SpeechDENISE LEE (National—Maungakiekie): Thank you Madam Chair. I appreciate taking this call on the Estimates hearing on this year's Budget. The Government's incompetent handling of the Budget documents before they were released is exactly the same way that they are handling our economy our health and our education system. It was botched—a botched Budget. The Government is slowing the economy down and this we know. They've inherited growth of 4 percent but we're down to about 2 percent now. They've installed bad policies around oil and gas bans foreign investment restrictions and labour law changes. These are the policies that they were certain about and on everything else that they're uncertain about we've got working groups—260-plus working groups. They're failing to deliver on their promises. That's what we've got from this Government: KiwiBuild $10 cheaper doctors visits—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson): If the member could come to the education and workforce review.DENISE LEE: —and they said no new taxes; we're up to nine already. That's right: we're up to nine already and we've got broken promises on education.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson): Education and workforce review.DENISE LEE: And those broken promises on education: we've got 57 broken promises on education that we've clocked so far and 37 that have been partially delivered. Let me get on to that. On the broken side of education promises that we've talked about in the Estimates hearing at select committee: ensuring that all students have access to mobile digital devices—how's that going? That's a fail. How about extra funding for early childhood educators that employ 100 percent qualified and registered teachers? That's a fail. That's not happening.How about giving industry training organisations (ITOs) a greater role in career advice and guidance to school leavers? Well that's not happening either. But here's the irony with that: instead of giving ITOs this greater presence in schools the Government then turns around and completely turns everything upside down for them. And do they want that? No they don't. Just talk to the likes of polytechnics Southern Industry of Technology and ITOs—they do not want the Government's mothership mega-polytechnic scheme.How about the partially delivered promises? Well let's go of course because we all know about this and we talked about it in select committee: scrapping school donations. It's not at all equitable—the way that the Government's delivering their broken promise. In fact it's only going to low-decile schools. Now in my electorate we've got one school—one State school only—that is over decile 8. How do you think they feel about being the only school in my entire electorate that does not get the same treatment as every other school. In that school do you think that everyone in that school is well off and can afford school donations? No they can't. It's a flawed system and a broken promise and the Government should be ashamed.We also have—along with that school donation—a really poorly thought through delivery around uncertainty and confusion for the likes of school camps. We do not know where this is all going to end up. There are many aspects to this policy that are confusing to regular Kiwi parents in New Zealand and I'm going to pay particularly close attention to that being someone on the board of Sir Peter Blake Marine Education and Recreation Centre where hundreds and thousands of children have gone through and have had the most amazing camp experience that delivers real benefit to their schooling. Let's see the clarity on that. We don't have it—another botched delivery.Auckland property: again in my electorate I have three schools that are crying out for certainty around what's happening with property. All they've had is a trifecta of botched communication between the Minister's office the Ministry of Education (MOE) and them as schools. They can't get certainty. They've been told to apply for special funds and MOE says you need to go and apply for special funds. The Minister's office said it too. No one even told the schools what the special funds are. For over a year I have been trying to communicate to the Minister's office and MOE to get certainty for schools going through massive roll growth and upheaval and nothing is coming through to them or to me around certainty for their future and for their growth. For those on the other side of the House that said it's all about the growth: only 24000 of the 100000 additional places in schooling are funded. Only a quarter of the Government's 10-year programme is funded. It's not about assessment; it's about building.