Belich CamillaCAMILLA BELICH (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to take a call on this Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 3). It was a pleasure to be a part of the Education and Workforce Committee when this bill was considered. I want to thank all members of the committee and all the submitters that came to the committee—I think actually reflecting the tone of the last member's speech: that on most issues we worked really well together and there was quite a significant part of common ground in relation to what we sought to be achieved by this bill.Now although this is an amendment bill it does cover a number of different areas and it would be literally impossible to cover all of those areas because there are so many distinct areas in the short time that we have available. The Minister of Education has covered off I believe very well the issue of representation of boards and so I won't seek to repeat that but I affirm the comments that she's made.I would just like to touch on some of the main parts of this bill which I do think are important and that's the new governance framework in relation to wānanga. There was as I said a lot of agreement between members of the committee on this issue and I think the main difference was how we went about achieving that.We were very impressed and very grateful to the wānanga that submitted to us on this bill. I have to say it was probably one of the most impactful submissions that I've seen in my time in Parliament on a select committee. They spoke very eloquently and the entire committee was very impressed by their advocacy.They had been very supportive of this bill. The reason that we were unable to move forward with the protected term matter in relation to wānanga" that all of us saw on the committee saw as an issue is because there is a little bit of work that needs to be done because there are some entities that use the word "wānanga". It is a Māori word with a specific term and it has been used by other entities and so protecting that term is not as straightforward as you might think.That doesn't mean that we didn't see that there was a large issue with the fact that we had protected terms for "polytechnics" and for "universities" but not for "wānanga"; we saw that as an inequity and for that reason we made a very strong recommendation on our select committee report and recommended as a matter of priority that the Government undertake full consultation of policy work with the aim of legally protecting the term "wānanga".So it was something that we saw as important. We were unable to in the time that was available do that consultation and that was also at the direction of the wānanga who said they would prefer the governance arrangements to be in place and they didn't want this bill to be delayed. So that's that's the reason for that but it is something that as I said the committee as a whole was very supportive of.The other thing I just want to touch on briefly is the use of the terms "category A wānanga" and "category B wānanga". Those are placeholder terms which allow for more appropriate terms to be put in place by Order in Council at a later date. The reason that we did that was because of the strong advocacy that we heard from the wānanga when they came to talk to us. We were unable to find agreement after their submission on the exact terms to be used and it is a big decision so it was decided that this term would be used. It has in fact I think been used in another similar situation: naming of Te Pūkenga—as I understand an Order in Council to put into the legislation a more appropriate term.Those are the two issues that I wanted to highlight in what is a very important bill. There's also some important matters which haven't been traversed that much on police vetting for non-child workers and there are guidelines to strengthen having the people possibly in contact or near children to make sure they go through an appropriate police vets. So that's another important aspect of this bill. I commend it to the House."