The Education Authority has to make £200m of savings this year.
However the real-terms reduction, taking account of inflation, is likely to be higher.
In response to a question from SDLP MP Claire Hanna, Ms Long said that 85% of the EA's budget went towards staff costs. "We've done a quick analysis if you like which would suggest it would be about 6,600 whole time equivalents in order to make the scale of reductions that are needed."
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