Martin TraceyHon TRACEY MARTIN (Minister for Children): Kia ora Mr Speaker. Can I start my contribution by just acknowledging the Toastmasters of Warkworth and the great debate that took place on Friday last week. I'm not sure what the local member Hon Mark Mitchell was talking about. I was there. My husband was in the team. The moot was Should New Zealand invade Australia?" The police team were in the negative and they resoundingly won the evening. I apologise to my husband now but they showed more wit they showed more stamina and they had shiny medals which I think actually swayed the women in the audience which was their rebuttal.The other thing that the police informed me of that evening was the fact that the Warkworth police station is going to go 24/7—24/7—in the next so many months. And that is because of the increased police numbers referred to by the Minister of Police just earlier this evening. They were thrilled to know—and so were the people of that community—that they are now going to have police officers on the beat 24/7 ready for them and available for them.Kieran McAnulty: When was the last time?Hon TRACEY MARTIN: I don't know when the last time was Mr McAnulty but I know that it wasn't the reality over the last decade. I'm fairly confident about that.Can I move on to another topic? Just quickly though I am very interested in the conversation coming from the Opposition benches that was raised by the Leader—sorry just a bit quick there—the Deputy Leader of the National Party and that was around a series of dates that the member put forward: dates around being let into the country dates around residency dates around crimes being committed dates around people being arrested. All of those dates were in the period of time that she was in Government. All of those dates—all of the dates—that have been articulated by the Opposition were during the period of time that they were in power. So it's an interesting argument that they're running but let's hope they continue to run it.On the weekend the Prime Minister announced $217 million over the next four years for the first tranche of 600 learning support coordinators to be inside our schools. This was not a fly-by-night political announcement; this was a piece of work that Catherine Delahunty and Chris Hipkins and I started back in 2016—and if the Hon Judith Collins was here I would acknowledge her also. This piece of work came out of the dyslexia dyspraxia and children on the autism spectrum inquiry at the Education and Science Committee in that year. There was a majority report that came into this House but the Government of the day decided that no more money would be put inside this sector—no more money. Any recommendation that came from the majority of the select committee had to have a zero price tag. This Government and the members of it—Minister Hipkins myself and as I say Catherine Delahunty who we unfortunately no longer have in this Parliament—put in 26 further recommendations that we made sure we started to work on the moment we sat in the seat—the moment we had the opportunity to move forward.This however is only step two of a five-step process. The first step was to actually change the delivery model. The system for supporting our young people with complex and even moderate learning needs is completely broken. There is no point continuing to pump money into it. Even though we knew the need was so neat we placed funding in as immediately as we could during the Christmas period and then began work on changing the delivery model. The delivery model has been trialled for the past year and is currently being rolled out across New Zealand and will be across New Zealand by the end of 2019. The learning support coordinators now have a financial commitment for the first tranche and they will be in place in 2020.The next thing we are working on is screening tools: to screen at school entry and to screen at seven years old for dyslexia dyspraxia dyscalculics and those on the moderate end of the autism spectrum because we have no data to tell us the need. So we're also developing a way to essentially collect that data. We can then use that data to create workforce planning so that we do not run into the shortage that we have run into after a decade of neglect.I am thrilled that we were able to make that announcement on the weekend but it is only a part of a longer piece of work and I will commit to making sure that the further five steps are in place before we get to 2020. Kia ora."