{"id":272030,"date":"2026-02-07T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/272030\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:58:09","slug":"row-breaks-out-as-rte-is-accused-of-trying-to-raid-its-pension-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/272030\/","title":{"rendered":"Row breaks out as RT\u00c9 is accused of trying to \u2018raid\u2019 its pension scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">National broadcaster wants to stop paying annual \u20ac600,000 cost of administering the fund\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mari Hurley, chief financial officer at RT\u00c9. Photo: Maxwells\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/d23ee26b-c6ba-4bd1-9597-8e88ccd50acb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Mari Hurley, chief financial officer at RT\u00c9. Photo: Maxwells<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">RT\u00c9 has asked the Government for permission to offload the \u20ac600,000-a-year cost of administering a pension scheme for retired staff onto the fund itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Angry pensioners, who have accused the station of trying to \u201craid\u201d the scheme, have written to Alan Kelly, chair of the Oireachtas Media Committee, urging him to hold a special hearing where the RT\u00c9 board would justify the action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National broadcaster wants to stop paying annual \u20ac600,000 cost of administering the fund Mari Hurley, chief financial officer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,101111,111,139,69,244,245,42351],"class_list":{"0":"post-272030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-john-burns","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-personal-finance","15":"tag-personalfinance","16":"tag-rte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}