Salesa JennyANGELA ROBERTS (Labour): Kia ora Madam Speaker. I'd just like to acknowledge the traumatic events of the last few weeks and we have had so much about the initial response the bravery the sacrifices how communities have wrapped around and the loss and the trauma suffered.I want to take a moment as we continue to support the response and prepare for the recovery and rebuild to consider the very important role and positive and significant role—that you haven't heard about from the other side—that our schools and educators are playing and will continue to play as we rebuild and rebound strongly. Schools alongside our marae and churches have been a safe place for people to gather to share food to share tears and stories to find a bed and clean clothes. In the middle of all of that we've heard about the incredible damage to our campuses to our kura and to the institute the Eastern Institute of Technology campus over on the coast. And we heard from our honourable Minister McAnulty about how desperate those schools were to reopen. We're down to less than a dozen—it is amazing—despite the damage to their schools and despite the significant personal loss and trauma of the adults in those schools as well.We know that they're doing this because they know that they play such a vital role in this recovery. Schools are a place where students turn up and they support each other and they find support they share their stories and they gather strength—and somehow they're still working on their learning. This Government understands the importance of a strong high quality public education system—and we back it; we invest in it—the role that it plays in building a workforce an economy but also engaged and able citizens and a healthy society. We've walked the talk. We've heard the Prime Minister talk about the extended childcare support that is going to enable 10000 children—10000 children; not a win-win but a win-win-win all right? Not just for households who have reduced costs and increased incomes but for employers because they have got more parents able to enter the workforce and attend to some of those shortages but most importantly for our tamariki because we all know how life changing access to early childhood is for them.At the other end of the learning journey we have heard about the 600 percent—just in six months last year—increase in the training incentive allowance. And we heard again today about the individual lives and their whānau who are impacted for the rest of their lives by access to education that way: 215 trades training positions 54000 apprentices. How are we going to rebuild this country? By rebuilding our workforce and we've done it. And we continue to do it. We have built 32000 additional classroom spaces. We have provided access to school-based health services for 115000 secondary students. We've delivered 33000 hours of free counselling to primary intermediate and secondary school students.Just a couple of weeks ago we have heard of an even greater investment in our attendance network: $74 million in addition to the 88 already committed. That will put dozens of attendance officers into schools to contribute to all of the other services that are going on. You asked schools and teachers what they need and we've delivered it.Hon Member: Ha ha!ANGELA ROBERTS: I'm glad to see that you're pleased that that's happening.This Government has proven it has the leadership to attend to what is important to New Zealanders. We are not scared to acknowledge and rise to the challenges—and we do have them in education. But rather than fall back lazily on old and failed ideologies we are curious; we investigate; we gather the data; we talk to the professionals the academics with iwi with whānau and their kids; and we come up with change that is effective—we invest better start being a great example. Our educators will play a critical role in our recovery and rebuild. It will be a long hard road but we've learnt through earthquakes and through COVID that teachers and schools step up and they respond. And this is especially important as we're supporting families who've got no washing machine for the school uniform no books and no bed and are still doing their best to get their students to school. Teachers educators schools will do it creatively nimbly and with expertise and humanity for years to come and for that we are incredibly grateful. Thank you.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): I call on Lemauga Lydia Sosene for five minutes.