Kaye NikkiHon NIKKI KAYE (National—Auckland Central): Madam Deputy Speaker—what a pleasure it is to say those words. Can I just personally acknowledge you. I am torn. You have been an extraordinary Minister and member of Parliament; to see you in the Chair though is a great day for this Parliament. I know you will be fabulous.Look it is a time where we take stock and we take a moment to reflect. We've had a general election and obviously the parties across the House have been able to form a Government. But the message that I would give to these parties—because people are coming up to me in my electorate in the airport—is that you will be judged by that final statement in the Prime Minister's Speech from the Throne. It is about the people. It is about the impact that your decisions have on the people of New Zealand and the detail matters. And the message that I am getting from constituents from business people from people in the community sector is that this is a Government that is in a rush that hasn't thought through the detail and that is trying to dismantle a whole lot of things without reflecting on what may be some good things.The first is where the Government has campaigned on change. I would just ask them to reflect on a couple of areas. We know that what matters in terms of young people getting a job is for the half a million small-business people in New Zealand any costs that they have will literally determine whether they can employ a young person. So why would this Government early on in its tenure rush ahead with things like the fuel tax and dramatically increasing the minimum wage? We increased the minimum wage. Every year that we were in office we were increasing the minimum wage but if you do it so dramatically—if the Government does that—then young people don't get jobs and that means that you are countering what your key objectives are. The costs that businesses—the reason that businesses are so worried and confidence is dropping is because of all the costs that are being proposed whether it's a fuel tax whether it's the minimum wage whether it's the new labour laws or whether it's the uncertainty around immigration. That means that young people may be hurt as a result of that. Please think through the detail and understand that it does and can hurt young people.In the area of social investment in the area of education what we know again is that we all agree—on this side of the House we support and in fact a Cabinet decision happened to move to a system of progression. But every parent in New Zealand has a right to know how their child is doing. The first thing that the new Minister of Education said was We're scrapping national standards." I have been inundated by parents across New Zealand who have said "Fine but what are we replacing it with?" There is huge uncertainty. Please work with us to ensure that we have—look we support national standards but please work with us to ensure that we guarantee every parent has that right to know how their child is doing. It is not OK to send schools and families into complete chaos by saying you're scrapping national standards without the detail of a system of progression.In the area of partnership schools again we are seeing a Government that is in a huge rush is inexperienced and unfortunately in my view—and I am a little bit concerned about this—is showing to be deeply partisan. When it comes to partnership schools again we got a huge amount of conversation from the Opposition about how much they cared about disadvantaged children. Well many of these children—many of these children—have not achieved in other areas of our education system. They deserve to have a chance to be able to do well to be able to get an education and to go into the future and have a great job. And what have we had from the current Government? Complete and utter chaos—complete confusion.Initially the Minister said—and we heard this through the campaign—we had Willie Jackson we had Kelvin Davis and we had Chris Hipkins all saying completely different things. We had a policy that potentially the legislation would be repealed. Then we heard that they would be negotiated on a case by case basis. Then—and I couldn't believe it—I literally looked on my phone and Chris Hipkins had said to a journalist that four of those schools would be gone by 2019.Lo and behold thank goodness he has reversed that position and now we have a review under way until today. Suddenly we now have in the motion a piece of legislation that would wipe out one school. It is complete chaos. It is completely partisan. It is not about disadvantaged children. Please work with us. Work with those schools. We accept that you want to get rid of the partnership school model. We accept that you are going to convert them into something else. But they deserve to know what exactly are the criteria that they are going to be held to. They deserve to know who is doing this review. They deserve to know as does the taxpayer what the costs of converting some of these partnership schools are. These are basic things and this is the basic way to treat people and these families and these kids deserve that.We've just heard from Carmel Sepuloni in terms of the area of welfare and we've heard about social investment. She made some comments regarding again the decile system. I know that the Minister has probably only had a briefing to the incoming Minister and very few papers. But her statement regarding our risk index system was wrong. We unashamedly wanted to scrap the decile system because it was discriminatory and everybody that I meet agrees with that. The whole purpose of the risk index was to provide something that was anonymous and that wouldn't be discriminatory. But again as we heard from the Leader of the Opposition today one of the greatest tool kits in one of the greatest machines to be built to actually help people those people who have family violence criminal justice notifications or who are in receipt of a benefit and to help those children who have been in State care—this Government has already set about to dismantle it. I would ask the Government to reflect to take a breather and to realise it will be judged on these next few months. How about you recognise that you spent a number of years in Opposition and while you do not agree with everything that we did if you do the slash and burn and get rid of a whole lot of things then people will be hurt and people will remember.The detail matters. Trying to scrap national standards without a system to replace it and trying to say that partnership schools will be gone maybe into something else without telling those parents whether their kids are turning up to school next year matters. The detail matters. So whether it is education or social areas or that business is deciding whether to employ someone but is hearing about a fuel tax and is hearing that the minimum wage is going up for all of these people their circumstances matter. In the words of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the heart of this Government is supposed to be people. If the members opposite care about those people then they will not be in a rush. They will not be as partisan and they will think through the detail. He tangata he tangata he tangata."