Lee DeniseDENISE LEE (National—Maungakiekie): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. It has been as others have pointed out a very busy day for education in the House today. This is the second bill that we've been fortunate enough to debate tonight and I'm glad to see that it is tackling an issue that the people of New Zealand see as one of the major issues facing our nation. The restrictions on the word teacher" imposed by this bill are completely unnecessary regardless of any way you want to spin it. Let's cut to the chase: this is a thinly veiled attack on charter schools. Newsflash over there: the Government is scrapping charter schools.This is in fact a great representation on how the current Government thinks about charter schools. They detest their innovation and their exceptional outcomes. This bill and its intentions remind me of another bill from another New Zealand First MP that I've been hearing about recently that makes English an official language. You know what this is? This is a solution desperately looking for a problem. Earlier in the House tonight MPs including Ron Mark deputy leader of the party that is introducing this bill tonight stood up in opposition to my colleague Jonathan Young's bill on the basis that it didn't comply with a certain aspect of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act.Here we go. It's very interesting that they have not vocalised—not one has vocalised—the same reservations or condemned this breach with the same vigour that they did a mere few hours ago. Who has declared this bill as inconsistent with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act? None other than David Parker Labour Party Minister and the Attorney-General. I am sure that those MPs who voted against my colleague's bill—Jonathan Young's bill which they argue has the same faults that this bill that we are debating tonight does—will hold themselves to very high standards of principles and consistency and I look forward to them voting against this bill as we will as well. Come on. If it's good to be against the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act for one bill it should be good to be against the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act for another.Last night in the House I spoke in the debate that disestablished the Families Commission so it made sense to me that I'd call up a good friend who was a Families Commissioner. I got some good insight. Tonight I called up some teachers—one of them was my sister and it was a simple conversation: do you think there is a problem? Is your mana under threat? Are there imposters on the prowl? Are you feeling that you need to get a badge or a tattoo on your forehead? The answer is no. Face up to it. What they'd like to do what they intend to do is to strip charter school teachers of their titles. Well never mind because you've already stripped charter schools of charter schools. What it will actually do is make it an offence for adult and community teachers to call themselves teachers. Come on. Yoga teachers dance teachers art teachers—they're liable for a $2000 fine for calling themselves teachers. What shall we change it to? Yoga stretchers? How about dance movers?Another teacher said to me on the phone tonight "I've been in the game for 15 years and this has never been an issue." Another one at a decile 1 school in Rotorua said it was not for her either—not an issue. The National Party response to this bill is that—and I echo the words of my colleague Erica Stanford who spoke just before me—this is a solution looking for a problem."