Willis NicolaNICOLA WILLIS (National): Well what an exercise in contrast this general debate has been. On that side of the House we have Winston Peters talking about numbers making spurious attacks on people and their personalities. We have Kieran McAnulty being a little rat for his party and on this side of the House—SPEAKER: Order! I think that's out of order and the member will withdraw and apologise.NICOLA WILLIS: I withdraw and apologise. I withdraw and apologise and I rephrase in a way that is far more parliamentary. We have Kieran McAnulty—SPEAKER: Order! Order! No the member withdraws and apologises—it's unconditional and she doesn't tell us she's going to say the same thing again.NICOLA WILLIS: Mr Speaker I certainly will not say the same thing again. The people of the Wairarapa—SPEAKER: And the member will not comment on my rulings. The member actually knows a bit about this place.NICOLA WILLIS: The people of the Wairarapa did not elect Kieran McAnulty to talk about the Opposition. They elected him to deliver on the promises he made on the campaign trail. [Interruption] I'm sorry I misspeak again. This is becoming a habit. They did not necessarily do that.But Government is not about what you promise. It is actually not about your good intentions. It is about—finally in the end—what is delivered. It is about results. Here in this Government we have promises of the world in education and we have the reality of the third teachers' strike being scheduled. We have the reality of the massive disruption and uncertainty up and down the country as around $15 million worth of reviews are conducted. We have the Tomorrow's Schools review we have the NCEA review we have the early learning strategic review we have the cross- Government child well-being strategy review we have the review of the institutes of technology and polytechnics sector we have the review of the risk index funding—the list goes on but those are not what people wanted the Government to be focused on. They simply believed that the Government would do what it promised.So I've gone and I've looked at the manifesto and I've looked at the pledges and here they are. I suggest that members opposite go and refamiliarise themselves with this the education manifesto that Labour put out before the election and that they refamiliarise themselves with the pledge that so many of them signed—the NZEI pledge for early childhood education. In that pledge what Minister Hipkins and others said they would do is that they would fund 100 percent qualified teachers. They said that it would be there right from the start it would be there from 1 July—it even made it into Grant Robertson's fiscal plan. Was it there in their first Budget? No it was not.Let me make it clear for this House that the expectation of the early childhood sector in this Budget is that that promise will be delivered on and that the promise to reduce teacher-child ratios and group sizes will be delivered on and that the promise to increase funding for early childhood education will be delivered on but so far that has not been the case. Instead we have had on-going quality issues and we have had on-going challenges.What was also in the manifesto which I pointed out to you was all sorts of things that Labour rallied against. They rallied against relentless change to legislation and regulation distracting attention from what really matters". They rallied against "bureaucratic accountability requirements" and they said that creativity and innovation were being hampered by Government red tape and compliance. Yet there was no mention of a review of Tomorrow's Schools. That was not in the manifesto. That was not flagged to anyone and it is the reason why the people that we have spoken to that Nikki Kaye has spent hours upon hours talking to say that they are afraid because no one flagged that this review was coming. They fear a loss of responsiveness to local communities. They fear bureaucratic paralysis. They fear that there will be a destruction of meaningful parental involvement. They fear another layer in the middle creating buck-passing. They fear that children will be forced to attend a local school.What we have here is a party that promised many things that is not delivering on them and instead is bringing in a whole range of changes that no one wants because actually what people want is pretty simple. They want teachers who are teaching well and who are happy. They want Mr Hipkins for you to drop the ideology to get the basics right and to put children and parents at the centre of what you do. You said you would do things—do them before you waste your time on additional reviews.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."