Young Jonathan: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeYoung Jonathan: General Debate[Sitting date: 03 December 2014. Volume:702;Page:1075. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JONATHAN YOUNG (National—New Plymouth):Right now I feel the trepidation that many Opposition members feel having to speak after the Hon Tim Groser one of the smartest men in New Zealand. What a great Minister of Trade he is. [Interruption] I knew you would love that. I knew you would love that. He is doing a great job for New Zealand.I am sure that Andrew Little got his idea about the future of work from Taranaki because there is great organisation there that I want to send a shout-out to called Taranaki Futures. That is an organisation that I helped kick off with a great number of very innovative hard-working collaborative people who want to see the people of Taranaki—the young people in particular—having a great future in employment. This organisation has been working hard for nearly 2 years now to understand what the economic needs in the future are going to be and how that is going to define the workforce.We work hard to ensure that our young people in high school are connecting with employers and industry to prepare for that future. This is nothing new; we have been doing it for 2 years. I can say that last Sunday about 17 young high school students who in this last year have built a bach sold that bach by auction. They had this bach built consented and planned. They went through all the work of learning how to build how to measure how to quantify and how to do all of these great trade skills. This bach went up for sale on Sunday afternoon. This one-bedroom bach about 60 square metres sold in New Plymouth.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Whereabouts?JONATHAN YOUNG: Where do you think? It sold for $80000. Congratulations to those young people. Congratulations to Taranaki Futures to those high school students to their teachers and to the polytech who all worked together. I heard from one of the principals who was there that day that every single one of their students has already secured an apprenticeship. Is that not great news? Is the future of work not something that this Government has been working on for a long time? We have seen it come to pass.Here we have two full pages in the Taranaki Daily News showing this great work. You will see on this page all the adverts of all the businesses that collaborated with this. What the Opposition is talking about what it thinks is a brand new idea is nothing such. It is something that the innovative hard-working collaborating people of Taranaki whom I have been involved with have been doing for a long long time already.I guess that is one of the things that Andrew Little learnt on the campaign trail. He learnt what was working because he saw our electorate. He saw the work of the local National MP his relationship with the workforce there what it was producing and every single one of those young people.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Come along on Monday night.JONATHAN YOUNG: Guess what is going to happen next year Mr Peters? Next year there are going to be two baches. There is going to be one built in South Taranaki by a group of young women—Tracey Martin: Yay!JONATHAN YOUNG: —and another one built by a group of young men. It is going to be fascinating to see just exactly which one comes out looking the best. What do you think Ms Martin? What do you think?Whichever it is going to be what we are going to see is outstanding young people in Taranaki doing a brilliant job getting out of their high schools and into the workplace and being able to step into apprenticeships straight away. We did this because what we discovered was that around about 70 percent of students who leave high school actually do not go to university. So what do we do for them? What we do for them is we come and talk to them earlier on to discover what sorts of things they have a passion for. When we did that we discovered that these young people had a fantastic passion to build something to learn something to apply knowledge and to come out with skills that are going to build this economy and make this nation great. Thank you.