Kaye NikkiHon NIKKI KAYE (National—Auckland Central): Look I am pleased to speak in this Budget debate but I do have to admit something. I have to admit that I was wrong. I told a range of people that this would probably be one of the largest chunks of cash ever for Vote Education and what is the reality? Less than a 5 percent increase in education.What I'm going to tell the House today is: a litany of broken promises. They are many and that's why we're hearing from the sector. They are disappointed. They are angry. This is a Government that went to the election claiming that they were going to do things like have free iPads and devices for every child modern learning environments for every school counsellors career services and all of these things and where are they? They're not there. The only holes that were actually true when Chris Hipkins was talking about them are the ones that exist because they're not there in his Budget. That is the reality even in school property alone. He went out there and said there was this $1.1 billion hole but the fact is that National took our school property portfolio from $3.5 billion to $5 billion and in this Budget he spent $3 million more than National. That is ridiculous. In the Auckland education property growth plan alone we were looking at a spend of hundreds of millions of dollars per year.But again this commitment over 12 years to provide 30000 schools with modern learning environments—where is it? Chris Hipkins come down to the House and tell New Zealand where that commitment is in the Budget. When it comes to learning support we are pleased—Hon Carmel Sepuloni: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. I'm just concerned that that member referred to a member who wasn't here making it very obvious.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Thank you. I appreciate the intervention.Hon NIKKI KAYE: When it comes to learning support yes we are pleased that there is additional funding for learning support. National increased learning support funding by 30 percent. But what did the Labour Party manifesto say? It said it would uncap the ongoing resourcing scheme (ORS) funding. That means that everybody who needs it could get access. That's not what this Budget delivered.When it comes to the school leavers they promised—let's hear it—$170 million for a school leavers' package. Guess how much was there? $1.7 million—100 times less. This is a Budget of broken promises.Where are the night classes and other adult learning opportunities? Where is the fund that supports senior citizens to adapt to changing technology? Where is the special education needs coordinator funding? Where is the sufficient speech and language therapist funding? Where is the independent disputes resolution tribunal? Where is the College of Educational Leadership?Again I have people contacting me saying What on earth happened here?" The Prime Minister stands up and says that she cares about vulnerable kids at the same time as they're scrapping partnership schools and getting rid of national standards and then in this Budget they have failed to deliver on a number of core education commitments.Where is the reinstatement of extra funding for early childhood education (ECE) centres that employ 100 percent qualified? Where is the young entrepreneurs policy allowing New Zealanders aged 18 to 23—where is restoring the eligibility of students in long courses such as medicine?Tracey Martin—again we acknowledge the funding in terms of learning support. But as part of the coalition agreement it's pretty clear today that what this Budget is about is not only broken promises from Labour—or partially completed promises—but the fact that New Zealand First have not delivered on their coalition agreement. Where is the reinstatement for computers in homes? Where is the restarting of the Te Kotahitanga teacher professional development initiative?This is my point: at a time when they have billions and billions of dollars of cash for Vote Education to receive a less than 5 percent increase to have had a Minister engaging in fake news—claiming $1.1 billion holes in school property not delivering on modern learning environments for every school in New Zealand but then spending about $3 million more in the area of growth—is outrageous. And I want Chris Hipkins to come down to this House—Hon Member: Oh!Hon NIKKI KAYE: OK. I would like Chris Hipkins to go out to New Zealanders—to go out there on national television—and talk about where these education initiatives are and why they have not been delivered. I am not the only one that's saying this because what we also know is in areas like the operations grant again we heard from Labour for so many years about how it wasn't enough.This is a Budget which is really disappointing and for some people they are actually quite angry because they feel misled. They actually feel misled. They believe there was a Labour Party education manifesto document promising night classes promising more counsellors in schools promising 100 percent qualified promising a device and iPad for every child and promising modern learning environments but the reality is—and this is what this Budget should be called. It is not a rebuild Budget. The reality is we did way more with way little.This is the reality Budget. The reality Budget is the fact that Labour's costings were way out. The fact that they've had to manufacture holes which is business as usual and the reality is that they can't deliver on their promises. This Budget is about a whole range of broken promises or partial promises.And I want to also make this point. When it came to Māori and Pasifika achievement National was a Government that saw massive lifts in Māori and Pasifika achievement. And we had targeted funds—for instance last year in early childhood education—that were focused around some of our most vulnerable children. Erica Stanford had a great bill around scrapping the decile system and providing more targeted funding.But what is this Budget also about? It is about missed opportunities and a lack of focus on some of our children with their most complex needs but also the most disadvantaged. What we know is that in a period of six months not only have they let us down in terms of all of these promises but when it comes to some of our most vulnerable children—whether it's partnership schools whether it's national standards going whether it's the lack of targeted funding in this Budget whether it's the inability to scrap the decile and provide a new system whether it's speech and language therapists—the rhetoric and the statements that they've previously made don't match up.We on this side of the House are absolutely focused on those children having those opportunities. We on this side of the House are absolutely focused on lifting achievement. We are focused on reform and system change and we managed to as well increase Vote Education from $8 billion to $11 billion under our time in office. And at a time when they are awash with cash—billions more from additional revenue—at a time when they have billions more education is the major failure in the Budget. It gets less than a 5 percent increase.And again we've had radio silence from the Minister. We can't understand why all of these manifesto commitments are not being delivered. We can't understand why the school leavers' kit went from $170 million to $1.7 million. The reality is that Chris Hipkins lost out to a range of other Cabinet Ministers.And who did he lose out to? He lost out to embassies in Stockholm. He lost out to foreign diplomats. So the facts are that a whole lot children—some disadvantaged children—have not got the funding that they need or schools' operations grants haven't increased enough or we don't have the level of support for counsellors or other support services in schools because Winston Peters got a few extra diplomats across the world. So no longer will we accept any of the excuses that we get. To put it in perspective—to put it in a really basic perspective—you're talking tens of millions of dollars for school operation grants yet Winston Peters gets hundreds and millions of dollars for diplomats. That is actually another major point about this Budget: not only is it a Budget of broken promises not only is it a Budget of partial things being delivered—it is a Budget of blowouts but it's also a Budget of priorities. At a time of billions of dollars of extra cash education is the poor cousin to a whole range of portfolios.The fact is the Prime Minister can no longer stand up in this House and say that children are the centre of this Government because 2500 schools and thousands of early childhood education centres are saying "Where is the cash for education?" That's what's happening. I've got them in my in-box—a whole lot of schools principals NZEI Te Riu Roa unions. Everyone is saying with billions—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Order! Your time has expired."