Martin TraceyHon TRACEY MARTIN (NZ First): Kia ora Madam Chairperson Williams. Thank you very much. I did contribute earlier but I actually want to just raise a couple of other areas in Part 2. The first part that I would actually like to address is the removal of new section 178A. Now that was something that had been put in by the original authors of the bill which was the previous administration and it's 178A Written resolutions of councils". This has been removed. What it originally said was "(1) A resolution signed or assented to in writing (whether sent by post delivery or electronic communication) by all members of the council who are entitled to vote on the matter is as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the council."Now I think quite rightly New Zealand First supports the removal of clause 28 inserting new section 178A from the original piece of legislation. This clause would have meant that councils could make decisions behind closed doors and I don't think that anybody would accept when these are public institutions or when there are students who are paying fees and are affected by the rules that would be made or the written resolutions that would be made by councils that it is appropriate that councils could—whether it be a series of emails or whether it be a series of phone calls—just decide away from the public face away from stakeholders and make decisions that will then downstream affect the students. So I think actually the removal of new section 178A "Written resolutions of councils" is a very good removal and we compliment the Minister upon that.If we then talk about the replacement—so another clause that has been removed so that we can improve this piece of legislation is the removal in clause 38 of new section 292C(2A). It previously said "A person commits an offence—(a) who knowingly or recklessly makes a false representation on a student's record of achievement that the student has achieved a credit: (b) who without reasonable excuse causes a false representation to be made on a student's record of achievement that the student has achieved a credit." Now I would have to say this. This is based on real cases where fraudulent records were made of a student achievement. However this Government is replacing section 292C(3) with "A person commits an offence if the person—(a) enters or changes an educational outcome on a student's record of achievement knowing that or being reckless as to whether the entry or change has the effect of falsifying the student's record;"—that is we make it clearer that it is deliberate. That's something that I find very interesting—that the previous administration did not go that far. We are making it very very clear that if it is deliberate you will be held to account.Replacement section 292C(3)(b) says "fails to enter an educational outcome on a student's record of achievement knowing that or being reckless as to whether the omission has the effect of falsifying the student's record;". Now people might think that's odd that we've talked about an omission but what we had was a particular case where a particular tutor passed certain students knowing—and with evidence—that they had failed and yet because they perhaps didn't like or they did not get some sort of compensation from other students who had passed or could have passed the tutor did not enter those marks.Now this is something that for the reputation of our nation for the reputation of international students and the international student industry in this country—a $4.5 billion industry—we must stamp out. This Government will be very very very clear that we have a high-quality highly accountable international student industry in this country. We will support it to be that high-level highly reputable international student industry and to do that we will stamp out situations that we heard of through submissions. I compliment the Minister for replacing section 292C(3) because it needed to be stronger than what the previous administration had put into place."