Swarbrick ChlöeCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green): E Te Māngai tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. I would like to congratulate first and foremost Jenny Marcroft for having this bill drawn. As the Hon Paul Goldsmith has noted the original drawer-upper" was the Associate Minister of Education the Hon Tracey Martin. As has been noted by a number of speakers who have spoken before me on this piece of legislation there are a lot of education bills currently going before the House. I think what that speaks to is the priority that this Government places on education which I personally think and the Green Party thinks is awesome.This bill essentially does what it says on the box: it protects teacher title. To echo the sentiments of one Jo Luxton my colleague in the Labour Party this is about the status of the profession. How is it that you know a doctor can call themselves a doctor and expect nobody else to do so or that a lawyer can call themselves a lawyer and expect nobody else to do so? It's because they have progressed through the requisite training in order to don that title. That title holds status and it holds immense value. The premise of this bill is to ensure that that value is protected for our teachers who actually go through quite a bit of training in order to stand before their classrooms and do teaching.I'd like to touch on as well what the Hon Paul Goldsmith said around this being a basic title—the title of teachers. I think that's a little bit disappointing to hear from Paul Goldsmith. This is not a basic title. Here we are talking about the people who are educating the next generation. To reiterate what I've just said previously this is about ensuring that we see the value as a Government as a Parliament and as a House of Representatives in the work that these teachers do.To draw some kind of parallel I think it would be incredibly interesting to see the response of certain politicians in this House should we suggest that it would be all right for average members of the public to be calling themselves "the Honourable"—you know to draw this parallel out about how we hold titles in this House and those titles we consider to be somewhat important. They're official titles that we can use in kōrero in dialogue with each other—and we're expected to use them because they are of course formal titles: they hold value they demonstrate the mahi that people have put in to holding those titles.It's also been noted that this is something that is supposedly ideologically driven—it's about charter schools. And it is actually indeed premised on charter schools and what the previous Government did with those charter schools in enabling people who did not hold the qualifications of teachers to stand before our kids and teach them.Matt King: And they get results.CHLÖE SWARBRICK: No; no they do not. It is not universal I would add Matt King. This is absolutely premised and was introduced with those in mind.This is all part of a massive work programme I would note that I am incredibly honoured to be working on with the Associate Minister of Education Tracey Martin who was the original "drawer-upper" of this bill and the Minister of Education Chris Hipkins—"drawer-upper" to use the words of one Hon Paul Goldsmith.So in summation this is a small but significant step towards ensuring that we as a Government as a Parliament and as a House of Representatives move toward recognising the value that teachers generate in our society and the work that they have put in to holding that kind of position. So I look forward to hearing from the general public on this bill at the select committee stage and would like to say that my views diverge from one Tim Macindoe. I do think that it is really crucial that we are having these conversations with the general public. It is important that our workload is high because that is what we in this House are paid to do. I commend this bill to the House and the Green Party will be voting for it through to select committee."