Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It would be very helpful for the committee if we were given as a matter of course the full subhead breakdown of both the abridged Estimates volume, AEV, and revised Estimates volume, REV. I am making a request through the committee. Could we get a full subhead breakdown of the REV for 2023? That has never been published. Could we get a full breakdown of the AEV with all the individual subheads? Could we get the full AEV for 2024? When the final REV for 2024 is complete, could we get that?

The second technical question concerns the stranded cost for local authorities as they move towards a single utility. In that allocation of €74 million, is there any opportunity for a local authority manager - where a water services staff member decides to remain in the local authority but, for example, had overtime opportunities as a water services worker that are no longer available as a general operative somewhere else - to continue a person's current full rate of pay or will they only go back to the base rate of pay as, say, a general operative? Do the managers have any discretion within that €74 million?