Brown SimeonSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): What a low blow by the Minister of Education there. I feel like this Government's popularity is just diving to new depths which is fantastic for us on this side of the Chamber. But I just want to take a call on Part 2 of the Education (Teachers Council of Aotearoa New Zealand) Amendment Bill". Members across the other side of the Chamber might complain about my interpretation of the title calling it the "Teachers Council" but I now have licence to do so from the Minister who said "teachers or teaching—no big deal". So I just want to put that on the record before I get a further barrage of interjections.But let me bring this back to Part 2 because there's a very important point actually here in Part 2 of the bill which is dealing with "Consequential amendments to other enactments". This consequential amendments part is actually inconsistent. I'm not sure if the Minister has noticed but the committee stage of the Parliament is the opportunity to fix up whether it's minor or major things. I think in this bill it's probably minor; in employment law possibly it's going to be major. We'll wait and see whether that's the case or not. But here we have some inconsistencies.As we read through it clause 8 says "From the commencement of this section—(a) the Education Council Rules 2016 are called the Teaching Council Rules"—that's carried through in paragraph (b) of that clause. Then what we have here in clause 9(2) paragraphs (a) and (b) there is basically an inconsistency. It says in paragraph (a) "the Education Council must be read as a reference to the Teaching Council:"; in paragraph (b) it says "the Education Council of Aotearoa New Zealand must be read as a reference to the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand." I'm not sure whether he's willing to include the Teaching Council of Aotearoa and just have the full name in paragraph (a) as the "Teaching Council of Aotearoa"—is he trying to save ink in consequential amendments?I would like to bring back to the Minister's attention that the purpose of the renaming is to "better reflect the bicultural nature of this country." I'd like to ask the Minister if he is willing to take into account some changes—I'm happy to draft amendments or whether his officials would be willing to support him in that—to make sure that this actually does reflect the bicultural nature of New Zealand which he argues is required to improve this piece of legislation or to improve the Education Council by changing the name. I'd like him to answer that question because consistency is an important point. We are talking about consequential amendments. It does have an impact on other pieces of legislation and the reference which is made to other pieces of legislation—and a debate which will be further and ongoing in this area. I'd like him to answer that question as to whether he is prepared to make some changes to that.Back to clause 8 where it refers to the "Teaching Council Rules"—I'd like him to also answer the question of why he is keeping it as the "Teaching Council Rules" rather than changing that also to the "Teaching Council of Aotearoa Rules" to better reflect the bicultural nature of New Zealand which is what is argued in the Education and Workforce Committee's report as the purpose of renaming the Education Council. I think those are important points that I'd like him to answer. It's about the cohesiveness of this piece of legislation the consequential nature and the consistency—the "three Cs" not the "three Rs" of this legislation. It's something that I think he needs to reflect on as Minister of Education as to how he would like this Teaching Council to be known and to be talked about in other pieces of legislation. So those are I guess some more technical matters.I also note that this does also make changes to the Ombudsmen Act the Privacy Act and the State Sector Act. When I read those parts under schedule 4 I am pleased to see that it is referring to the full name of the "Teaching Council of Aotearoa". I'm pleased to see that the consistency has flowed through. It says here in schedule 4 Part 2 under the amendment to the Ombudsmen Act "insert in its appropriate alphabetical order: Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand"; then under the amendment to the Privacy Act "replace … with 'Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand"; and again with the State Sector Act "replace … with 'Teaching Council of Aotearoa". So will he be requiring some consistency and will he support my amendments for that? Thank you."