Barry Lenihan

yes sean rocks the presenter of the arena program on this station from 2009 up until his death in july of last year we confirmed yesterday that his partner of 22 years catherine bailey met the minister communications minister patrick o'donovan on monday to express her concern about the classification of mr rocks during his time with rte it's believed she told the minister

that Mr. Rox, the Monaghan native, was primarily classified as a producer, even though his role was to all intent and purposes and publicly referred to as a presenter, and that this has had financial implications for her upon Mr. Rox's death last July for her and her young family.

Now, RTE, while acknowledging an issue with Mr. Rox,

acknowledging that this meeting had happened.

It has provided general details of its pension policy.

It says it has a group life assurance policy which pays two and a half times the insured pensionable pay on death in service.

And this is for basic salary plus pensionable allowances and that these would be advised by RTE by its pension administrators.

And there's also a 50-50 scheme in its defined contribution pension scheme

for spouses' death in service pension.

That is based on pensionable salary and potential pensionable service.

And children's pensions are also payable.

But Miss Bailey has concerns about that.

And it's understood that some of the concerns in relation to the case of our late colleague, Sean Rocks, that they will be aired at the committee meeting this afternoon.