Bates CarlCARL BATES (National—Whanganui): Thank you Madam Speaker and thank you for giving me the opportunity this evening to speak on the Regulatory Systems (Education) Amendment Bill.Hon Member: An important bill.CARL BATES: It is an important bill and it reminded me actually my wonderful colleague the MP down there in Christchurch Hamish Campbell—Cameron Brewer: Doctor.CARL BATES: Dr Hamish Campbell—thank you—Dr Hamish Campbell speaking about maiden speeches and it reminded me of something that I said in my maiden speech: that this House must make choices about what the role of Government is and what it is not. We cannot and should not do everything nor attempt to solve every problem. And it's bills like this that make sure our legislation is clear about what the Government will do and what it won't do what the responsibility of the board is and what the responsibility of the board is not. And I think as we navigate our way through legislation and regulation in this House it's important to reflect on that pivotal moment at the beginning of our journey in this House about why we are here and what it is that we intend on achieving while we're here.That brings me to my colleagues on the Education and Workforce Committee. I just have to acknowledge the great mahi of our chairwoman Katie Nimon—her excellent speech just before where she traversed this bill I think very fully—and I acknowledge her recognition of those members who have families and have children and how a bill like this will just fix that little challenge that there is when it comes to childcare. But I'll come back to that colleagues a little later in my opportunity to share this evening.I also want to acknowledge the great member for the Wairarapa great new member outstanding member one of my rural and provincial colleagues Madam Speaker as are you from one of the strong national parks of the country. And Mike it's been great learning from you on the Education and Workforce Committee. You always have questions that really do hone in on the challenge that we're identifying. And of course to Grant McNational" I'm looking forward to your contribution on this bill this evening.I also want to acknowledge Minister Erica Stanford Minister of Education and chair of the Ngarimu Trust. I think the opportunity that Katie Nimon and Dana Kirkpatrick had last week to be in her presence when she spoke about the value of these scholarships and the opportunity that they provide for the recipients sounded like it was really an event not to be missed. I know what it takes to drive long distances in a provincial electorate to get to events like these. And I just want to acknowledge the work of our two members of Napier and of East Coast to get to an event such as that and ensure that those 12—am I correct? Twelve? Thirteen?Katie Nimon: 12.CARL BATES: 12 recipients on the day—yep 12 or thereabouts—were well recognised by the local members.I also touched briefly in my maiden speech on a business that I'd been involved in founding and that happened to be in the space of creating boards and appointing boards. So with the amendment in this bill this evening around the addition of the role of the Governor-General in appointing an additional member to the trust board of Māori descent it just takes me back to that time. I spent 16 years in fact being involved in appointing boards here in New Zealand and around the world. The role of having diversity in the boardroom is really important particularly when it relates to the history and the reason for existence of the trust of the organisation and I think it's a great step this evening that we are ensuring that opportunity to have the appointment to this trust of someone of Māori descent to carry on that legacy of the 28th Māori Battalion. It is really important to ensure that the right individuals receive these scholarships. In fact late last year I suppose as part of the "Mr Everywhere" thank you Katie Nimon that you referred to before I happened to be in Stratford and I attended the air cadets' final parade for the year. It was the first time a local member of Parliament had attended their final parade in Stratford in a number of years. In fact it was long ago; they couldn't remember the last time a local member of Parliament had attended their final parade. But it makes me wonder whether one of those young men or women could be a future recipient of this scholarship. So I'm looking forward to seeing in the years to come who the recipients of these scholarships are. I want to come to the third part of this bill which is around the addition of the police-vetting amendment. The amendment is to ensure that not only do all childcare workers in these part-time facilities have to be police-vetted but that they are police-vetted before being employed. I think personally that that's quite a critical point. There's no point in employing the person adding to the red tape of that small business or that business that's providing this service to parents like myself and my wonderful wife Candice—it's ensuring that they've had that police vet before they're actually employed. Indeed Candice and I used these a lot particularly when we lived in South Africa. The particular gym that we used to go to had one of these facilities where you could have your child go into it for half an hour an hour or a couple of hours and they were fantastic. They gave us the opportunity to actually get that bit of time to keep healthy and fit and engaged. But what made me wonder was what would parents be able to do now with the confidence that they could have their young children or tamariki go in and spend an hour a half an hour or two hours in the confidence that they were being looked after by people who had been police-vetted and I had I suppose what you would call an epiphany. I realised—[Interruption] This'll be good guys. I realised that they're going to be able to take that opportunity to go and spend—because many of these parents will be from households earning under $180000 and they will be able to take their FamilyBoost tax credit and they'll be able to go and spend it. They'll actually be able to take some money that the Government has given them with the confidence and the safety of knowing that their children are being—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): Can I just bring the member back to this particular bill. CARL BATES: I will come back Madam Speaker. But I just thought that that was such an important context that parents will be able to use that because they know and have confidence that their children are being looked after by people who have been police-vetted. It's critical. But I won't go on then to just share the detail of that announcement around FamilyBoost with the House to sort of demonstrate and reinforce the point about why parents will have that confidence and I will as you request come back maybe the more substantive point of the bill. So I want to just talk about the preservation of the mana of our 28th Māori Battalion because the other—[Interruption] And I want to acknowledge the presence—oh I'm not allowed to acknowledge the presence but I want to acknowledge the chair of the Māori Affairs Committee our great MP for Northcote. Northcote is pleased to have a new MP in Dan Bidois and I'm looking forward actually next week to taking him to meet some of potentially the cadets that I spoke about when he was in the wonderful electorate of Whanganui. But I want to talk about the mana of the 28th Māori Battalion in terms of the protection of their name because having been in businesses that have had to protect their trade marks over many years I understand the importance of names and badges. As my colleague from the other side of the House referenced earlier I think it's outstanding that this bill is ensuring that there is clarity around the ownership—who is holding and who is looking after that badge and that name for years to come—and it won't be a lack of clarity in that regard. Finally I just want to touch very briefly on the change in recognition for Pasifika people in New Zealand. We have a much broader remit now for the scholarships for those who have the opportunity to apply for—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): The member's time has expired. This call is a split call."