Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. I want to begin by acknowledging all of our teachers and everybody that works in the education sector who have gone back to school as well—I know there'll be some relieved parents out there as our tamariki have gone back to school—but also to acknowledge the enormous amount of pressure that they're under as well.And I was just reflecting on a headline that said teacher sick days are up 50 percent on 2021 and there have been calls for more support and how important that is given that we're living in the middle of a COVID pandemic and the need to actually support those people that support our children to do the best and be the best that they can be within the education and school settings as well. So enormous pressures for them but also acknowledging that there have been some movements to provide N95 masks and better ventilations and so on and so forth. But also reflecting on the need to actually have an expert-led school plan as well—and I'm hoping that's on the agenda for the Government to make sure so that people aren't trying to do that guesswork in terms of how they manage their different school communities. Because when you talk to teachers sometimes teachers are parents as well and they'll have children in one school while they're teaching at another school and so if those two schools have completely different types of ways that they deal with the COVID pandemic around masking and all of that kind of stuff that gets a bit tricky for them. So keep that on the radar our friends in that corner of the House.This bill is a small technical bill and it's got a number: the Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 2). All of these bills always seem to have the same name—you've got No. 2 No. 1 with the third readings of it's like listening to a trilogy. This one focuses on allowing the police vetting provisions; amongst many other things strengthening teaching council disciplinary processes; requiring compulsory student services fees; and enabling NZQA to exercise discretion about whether to cancel the registration of a private training establishment in relation to immigration breaches and so on and so forth—important things that need to be wrapped around and sorted out and we support that.But I guess my reflection on listening to the debate today—I understand the importance of having that certainty for people that are setting up early childhood education (ECE) centres and for business to have that certainty to go about and do those things. But on the other hand it's important for us to remember that that should be about what is the best for our tamariki what is the best for our mokopuna what are the standards that are in place to make sure that they're being taught in the best ways possible and the ways that that can be organised to support them to do that.Sometimes I listen to the debate and I think sometimes you could just transfer out ECE for burger joint—you know what I'm saying? You could be talking about anything. It sounds like you could be setting up a McDonald's franchise but actually we're talking about tamariki we're talking about childhoods being able to support services for our children. And that's what the focus should be. And so bringing that all under one umbrella makes sure there are those small technical fixes to make sure that there is some sort of overall coverage and focus on whether that stuff that is being carried out is a good thing. So on that we support this bill.