Lee DeniseDENISE LEE (National—Maungakiekie): Thank you Madam Chair. That was a very fantastic passionate speech by the Hon Nikki Kaye and I too stand in support of her Supplementary Order Paper. Communities of online learning (COOLs) which here in Part 2 tonight face the axe are a topic and an industry a sector that deserve support and at the moment they feel and experience none of that support whatsoever.The National Party established communities of online learning to harness what is rapidly evolving digital technologies. We know we live in the digital era and we want to provide more learning options for young people emphasis on options. We want choices and options for young people and so do of course these communities of online learning and the different providers that have arisen from this need that we have amongst our students our communities and society. So given that reality at the very least—the very least—the Minister of Education could have provided some certainty for these COOLs or as we know them communities of online learning because COOLs are simply another option for parents. No one's saying they are the option; they're just another option for parents. We stand for on this side of the House choice and options for parents and for families because they don't come in a one-size-fits-all arrangement and they never have and they never will.So what are we doing and what are we facing here with the axe on COOLs as we know it? We're waiting for an alternative arrangement; well there aren't any. A total lack of an alternative model is absolutely unbelievable when we're going through so much of a seismic shift in education in this country. This just seems to be one area that's just left off to the side and they're going to have to flail and find their own way it appears as the passage of this bill will likely take place tonight.So what we know and understand from the repeal of the COOLs legislation is that it was done—well this is the explanation from the Government—to allow time for proper consultation. The other reason that we're told it was done to develop policy in light of education reviews. Well allowing time for proper consultation—where is it? Can someone answer for us? Where is the proper consultation and the certainty and the next step for COOLs? There's nothing. If anyone on the other side of the Chamber would like to speak up now or forever hold their peace let us know. What is the option for the online learning community as we know it tonight? Silence—right.So then if you look at developing policy in light of education reviews don't hold your breath—don't hold your breath. What do we know that's going on in the education sector for reviews at the moment? Well how about the Tomorrow's Schools review scrapping national standards cancelling charter schools rushing into the questioning of the entire NCEA system failing to attempt banning music and dance teachers from calling themselves teachers. All of this stuff—a heavy-handed ideology-driven obsessive approach by this Government and meanwhile you've got communities of online learning trying to find their way.They had a pathway it was under our Government and this legislation here tonight is going to stop them short once again. They are existing for students who are quite frankly not engaging and have diverse learning needs. They have a reasonable request and the request is that someone talk to them because they didn't for this legislation; that they just want a regulatory framework to be clarified for them. Does that not sound reasonable? It should. It should for them and it should for New Zealanders because it sure sounds reasonable to us on this side of the House. Unfortunately we can't hold our breath for that because we can't see—and even the Minister tonight admitted that work needs to be done in this space. Where is the work? We'd like to know.I do hope that you'll support the Hon Nikki Kaye's amendment which will give just a little bit of clarity that's so sorely lacking.