Hayes Jo; Carter DavidJOANNE HAYES (National): I feel privileged that I get a second day in the House 5 more minutes to speak about the amazing Budget that the Hon Steven Joyce announced during the Budget presentation a couple of weeks ago. I want to focus my 5 minutes on the education sector and the reason that I want to focus my kōrero on that is that I recently went to Haeata Community Campus which is one of the new schools opened recently by the Prime Minister and the former Minister of Education.I went to speak to about 150 young people. They were aged between 15 and 18 years old. The reason that I went to speak there was that at the opening the chair of the board challenged the MPs in the room to come and talk to the students about politics and about the things that matter most to them when it comes to politics. So I went to speak to this group of young people who came together and yes it was a bit of a mission to start with. I had 15- to 18-year-olds all with their own ideas about why I was there whether they were going to listen what it was I had to offer to them and whether I was going to be boring. I can tell you that I left that room with no doubt that I was not a boring speaker because I talked to them about the things that mattered most to them and I talked to them about the things that would help them to get to where they want to be in their lives. I talked to them about the power of education and my journey through the education system and I said to them that if there is one thing one message that they will take home with them that day it is that education will set them free.When I look at the Budget that was announced recently and what it has to do with the education sector I see more and more funding going into that sector—actually $1.1 billion of new operating funding is going into the education sector over the next 4 years. So when I go back to talk to those young people I can say that we are equipping their school and all the other schools in Christchurch and throughout the country with the funding to resource them to be able to achieve the things that they want to do within their education lifetimes. It was about making sure that they understood that education would set them free and not to think about leaving school early—to get everything that the education system can give to them in the time that they have left.The Budget also announced additional capital funding for schools—$392.4 million—and this additional capital is actually to help schools grow their infrastructure. Haeata school actually starts from year 1 which is new entrants and goes right through to form 7 or year 13 but next door to it there is an early childhood education centre. This group of early childhood educators never missed out on the Budget either. They have got an additional $386 million worth of operating funding which will go into the early childhood education providers to help them with the operation of their organisations which is key because it is at those early learning centres that the education of our babies our pēpēs actually begins and we start to grow them.You can see their process especially in the Christchurch East area where you see the progress from early childhood education close to Haeata school and then across to Haeata right through to when they leave to go to university or head off and do some trade qualifications. That is about a 1.3 percent of operational funding in 2018. Primary and secondary schools will be getting about $458.9 million of additional operating funding over the next 4 years so when I am able to talk with those students again we will be able to sit down and talk about how they see working with their teachers on how operational funding will actually be able to help them.When I look at this school—because it is a combination it has got a lot of Māori and Pacific Island students there so therefore we started looking at the types of languages that are being taught there. One of them is Te Reo Māori the curriculum resources of which are going to receive $7.6 million of new investment in schools throughout New Zealand to help with the learning of the Māori language—Mr SPEAKER: The member's time has expired.