Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise on behalf of the Greens to support this bill the Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 3). It's got (No 3)" next to it because these bills come to the House every now and then. Usually they just snooze through the House but it must be an election year. I want to begin my contribution by acknowledging those people that are at the chalkface of making sure that our tamariki our students get everything that they need in terms of guiding them through the education system—in particular those teachers that showed up on the parliamentary forecourt last week. There was around 60000 teachers from across kindergarten to primary school to principals and of course the two unions: Te Riu Roa NZEI and Te Wehengarua the Post Primary Teachers' Association. There's been a lot of conversation about the big educational issues that we should be focusing on and if we want to know what those educational issues are we only need to think back to last week because teachers in large numbers told us what those issues were. It's around making sure that they can put food on the table roofs over their heads and that their pay is in line with inflation. We all know that fruit and veg has gone up 21 percent so things are getting more and more expensive. But more than that and in addition to that it's around workload it's around ratios in classrooms making sure that kindergarten teachers can get appropriate sick leave making sure that there are strategies to make sure that we retain staff and get staff back in; there's a teaching shortage out there. So if we're going to talk about the educational issues they've told us about them.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Well Mr Tuiono we're here to talk about the bill too now. TEANAU TUIONO: Yep I'm about to get on to the bill. Everyone else was talking about the wider education issues and I wanted to offer illumination if you like about that. Along with everybody else around the House I also want to mihi to the wānanga—nō reira—our kōhanga reo and our kura kaupapa. There are specific provisions within this Act which on the face of it will help them to be who they are and what they want to be. So for example we talked earlier about an ability to convert to a non-Crown entity wānanga that is primarily accountable to iwi hapū or another Māori organisation while retaining some accountability to the Crown and with bespoke purpose functions and governance arrangements.Nō reira me mihi atu au ki te Whakatupuranga Rua Mano Te Wānanga o Raukawa Te Wānanga o Awanuiārangi me Te Wānanga o Aotearoa me ō rātou nei kaupapa kia hāngai atu ki te hāpai atu i tēnei mea te mana me te tino rangatiratanga. Me mihi anō hoki au ki a rātou mā ki roto i ngā kura kaupapa. Kei roto i te ture ngā kōrero mō te kura kaupapa rātou anō i tiaki i ā tātou tamariki mokopuna kia mau anō rātou ki ō rātou nei tuakiritanga. Hoi e piri ana tērā āhuatanga katoa ki ō tātou nei kōhanga reo. Nō reira ko te ia o ngā kōrero ki tēnei o ngā ture me mihi ka tika. Hoki ake au ki tērā o ngā whakataukī o ō tātou nei mātau tūpuna "Ko te manu e kai ana i te miro nōna te ngahere; engari ko te manu e kai ana i te mātauranga nōna anō te ao". Nō reira koutou anō Te Wānanga koutou anō ngā kura kaupapa kura ā-iwi te katoa o ō tātou nei āhuatanga rumaki me mihi ka tika.[So it is appropriate for me to acknowledge Whakatupuranga Rua Mano Te Wānanga o Raukawa Te Wānanga o Awanuiārangi and Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and their initiatives aimed at uplifting this thing we call power and self-determination. I should also acknowledge those who are in our Māori-medium schools. In this legislation are references to kura kaupapa those who care for our children and grandchildren so that they retain their identity. However all of those things are also relevant to kōhanga reo. So the trend of statements about this legislation it is only correct to pay tribute. I go back to that particular proverb of our ancestors "The bird that consumes the berries is lord of the forest; but the bird that consumes knowledge is master of the world". So to you in Te Wānanga and you in Māori-medium schools iwi-affiliated schools and all of our immersion contexts it is appropriate to pay tribute to you.]I am looking forward to this bill coming to the select committee process. I did want to acknowledge the comments of the Hon Kelvin Davis in terms of the often robust discussions that we have to have with wānanga with our Māori whānau as well. And those are good discussions. We need to be absolutely sure that what we are doing in this House actually helps them to do the things that they need to do in terms of making sure that those educational outcomes are good for our people and good for our iwi. So I'm looking forward to the select committee process and I'm hoping—and I'm pretty sure—that the wānanga will come along and they will give us some illumination; in particular about those particular parts within this Act about whether there are issues for them around whether this helps them or other. There are other things that the select committee might be able to unpack to make those particular provisions even stronger. And also with the ones that focus on kura kaupapa as well I'm hoping some of our kura will come along Te Rūnanga Nui as well just to make sure—at least for this member—that what we are doing here is as specific and as useful for them as they carry out their purposes. So on that the Greens will be supporting this amendment. These things come before the House that's why it's called (No 3). It's an election year which is why members across the House are quite excited I think. But I'll end my contribution there.E mihi ana ki ō tātou nei pouako puta noa i Aotearoa. Tēnā koe tēnā koutou. [I acknowledge our teachers all across Aotearoa. Thank you thank all of you.]"