54 CRH Report on Directors’  Remuneration  Bill Egan Dan O’Connor  Committee Chairman  Senior Independent Director Nicky Hartery John Kennedy Remuneration Committee Chairman’s overview The  Remuneration Committee  currently consists of  four non-executive Directors considered by the  Board to be independent. I believe that the  Directors’ biographical details, on pages 36 and  37, demonstrate that the members of the  Committee bring the range of experience of large  organisations and public companies, including  experience in the area of senior executive  remuneration, to enable the Committee to fulfil its role.  Our main focus as a Committee is to determine  and agree with the Board the Group’s policy on  executive remuneration and to consider and  approve salaries and other terms of the  remuneration packages for the executive Directors  and the Chairman. In addition, we recommend and  monitor the level and structure of remuneration for  senior management. We review, on an ongoing  basis, the constituent elements of the Group’s  remuneration policy and we oversee the  preparation of this Report on Directors’  Remuneration.  As a Committee, we focus on ensuring that CRH’s  remuneration structures are fair and responsible. In  considering remuneration levels for executive  Directors particularly, we take into account  remuneration trends across the Group, which has a  diverse range of operations in 35 countries, in  geographic regions which are often at different  stages in the economic cycle.  Additional details in relation to the Committee, its  role and responsibilities and how it operates are  included in the  Remuneration Committee  section of  the Corporate Governance report on page 50. The  Chief Executive attends meetings except when his  own remuneration is being discussed.  In the past 12 months the  Remuneration  Committee  met five times. We allocated our time  broadly as set out in the panel opposite.  We considered the level of fees/salaries paid to the  Chairman and the executive Directors and  determined that, with effect from 1 January 2013:  – the Chairman’s fees be restored to the level  which applied in 2008; – the salaries paid to executive Directors be  increased by between 2.6% and 3.8%.