10. Question No. 10—Building and ConstructionARENA WILLIAMS (Labour—Manurewa) (remote) to the Minister for Building and ConstructionQuestion No. 10—Building and Construction10. ARENA WILLIAMS (Labour—Manurewa) (remote) to the Minister for Building and Construction: What recent reports has she seen regarding education and employment opportunities in the building and construction sector?Hon POTO WILLIAMS (Minister for Building and Construction) (remote): I have seen a report that shows employment and education opportunities in the construction sector are on the rise outperforming targets set by the Construction Skills Action Plan in 2018. This is a result of a strong role the sector is playing to support COVID-19 recovery enabled by this Government's significant investment in infrastructure and housing. Since we launched the Construction Skills Action Plan over 30000 people have been supported into construction-related education or employment opportunities. I'm pleased to report that this milestone has exceeded the action plan's target by more than sevenfold. This Government will continue to invest in our construction sector to ensure we have the skills capacity and capabilities we need to build back better from COVID-19. Arena Williams: Thank you Mr Speaker. What initiatives has the Government put in place to help deliver the Construction Skills Action Plan? Hon POTO WILLIAMS: Much of the success of the Construction Skills Action Plan is the result of a coordinated effort between Government departments and sector employers to play our part in growing talent in the sector. We have put in place a number of initiatives to deliver on the action plan such as Mana in Mahi—thank you Minister Sepuloni—which as of October last year has supported 3500 young people into education and employment opportunities within the sector. It's also included the leveraging of the Government's procurement programme—thank you Minister Nash—to ensure the Government agencies continue [Audio missing] development and training when evaluating tenders. These are just a few of the initiatives we have put in place to progress the action plan and to deliver—Hon Member: Can I mute that?Hon POTO WILLIAMS: —a more resilient construction sector.Arena Williams: Supplementary.SPEAKER: Order! Order! No no the member doesn't have the call. I'm going to make two points now. One is that members have been briefed as part of their training that there is sometimes a delay in getting to a member remotely. I'm not going to put up with criticism of the staff who are involved in that when there is such a delay and/or comments as we did have. The second point I'll make is that patsy questions and answers have a limit and the last answer went beyond that limit. And therefore I'm now going to call Hon Gerry Brownlee for the next question.Chris Bishop: Point of order.SPEAKER: Well is the member going to disagree with the ruling I've just made? Because I'm prepared to reverse it.Chris Bishop: No I just wanted to say Mr Speaker that certainly no one from the Opposition benches was having a go at the staff running the system at all. I want to make that very clear; they're doing a great job.SPEAKER: Well both the member and the member sitting next to him made loud noises during the delay to the supplementary question.