |
Total |
(414) |
(418) |
The Company’s CEO is the only executive member of the Uisce Éireann Board. The number of directors to whom defined benefit pension contributions accrued was nil (2023: nil) and the number of directors to whom defined contribution pension contributions accrued was 1 (2023: 1).
(d) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) remuneration
2024 |
2023 |
|
Basic salary |
(225) |
(225) |
Other short-term employee costs |
(23) |
(24) |
Post-employment benefits - pension contributions |
(27) |
(27) |
Total |
(275) |
(276) |
As a result of a Government direction in 2011, the CEO does not have access to the payment of a performance related award, and therefore no such payments have been paid to the CEO.