DCC’S three executive directors shared remuneration of €2.81 million in the year to the end of March 2011, down almost 12 per cent from €3.19 million the previous year.

The industrial holdings group’s chief executive, Tommy Breen, was paid €1.41 million for the period, down some 16 per cent from €1.67 million the previous year.

Finance director Fergal O’Dwyer was paid €753,000, down 5 per cent from €792,000, while Donal Murphy, the managing director of DCC Energy and an executive director of the group, was paid €651,000, down 9.6 per cent from €720,000.

DCC chairman Michael Buckley got a total fee of €190,000 for the year, down from €225,000.