Hudson BrettBRETT HUDSON (National): Look I intend to talk about a Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) for a local issue Minister not regional—all politics is local—and I want to talk about the Minister of Education's prior contribution not the most immediate but the one before that. But before I get to that I can't help but comment on something that Ms Swarbrick just said in her contribution where she said she was gutted sought to chastise members on this side of the House for not sharing SOPs prior to the committee stage. Well not only is it completely common but quite frankly I would argue it's the norm for the Government which she and her colleagues prop up to pass in SOPs just hours before the debate begins. So she might want to take a wee look in the mirror and have a chat to her colleagues on that side of the Chamber before worrying too much about what Opposition members do with their proposed amendments to bills.But the bill as a whole fundamentally holds a window up to the ideologies of the Government and the parties with their socialist leanings that comprise it. Fundamentally this Government is of a view that any problem real or perceived can only be resolved with more Government and that means more centralised control and centralised planning. They don't tend to think too much about the fact that nowhere else in the world has centralised planning ever worked but that's their fundamental ideology and what they do. It reminds me of the wisdom of Winston Churchill who remarked that the inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings and the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. That is precisely what this so-called transformation—and it's big but it's exactly what this so-called transformation will achieve.The Minister has said that there are some polytechs that aren't doing so well. No one is arguing that that is not the case. But his solution instead of actually fixing the problem will see those issues and those miseries spread across the entire country to include those institutions that do quite well or very well through top-down centralised planning. It is fundamentally a solution for a Government that only has a hammer in the tool box and sees every problem as a nail that needs beating. The Minister strongly alluded to this himself when he talked about the balance sheets or the operating expenditure of polytechs and going into deficit.What he's sought to do to address that is take industry training off those very organisations who are so close to the private sector organisations that the training is there to deliver for and benefit and place it into the polytechs. Well quite frankly I just call that out as deliberately switching some money around to try to prop up organisations that should be looking themselves to better structure their services their courses to meet the needs of their student bodies or potential student bodies employers and New Zealand. He is simply shifting something that's working well mostly somewhere else to prop up some polytechs in this case elsewhere. It's not going to add anything. It's not going to improve anything. It's going to pretend that he's solving a problem. It won't do that.But I'd like to turn now to the actual SOP SOP 444 which reflects and responds to the failure that is inherent in a central planning centralised control environment where everything is decided upon high and is completely divorced from the local facts and situation not in a region necessarily but right down at a local level. I want to speak about Whitireia. Now Whitireia themselves did not submit on the bill to my knowledge but the Tertiary Education Union did and they expressed in their submission the very problem that this bill brings about which is the divorcing of the planning from the needs on the ground. They raised several points worrying that the New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology (NZIST) would fail to be able to understand the local needs of the students the potential students and in fact even the teaching body as well.So what I'm seeking to do and seeking to get support from this House to achieve is to divorce or remove the assets of Whitireia from the centralised control under NZIST that this bill puts in place. By retaining that control locally—[Time expired]