Kaye NikkiHon NIKKI KAYE (National—Auckland Central): Look I'm very pleased to speak in this debate. Firstly though can I just acknowledge that this Estimates debate and the discussion around Vote Education demonstrate in my view the epic failure that is the Hon Chris Hipkins. He has failed to succeed. In the middle of the global financial recession with the Canterbury earthquakes National took the Vote Education from $8 billion to $11 billion and what we saw in this Budget was actually a reduction in overall funding for the compulsory sector from 13.2 percent of the Budget to 12.8 percent. What is incredible is at a time when you had loads of extra cash Chris Hipkins completely failed to get the compulsory sector a larger chunk of the pie. That's the first point that I'd like to make.The second point is this is a Budget of broken promises. We have added up at least 18 areas of broken promises. We saw the Minister on national television say to Hilary Barry I am not only going to scrap donations but I'm going to do it in this first Budget." Where is it Mr Hipkins? It isn't here and that is a long line of broken promises by this Minister. You can see in the report back from the Education and Workforce Committee again a situation where Labour members want to rewrite history. Well let's give you a little bit of history on school property. Actually under a National Government we went from $3.5 billion of expenditure under the previous Labour Government to $5.5 billion of expenditure. We fixed a whole lot of issues around leaky buildings and invested in growth. But again this is a Minister that talked a massive game during the campaign and what happened? He got exactly the same amount of property funding that we had at a time when we had a global financial recession and Canterbury earthquakes. Also the other thing that was not in there was an adequate package around Auckland growth. I know because I put forward a Cabinet paper last year saying there needed to be additional funds in Auckland. He failed in the area of school infrastructure. We also know in the area of partnership schools what is telling is what is not in the Budget in terms of supporting these schools around transitions and transparency in terms of compensation payments. We also know that what's not in the Budget is additional teacher pay. So we have the situation where the Budget is about $2.8 billion for students but why do we have teachers out there striking? Because they know that Chris Hipkins failed the primary and secondary sector in this Budget? He hasn't put—there is no obvious sign there—a whole lot of cash aside for teacher pay. That's why parents are going to be disrupted—Jamie Strange: What's your plan?Hon NIKKI KAYE: —and the answer actually is Jamie that under a National Government we did increase on average teacher pay by 17 percent. The reality is we did that with the backdrop of a global financial recession and the Canterbury earthquakes and this is a Minister that is so incompetent that he's seen the compulsory and secondary sector budgets shrink compared to other areas and we now have a situation just like the health situation where we've got planned strikes. So it's a Budget of broken promises. It's a Budget that is about a lack of priority for teachers because we can see the $2.8 billion that's been put aside for students and it's also a Budget about ideology. We can see that in the sense that he is supporting the scrapping of partnership schools—again not enough transparency around that. But what is also telling is what is not in this Budget. A litany of broken promises—and a classic example of this which I know my colleague will talk about is in the early childhood education area where again we were promised 100 percent qualified and a band in the Budget that would be provided. Where was it? It's not there. We were promised around school-leavers' toolkits $170 million. Where is it? $1.7 million—one percent of what was promised. In terms of teacher supply we were all promised $40 million of initiatives and that all teacher supply issues would be resolved. What happened? He spent two-thirds of that. So at a time when there's possibly more than 20 percent more cash the education compulsory and secondary sector budget's shrunk and this Minister has delivered a litany of broken promises. The reality is why? Because he's given the money to students."