Goldsmith PaulHon PAUL GOLDSMITH (National): Thank you Madam Chair. Just in relation to the Minister's answer to my first question I'll ask my question again because he didn't answer it. He just talked a little bit about history and then about the National Party's history. I want to know what does he believe the Treaty requires in terms of decision making in the educational context because we've heard today what the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health believe it means in decision making in the health context where there are poor Māori outcomes. There are also poor Māori outcomes in education and I want a clear answer from him not an attack on the National Party or on history just a clear understanding of what his policy is today.Secondly on the question of attendance which we've been talking about quite some time I went to a school a couple of weeks ago Whitiora School in Hamilton a school with a roll of over 200-250 students where the regular attendance was 15 percent in the fourth quarter of last year. Fifteen not 50—1-5; 15 percent. Only 15 percent of students were meeting the threshold of regular attendance and it turns out there are nearly 20 schools across the country—17 schools—where fewer than 20 percent of students attend regularly. In fact there are even four schools where fewer than 10 percent of students attend regularly. If you look at deciles 1 and 2 schools fewer than 50 percent—right across the whole deciles 1 and 2—attend regularly. So our attendance rates are a national scandal. My criticism of this Government because it's not a new problem but it has been getting worse—my criticism of the Minister and I want to hear his response is that notwithstanding that there's about 18 reviews under way in education and there's a whole lot of things going on in education but I don't see a clear focus on turning that around. The Minister has said in the Chamber many times that the primary responsibility rests with parents—and I agree with him—but is that signal being sent very clearly to parents that their fundamental responsibility is to make sure that their kids are at school with lunches and properly fed?Then secondly for the schools what consequences if any are there for schools if year in year out month in month out only 50 percent or 15 percent are turning up regularly and what consequences are there if any?Thirdly when it comes to the attendance services or the old truancy regime what's happening there? We have a very small amount allocated about $10 million a year and it is manifestly inadequate to the task and yet this Government decides that rather than putting more resource into that area and acknowledging there has been a little bit that's gone in during the COVID crisis but still relatively little instead money is poured into things such as ensuring that my children and children from wealthy families don't have to pay their NCEA fees which hardly strikes me as a critical issue. Or they get their first year at university free—a whole lot of universal spending very poorly targeted and yet the kids aren't at school. They're not making any progress because they're not in school.The final question I have is: what is so terrible about the children of former students of a school going to the same school as their parents even if they're out of zone? The proposal is that this is such a terrible thing that we have to finish off. What's wrong with there being a bit of tradition and families enjoying those traditions?Then just the final one to throw at the Minister we're throwing out accounting economics and business studies at NCEA level 1 in favour of commerce. How are we going to make progress in dealing with financial literacy and all of these other things when we're throwing them out and replacing them with a subject? The first of the three big ideas for commerce is not anything about double accounting or anything like that. The first big idea says that this is what we're expecting our commerce students to learn—that society seeks hauora through kaitiakitanga tauhokohoko enterprise and innovation. I'd be interested to know if the Minister can tell us what tauhokohoko is and just explain what that means and what the context is for the commerce degree. Thank you.