To ask the Minister of Education detail the organisations, agencies and arm's-length bodies in his Department that can avail of the Voluntary Exit Scheme.

The Department of Education’s arm’s length bodies that could avail of the Voluntary Exit Scheme are:-

Education Authority

Council for Catholic Maintained Schools

Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment

Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education

Comhairle na Gaelscolaiochta

General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland

Youth Council for Northern Ireland

Middletown Centre for Autism Ltd

It is a matter for each of these bodies as individual employers to determine whether or not they have a need for a Voluntary Exit Scheme.

In order to access funding from the Public Sector Transformation Fund for a Voluntary Exit Scheme, the arm’s length body will need to have a scheme which has been approved by my Department.