Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran says the fallout from her meeting with Carol Hirschfeld will unlikely affect funding allocated to RNZ and has not damaged the relationship with the state broadcaster.
RNZ is set to receive $38m in the next budget round and the minister has said the aftermath of her controversial meeting with the former-RNZ head of news Carol Hirschfeld would likely have no bearing on that funding allocation.
Curran told Q + A while she couldn't confirm that RNZ would receive the funding there was still a plan in place "to turn RNZ into a more evolved multimedia entity".
"That plan has not changed [but] the quantum of the investment in this budget cycle is still unclear because we're still in that process."
Labour campaigned on forming RNZ+, a free-to-air non-commercial television service, and Curran said this was still the government's intention.