Lotu-Iiga SamHon Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA (National—Maungakiekie): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker the Hon Trevor Mallard. I am going to take a short call on this bill. We have heard a lot of debate tonight around semantics around words around the purpose of education. For me the education system is about our kids those who are in the learning institution. It should be centred on their well-being their learning and their development. It should not be centred on semantics code of conduct ethics and the like.It is about trust and integrity and that is what our teaching profession actually stands for. I would say a substantial majority of those teachers who are out there live up to those expectations that the New Zealand public has of them to deliver teaching services day in and day out. This bill does not do that. The two things this bill sets out to do is to turn back the clock on the name around the Education Council of Aotearoa New Zealand and it also wants to revert to a code of ethics versus a code of conduct.Can I just talk firstly on that first change around the change of name? It is the Education Council of Aotearoa New Zealand because it is about the bicultural nature of the system. But it is also about education not just teachers. Education incorporates all those who contribute to the system—just as there is a medical association that is not the doctors' association; just as there are professional bodies that do not focus on just one part of a system. So I think it is appropriately named now and I do not think we need to revert back to the previous name which this bill is advocating for.In terms of codes of ethics and codes of conduct well we have been down the code of ethics route and it has proved to come up short. But what we want to and what we can expect from our teachers is that they behave—we have talked about behaviour tonight—that their conduct that the ethics that we expect of them as parents and as New Zealanders are second to none because as one speaker has already said apart from parenting I think teaching is one of the most important roles in our society. That is why we need stringent codes of conduct. That is why we need high standards in how they behave not just to each other but to the kids whom they are teaching on a day-to-day basis. So it is important to get that code of conduct right and that is why it is out for consultation right now. I think we are going to get a good level of feedback not just from teachers but from all those in the teaching profession—it is a profession. Those standards are high and we expect the feedback to reflect the views of the whole profession not just teachers.I am not going to get into union bashing or saying who listens to whom. I think we should listen to anyone and everyone in our society who has an opinion to offer about how the education system should run.When you look at codes of conduct in other professions we know that they are in place in the nursing profession they are in place in real estate and there are various other codes that deal with midwives police—and there is nothing wrong with having a code of conduct in the education space. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. We can argue here black and blue about whether it should be a code of ethics or code of conduct. For me it is about having high expectations around their behaviour and around their integrity in terms of the education profession. So it is there in other professions and I think it should also be here in New Zealand.We also know that there is a code of conduct in education systems that we look to very similar systems like in Australia the UK and Canada for example. So why can we not have that here? I put it to you. I think we are heading in the right direction in terms of the education reforms that the Hon Hekia Parata has put in place and I think this bill is a step backwards. That is why certainly I will not support this bill.