Baillie ChrisCHRIS BAILLIE (ACT): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's hard to follow a comedy act that hasn't understood the part of his whole speech—of his whole speech forgets about all of the other parts that is what we have an issue with.I rise on behalf of ACT to speak to the Education and Training Amendment Bill and I speak as a teacher of 22 years' experience and earlier on it was so important—experience was so important. I have taught in all areas of socio-economic communities and I may be beginning to realise that experience only counts if you agree with the Labour Party. This bill and its many amendments have been well traversed over the last few months even with the shortened consultations stage and they've been explained really well again today. The many submitters have made it clear how they feel about the particular changes that affect them and as has become quite typical with the Government the feedback will be ignored and the bill will be pushed through with all in its entirety.The bill has some good bits no doubt about that which if they were taken by themselves ACT would support. We live in a democracy and the people really did speak with their disapproval of some of the other bits and they just can't be ignored. They just can't be ignored. The feedback from teachers and principals that I've received is that they don't want many of these changes; some they do many they don't especially the changes to school board appointments. We must trust our boards our principals and our teachers. They actually know more than politicians about a lot of things and funnily enough quite a bit more about education. It's a harsh reality for quite a few to take and it was great to hear our Minister this morning talk about how she trusts principals and teachers. It seems she trusts them except when it comes to dealing with schools and education.There are so many issues in education in New Zealand at the moment with tumbling literacy and numeracy rates we've got appalling truancy we've got unprecedented violence in our schools and here we are introducing a bill that changes the make up for school board appointments not because there's a problem but because of this Government's ideological agenda—it's just nuts.The Minister's inability this morning to answer basic questions relating to this provision shows just what a nonsense this is. The changes to the wānanga in the rushed and unsatisfactory way it's been dealt with have been explained well by my National colleagues so I won't go into that. To include this important area with the rest of the tinkering that's going on in this bill is really quite devious and I'm sure our guests in the gallery can actually see through it. The issues that ACT had have largely been satisfied and we are happy to support those parts of the bill. We don't entirely agree with everything but we're happy to support. Of all the political parties here ACT have taken the education of young Māori the most seriously. Partnership schools have worked for the diversity of learning and the most vulnerable. Their success was undeniably proven and the kids that this Government purports to care for they attended school and they succeeded but in an act of political spite Labour got rid of them.I'll never understand the constant desire for division but I wish the wānanga well in their continued development and education of young people. There are things we like in this bill; there are things that we think are OK but because of what I mentioned earlier ACT cannot support this bill. Thank you.