SpeechHon NIKKI KAYE (National—Auckland Central): So this is my final call and I want to just raise more a range of issues that I will try and link to the financial review but the first one is really at the heart of it around schools' operational budgets. We obviously had the amount that was fixed in the last Budget but I just got an email from a school who was telling me that it's going to cost them $9000 a week for hand sanitiser. So my plea to the Minister and one of my questions—I've got about four or five of them—for the Minister is that when it comes to personal protective equipment (PPE) hand sanitiser and access to flu jabs absolutely that is prioritised in school budgets and that we provide additional assistance in that area. The second issue that has been raised very publicly but again it relates to the financial review and Māori education is the issues that have been raised by kōhanga reo for instance around access to equitable resources. We've had a number of schools as well and we've got children in rural areas that don't have access to broadband. I know that the Government has tried to put in additional resources in terms of devices but as my colleague Melissa Lee has raised there are real issues of cost for some families around access to learning so I hope that we acknowledge that in the Budget next week. The third issue that I want to again reiterate—and Shane Reti will say more about that—is the comments that he's made in terms of international students. It is very very significant. I know what he's saying in terms of high-decile schools but it is both the tertiary sector and a number of schools across New Zealand that are hit by this. So anything that we can do in this space to ensure that we are providing a safe environment and can also have that international student sector up and running will be very welcome and he's obviously already made comments in that area. Two other issues that I want to raise with the Minister: again this issue and the comments that he made previously about ensuring that we give confidence to educators and parents. I think on this side of the House we have been actually very careful in the public statements that we've made. We have tried to differentiate between legitimate questions of risk that the educators and parents are asking of us and then the things that are necessary to give the sector confidence for parents and teachers to want to turn up. I think whether it is the additional staffing amounts—which I'll get on to in a second in terms of particularly those students sitting NCEA—whether it is those issues of access to PPE or hand sanitiser or whether it is clearer guidance all of this is crucial over the coming days to be able to give parents who are scared and teachers who are scared the confidence to go back to school. Some of that is cash. It's on the backdrop of some inequities in certain areas and I certainly think that you will hear that chorus from the education sector because we are certainly hearing that. My final comment really is to again acknowledge all of the teachers the learning support staff the cleaners the principals and leaders in Māori education and Pasifika education but also our public servants. I have a role as do my colleagues to question the Ministry of Education at times but I do understand that those senior public servants but also those other people in the ministry that have been working—they haven't had a break. They've been working around the clock. Finally I do acknowledge you Minister because while we may contest in this House many aspects of the response because that is our job and we do that in a responsible way we also acknowledge that Ministers are working on these issues night and day.