3. Question No. 3—EducationIBRAHIM OMER (Labour) to the Minister of EducationQuestion No. 3—EducationSPEAKER: Question number—[Interruption] Look I'm on my feet. Who interjected? Out. Question No. 3—Ibrahim Omer.Hon Paul Goldsmith withdrew from the Chamber. IBRAHIM OMER (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker—Chris Bishop: Point of order. Mr Speaker I'm just reflecting on the proportionality of the punishment to the crime here.SPEAKER: The member will resume his seat. I have made a ruling. I have—Chris Bishop: I know that.SPEAKER: The member doesn't even know what he's muttering when I'm on my feet yet again as he didn't yesterday. I mean the member should know when he is talking because otherwise there's a disconnect there somewhere. I have ruled. Ibrahim Omer.IBRAHIM OMER: Thank you Mr Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Education and asks: What new action is the Government taking to support schools to provide learning environments for their students that are warm dry"—[Interruption]SPEAKER: Right. Which member was that? Who interjected then? Tim van de Molen: Me—it was me.SPEAKER: Well the member will join his colleague.Tim van de Molen withdrew from the Chamber. Hon Simon Bridges: Point of order. It's a fresh point. One thing that concerned me was at the end of that question 4 and I didn't raise a point of order because I thought it was going to be what Chris Bishop would raise we had all of this section [Gestures towards the Government benches] clapping like performing seals and I found it very disruptive. The point simply is that that did seem to me disorderly and I wondered why you didn't rule on it.SPEAKER: Well I think—well once again the member's been here for some time—Hon Todd McClay: Like seals.SPEAKER: Oh Todd McClay. I just don't believe it. Hon Member: Let's go.Hon Members: We'll all just go.SPEAKER: No. Order! Hon Todd McClay: The best punishment would be to make me stay.SPEAKER: No no I understand that. You get the same punishment as Mr Bridges used to get on Thursday afternoon: you have to stay. Just a couple of points. First of all we haven't got to question 4 yet. The second point I'd make is the member knows that if he has a point of order he should take it at the time or even straight after the member. If he had a different point of order he could have taken it. He chose not to. We went on to a question and then he interrupted it. It's just—oh I don't know. I mean—Hon Members: Ha ha!SPEAKER: It's fair to say that we should probably move on because I'm speechless because I know the member is better than that. Ibrahim Omer.3. IBRAHIM OMER (Labour) to the Minister of Education: What new action is the Government taking to support schools to provide learning environments for their students that are "warm dry and fit for purpose"?Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Education): Today I announced a further 23 schools that are set to benefit from the Government's investment in short-term roll-growth classrooms right the way across New Zealand. Schools around New Zealand are growing and as our students and young people return to face-to-face learning we want them to have warm dry fit for purpose classrooms to learn in. This investment ensures that almost 1500 more students will have a place to do that. It's part of the Government's $100 million commitment from Budget 2021 and the Government's plan to provide 100000 additional student spaces by 2030.Dr Deborah Russell: How are schools and students in Auckland benefiting from this initiative?Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: More good news. We're investing $25 million across 17 schools in Auckland to give them additional learning spaces to help them cope with growing student numbers. That includes five classrooms for Green Bay High and two classrooms for Glenavon School in the member's electorate along with six classrooms for Henderson High School and four classrooms each for Henderson Intermediate Kaipara College and Waitakere College.Ingrid Leary: How are schools and students in other parts of the country benefiting from this initiative?Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: Oh considerably. We're investing over $4.5 million in Otago Southland schools. Taieri College in the member's own electorate will get four classrooms. Oamaru Intermediate will get two classrooms. Te Wharekura o Arowhenua will get two classrooms. We're also investing over $6 million in three schools in the Bay of Plenty and Te Awamutu College will get three classrooms. Pāpāmoa College will be getting four classrooms and Merivale School in Tauranga will be getting two additional classrooms.Ibrahim Omer: What progress has been made towards the Government's plan to provide 100000 additional student places by 2030?Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: We have already delivered a fifth of those: 20000 additional student spaces already delivered; 9300 are currently in construction; and we've got 41000 more in the planning and design stage."