CEO insists Uisce Éireann is 'value for money' after State body paid €13.m in bonuses last year

'I would say that we definitely deliver good services around the country,' chief executive Niall Gleeson told the Public Accounts Committee

Uisce Éireann CEO Niall Gleeson said today: 'We have challenges but I do think that it is money that is well spent.' File picture: Naoise Culhane

Water utility Uisce Éireann has defended its bonus scheme and money received from the State, insisting that such investment represents “value for money”.

The utility, first set up in 2013 as Irish Water to handle domestic water charges, told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that it received close to €1.7bn from the State in 2024 between capital and subvention, or grant, payments.