Mahuta NanaiaHon NANAIA MAHUTA (Minister for Māori Development): Kia orana e Te Vaa Tuatua. Look I'm pleased to take a call because we have got the best Minister of Education who has a vision for the future and who will make sure that the education system will work for every New Zealander—every child throughout the country. Do you know what? For far too long over the last nine years under the previous administration we were going down a track where it was all about testing and not about learning. We are scrapping national standards because we know—the information we were hearing back from our schools and our teachers—about all the time that is going into testing and not enough time going into ensuring that our young people in the classroom are learning. But then we get this policy announcement about class sizes. Well I remember that in around about 2014 a previous Minister of Education—one Hon Hekia Parata—talked about larger class sizes not smaller class sizes. So it got me wondering: did Simon Bridges really mean smaller class sizes or smaller classrooms? It's hard to tell—hard to tell. But I know that under an education system where the Hon Chris Hipkins is leading the way we're asking some serious questions about what is the future of education so that all New Zealanders thrive. In fact the whole issue around charter schools—and we stood on this issue going into the election. We didn't believe that it was right to set up a different system of education where money could go to an organisation where you could privatise the benefits and not have the same types of expectations as we do have in the public education system: having qualified teachers and a curriculum that you can rely on that is universally taught and that enables science technology engineering and mathematics teaching actually but doesn't create a tiered system where you could privatise the benefits. No we needed a public education system that could work for all and I'm really proud that not only did we campaign on this but we made good on our word to say that there will be a pathway for those schools who are prepared to operate under the public education system. There will be a bridge and those schools will be approved. The Minister's made those decisions. He has led summits where educationists teachers and principals can all contribute to the future space of re-visioning an education system that works for all New Zealanders—all our kids—because right from early childhood education to tertiary we need to do things very differently and to reorient the skills the learning and what is taught to our young people so that they can be ready for now and into the future. That's the kind of education vision that will take this country forward. Why? Because we know that regional growth and development will matter.Now I want to come to the point about Māori participation in this Government. Yes we are making a big thing about the way in which we contribute to this Government because we know that the influence across every domain of well-being will be seen under this coalition Government and we're pleased about the contribution. In fact just today our Minister of Employment the Hon Willie Jackson has noted how in some of the hardest spaces—vulnerable young people—we've seen a decrease in young Māori not engaged in education employment or training and that's so important because we need to find a way where young people can be more engaged with the employment outcomes in their areas. We are creating partnerships with the Mayors Taskforce for Jobs so that more of our young people can have a pathway and seek training and employment opportunities in their community without having necessarily to go to the largest centre.In the Māori development space I am really proud because housing is at the core of our development aspiration. When people have a secure place to live—a warm healthy home—we know that the opportunities are so much greater. Under the mainframe of our housing aspiration not only will we increase the State housing stock but we will continue to emphasise healthy rentals and also building papakāinga for our whānau so that they can have secure housing.But wait there's more. We have a team of Māori within the Labour coalition Government who are contributing to a vision for education for a better-functioning health system for regional growth and development and for developing Māori land so that it can contribute to the regional economy to ensure that the very best of who we are as a nation as a country and how we represent ourselves in the export market highlights the very best of our identity as a people—our culture that we have here in New Zealand—so that New Zealand can continue to be seen as a country that punches well above its weight.