Martin TraceyTRACEY MARTIN (NZ First): Kia ora Mr Speaker. Yesterday the Hon Nikki Kaye returned to the House and it was great to see her. It was great to see her on her feet and as passionate as she has ever been I believe with regard to New Zealand education and New Zealand children.One of the things that Minister Kaye did was she challenged the Opposition to fact check. So I decided that I would. I went away and had a look at a couple of things that had been said by the Government and its support parties. I want to start with some things that the Māori Party and the ACT Party made mention of in their contributions yesterday and it is something that they have said a few times. One of them is the statement that New Zealand First does not support settlement bills. So I thought: well I will go and find out—I will go and find out.New Zealand First has been in this Parliament since the 45th Parliament since 1996. We had a small break between 2008 and 2011 where we refreshed and came back in strength—and came back in strength. During that time there were 54 settlement bills. During the time that New Zealand First has been in the House there have been 54 settlement bills. Of those settlement bills New Zealand First has voted in favour of 49. New Zealand First has voted against five. The ACT Party has voted against seven.Let us be clear. When the Government support parties want to talk about who supports settlements on record in the Hansard they need to have a look at the people whom they sit just down from rather than shouting across the House with regard to New Zealand First.Tim Macindoe: New Zealand First still welched on the deal late last year.TRACEY MARTIN: I would suggest to the Government whip that if the Government is going to include secret clauses that even Māoridom do not know about in legislation—secret clauses that Māoridom do not even know about in legislation—then they should expect some opposition from the Opposition.Let us also have a talk about the fact that the Māori Party yesterday apparently took credit for among other contributions or other things that they have achieved for Māori free doctors visits. I will agree that the co-leader of the Māori Party amended that initial statement to say raising the age of". This is a party that says and colludes with others to say that New Zealand First does not stand for Māori and that the Rt Hon Winston Peters does not stand for Māori in this House. In 2005 free doctors visits which yesterday the Māori Party claimed credit for in its coalition with the National Government was introduced in a memorandum of understanding between New Zealand First and the Labour Party. So let us get clear: you cannot have it both ways. Alternative facts at the end of the day will be shown to be exactly that.So if we keep going forward Mr Seymour for example talked about expanding charter schools because they are doing so well. I believe that the Māori Party supported that vigorously yesterday. Let us just be clear: I believe that the co-leader of the Māori Party shouted out again and again and again that they are working for Māori. Let us be clear: 95 percent—Marama Fox: Ask Willie. I think I said: "Ask Willie".TRACEY MARTIN: I do not need to talk to Mr Jackson ma'am. You are speaking to the wrong party. They completely disregard the fact that 95 percent of Māori students in this country are at English-medium schools completely ignoring all those Māori students whom apparently the Māori Party does not care about because it is concentrating only on charter schools in this supposed position of power. But let us be clear about their academic outcomes shall we? Let us be clear.In November last year the Ministry of Education put out a report quite clearly showing that the data that was used—Mr Seymour of the ACT Party stood up and said that Vanguard for example had a 100 percent NCEA level 2 pass rate. What is unfortunate is that there is a Ministry of Education report that says: "Oh dang. They didn't report it in the same way that every other State school has to report it." So that pass rate dropped to 60 percent—60 percent.Hon Anne Tolley: You want to fact check that because they don't have to report it that way.TRACEY MARTIN: You fact check it ma'am. If I have to you have to do it. Sorry Mr Speaker not you but I suggest that Minister Tolley might like to go and check the ministerial education report.Then what we have is we have Te Kāpehu Whetū (Teina) achieving only two of its 18 targets—only two of its 18 targets—but apparently this is doing wonderfully well for Māori students; so well that Mr Seymour says that this country should expand charter schools so that we can spread the profit margin around the sector there. Not only that but this Government apparently has agreed with Mr Seymour to start opening science charter schools and technology charter schools. Perhaps other speakers from the Government might like to stand and take a call on that. Perhaps they could tell us how that works out.What was interesting about the Prime Minister's speech was that he did not say a thing about students. He did not say a thing about students. He did not mention the number of Victoria University students who have been walking around the streets trying to find somewhere to live. He did not talk about the students up in Auckland who have been swapping sex for somewhere to live. He did not talk about the university student associations that are handing out more food parcels than they have ever handed out before. He did not talk about the special needs students.Talk about fact check! Ms Parata stands and talks about how well this Government is doing in education and yet we have just had the Education and Science Committee ask for another review—around about the 10th review—of how badly we are delivering as a country for children with special needs. There are one in five children with dyslexia and one in eight children suffering from dyspraxia. There are so many cases of autism now that we do not have any level of professionalism to deal with it.One of the other things that Mr English did not comment on was workforce planning. Do we have any—do we have any? We do not since this Government removed it 2 years ago. Mr Joyce removed anybody's responsibility for workforce planning. But what we do have and it was mentioned in Mr English's speech was a new global impact visa which will be piloted to attract up to 400 young technology entrepreneurs. So there are 100 places for international candidates per year but only 20 places to support current New Zealand entrepreneurs in technology are going to be funded by this Government. This is what the Prime Minister said yesterday.But wait there is more. Of those 100 places for international candidates per year they get the opportunity for a 3-year open work visa and are then eligible to apply for permanent residency. This is designed to attract those who may not be able to qualify under other visa categories. So we have not got enough people coming into the country at the moment! We have got high levels of unemployment particularly among our young people. Forty-one thousand work visas were handed out last year and this Government has decided "What we'll do is we won't tell the New Zealand public that actually we're not going to cut down on work visas; we're going to come up with something with another name for people who can't use the usual process for average everyday Joe and we're going to give them another streamlined pathway into New Zealand. That's what we'll do because that's what the New Zealanders are crying out for. We just won't tell them that's what we're going to do. We are sure they will agree with us by the time it's too late to do anything about it."It has been an interesting debate from the perspective of alternative facts. Never before have I sat in this House and listened to so many people spin rubbish. The country has people living in cars and Mr Seymour says that you should vote for the ACT Party because it has been delivering a rational economic policy that has allowed people to build their lives—their lives in cars their lives where their children are so transient that they cannot gain a proper education. Interestingly enough it was the proprietor of a charter school who made that statement to me. They said: "Oh it's really difficult because Māori students are so transient." Oh my goodness! It is because they cannot find a job it is because they cannot find a house it is because they cannot connect to their communities and that is why the public school system has been saying it for years. Charter schools are not the answer. This Government is not the answer. Bring on 23 September."