Belich CamillaCAMILLA BELICH (Labour): Thank you very much for the call Madam Speaker. I didn't think I was going to get an opportunity such was the passion of the chair of the Education and Workforce Committee Katie Nimon on matters relating somewhat adjunctly tangentially to the subject matter of this bill.But this is a good bill and I was very pleased to be on the select committee when we considered this bill and I want to acknowledge—Hon Member: Oh were you the chair then?CAMILLA BELICH: Yeah I was actually the chair then and I just want to acknowledge the Minister at the time Jan Tinetti who brought this bill to the House and also acknowledge the current Minister who was actually on the committee when we considered it as well. So it's a very interesting bill.One of the things that I have learnt being in Parliament is that this particular bill is an omnibus bill. It does lots of things that might be considered minor to some people but as members have elucidated in their speeches some are very significant things to particular groups including the 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund. So there are some very important things in here.I won't go as other members have through every aspect of this bill but two aspects that I wanted to highlight are firstly the regulatory changes in relation to early childhood education. It is really important to have good solid safety regulations in early childhood education—perhaps one of the most important areas that we regulate in New Zealand. In education some of the most important regulations are in that early childhood space. The reason that those are so important is because they help to keep some of the most vulnerable people in our society safe. When we take our children to childcare centres as many in this House have done in the past do currently do or will do in the future we need to be absolutely certain that all of the checks and balances are in place to ensure the safety of those children.It's been heartening to see the change of tone from members opposite in relation to these regulatory matters. We have heard a lot of criticism about regulations in early childhood education recently from members of the coalition Government. I would just like to emphasise at this point that this shows how important regulations are. Of course people should go through a police check when they are looking after your children even if it's for a short period of time in a mall or a gym or other such location. So it just shows you that when we talk about regulations some of them can be incredibly important.I want to commend the former Minister Jan Tinetti for bringing this bill to the House. I want to commend the committee for considering it as we did very carefully. We looked at a lot of the definition words very carefully we heard from representatives from the 28th Māori Battalion we made sure that we took this bill—although it's not a bill that's going to revolutionarily change the country we took it really seriously and we did I feel bring back a few changes. But also having gone through that scrutiny process which is so important we were assured that this bill does what it says on the tin.So the only thing I just wanted to lastly talk about which hasn't been mentioned is that this is a very unusual bill in that it has a picture of an emblem as part of the bill which is 28th Māori Battalion and a picture of that in Schedule 1. I just want to draw the House's attention to that because it is quite unusual to see a pictorial element of a particular piece of legislation in the bill and very beautiful and full of history. So I just want to acknowledge all those as other people in the House have who served in the Māori Battalion and those who continue to focus on the Māori Battalion's legacy as this bill does. I commend it to the House.