Parmar ParmjeetDr PARMJEET PARMAR (National): I was so proud to see our leader Simon Bridges announce on the weekend at the National Party conference that we will bring partnership schools back. Yes when we get elected in the next term we will bring partnership schools back because we care about students getting the best possible opportunity to do well especially Māori and Pasifika students. We know that Māori and Pasifika students are doing really well in partnership schools and the member who just spoke before me Nanaia Mahuta—yes she is passionate about Māori employment; she should also get passionate about Māori education and support partnership schools.I was also proud to see that yes we have focused on quality engagement in schools quality of teaching and quality teachers. Now we are focused on smaller class sizes. That is to provide quality engagement between students and their teachers which is very important. The Government has a very important role to play when it comes to education because our children are our future and along with the Government yes of course teachers have their role to play parents have their role to play and students have their contribution to make as well.I got a visit from a former resident of Mount Roskill a few years ago. I say former" because she lived in Mount Roskill for several years but because of a situation in her family she needed housing help and she has been put in an emergency house that is in South Auckland. This person has four children. She has now been in an emergency house for the last three months. So every morning what she does is bring her four children to Mount Roskill. Two children she drops at a primary school then one at intermediate school and the fourth one at one of the colleges in Mount Roskill. That's the level of commitment I see from parents for their children when it comes to education.When she was talking to me she had tears in her eyes. This was because what she does after dropping her children at their respective schools is spend her time until 3 p.m. in her car because she can't afford to go back to South Auckland and come back again at 3 o'clock to pick up her children. That is how hard it is for families especially low-income families under this Labour-led Government and the regional fuel tax is hitting such families hard. After picking up her four children she takes them to their respective sports and extracurricular activities. By the time she gets home it is 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. That is her life and she cannot afford to drive back to her home before 3 o'clock because of the regional fuel tax.I remember Minister Phil Twyford and Mayor Phil Goff saying that it's equal to a coffee. The cost of this is going to be equal to a coffee? Yes it might be easy for Minister Phil Twyford and easy for Mayor Phil Goff to grab coffees from cafes but it's not easy for ordinary people to grab coffees from cafes. Ordinary people go to cafes for coffee only on special occasions. That was the level of arrogance we saw from this Government and also from Mayor Phil Goff. There is no consideration from this Government for low-income families.A few weeks ago I hosted a volunteers' morning tea. This was to mark National Volunteer Week. There was an elderly gentleman there. He was so agitated. He said that for the first time his daughter is saying that she is planning to move to Australia. This is the first time he said that they have been having this kind of conversation in their family. I can understand that because as an immigrant myself it's not easy to leave your home country and start all over again and I can understand the frustration that he had. This is because this Government doesn't care about our children. This is because this Government doesn't care about our future but we on this side—we do. And that's why I am really proud of those announcements that we will bring back partnership schools and also we will reduce class sizes.Business confidence is important because that is about the future that we can give to our children and we have seen the same thing happening in the R & D sector. With the R & D tax credit policy the only publicly available submission which was from NZTech expressed critical concerns. There were critical concerns from NZTech which represents more than 800 organisations. What does that tell you? Thank you."