Parmar ParmjeetDr PARMJEET PARMAR (National): Thank you Mr Chair for this opportunity to take this call on Part 2 of this bill. This Part 2 is about consequential amendments to other enactments and these are clauses 8 and 9. If we look at these clauses 8 and 9 they sound really simple because clause 8 is Education Council Rules 2016 renamed" and states "From the commandment of this section (a) the Education Council Rules 2016 are [going to be] called the Teaching Council Rules 2016;" and there is another subclause which is clause 8(b). Clause 9 again sounds really simple. This is just about changing the name from the Education Council to the Teaching Council throughout. But it is not that simple.The most important thing is the Education Council submission. Yes I would like to refer again to the Education Council submission in this contribution as well because that is the actual body that this legislation is about. This legislation will change the Education Council's name and composition. So where we are talking about the consequential changes that is to change the "Education Council" name everywhere to "Teaching Council" after the commencement of this section. But when I looked through the Education Council's submission there is no mention of a name change at all. They have different headings. Under different headings they have talked about different issues that they have raised but there is no focus on the Education Council to be called the Teaching Council. That means the consequential amendments are just a waste of everybody's effort because this comes down to just a name-change exercise in this whole legislation. If I just go through the summary of the Education Council's recommendations on the bill they talk about introducing a provision that requires members to receive training. They talk about specifying a process for the removal of elected members to ensure consistency between members who are appointed and members who are elected. Then they talk about specifying a process for filling extraordinary vacancies on the council. Then they talk about the Education Council's support of the bill's clause for staggered turnover of appointed members. Then they talk about specifying the criteria for who may nominate and who may second candidate a for election to the council to provide certainty that only the teaching profession will nominate and second candidates and adding an express power for the Teaching Council to make rules for the conduct of elections and the establishment of electoral rolls and other things related to that. All they say about the name change is that they have noted the cost.During the select committee process we did ask them about the cost and when we talk about the consequential amendments it's not just about typing the name in the legislation and changing the name from "Education Council" to "Teaching Council". There will be other consequential costs because of this amendment and it's important that we highlight those costs because this is not a cheap bill. This is just a name-change exercise. It is not a cheap bill because this will lead to a lot of other costs. The cost breakdown that was provided by the Education Council on the committee's request—they did a really good job with that request.The communications cost—that includes logo and brand elements printed resources website and social media platform updates. The cost for that is $30960. Administration cost—that will include the letterhead business cards signage building and directory update; that will cost $29150. Procurement cost—that will include contract and lease name changes and legal fees; that is going to cost $14200. Finance costs include registration of new company names logo and payroll changes; that will cost $3830. I'm listing these costs because it's important for everyone to see the cost of these amendments. The IT cost includes certificates domain name software and email signatures; that is going to cost $77500. Human resources costs include operation manuals—$3120. These things are not cheap. And then it does not finish there. Registration costs include practising cards and templates—that's $52640. Professional responsibility costs include updates templates and forms—that will be $1600. And then professional services costs include promotional events which they use—$820. Then of course they need some other funds for other expenses which are put down at around $6000.When I add up all these figures—the added figures were provided to us—it comes close to $220000. So these amendments are actually going to lead to a waste of money of $220000 and I urge the Minister to explain to us why this kind of cost is required."