Hipkins ChrisHon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Education): In answer to the member's question the work around schools has been looking specifically at a classroom environment and those classrooms that do or don't have natural ventilation. So no that information was not available but information around the benefits of natural airflow have been available from the beginning. It is one of the reasons why I've stood in this House many times over the last six months and explained to Opposition members who have been demanding to know why we haven't ordered more air cleaners that we haven't because they're not actually justified. In terms of Mr Goldsmith's comments around attendance I would note that attendance in New Zealand schools had been trending down since about 2015 but had actually started to stabilise before the COVID pandemic hit. Now I'm not saying that stabilising was good enough in fact we want to see attendance improving but it had started. We had arrested the decline and then of course the global pandemic hit and that changed everything. The last couple of years have been so up and down that I don't know that the numbers comparison in the pre-COVID environment to now isn't necessarily a fair comparison. As we come out of the other side of the global pandemic we've got a big task ahead of us to get kids back to school. I think it's something that everybody in the Parliament should unite behind that cause. I agree with Mr Goldsmith in raising it regularly it is something that we need to raise the national consciousness of. I do believe that parents need to take a responsibility here for getting their kids back to school. But we also need to make sure that things like the attendance service are properly resourced so that they can do their part and that schools are properly resourced for their part of that equation.In terms of Te Pūkenga the draft operating model for Te Pūkenga has been publicly released it's available on their website. When it's finalised of course is up to them. In terms of the head office I would note that they are in a point of transition at the moment and many times you do expect to see some increase in numbers before a decline in numbers when you're doing a big project like that.In terms of international students I think we've made provision for 5000 to be guaranteed to be able to have their visas processed before October. After that processing goes back to normal again and students will be able to apply. So I think the summer school period and the academic year of 2023 is looking pretty promising for international education and I certainly intend to be promoting the value of an international education in New Zealand.Teanau Tuiono raised quite a range of issues and I won't be able to do them all justice in the space of a minute or two. But in terms of the guidelines for schools around COVID-19 we will provide revised guidance to them. We've been trying to do that in a more consolidated way. In the early phases of the pandemic we were providing schools and early learning services with near daily bulletins updating them on the guidance and we've been trying to bring that back to a more reasonable level so that they can actually keep up.In terms of learning support that's been an area that the Government has put a lot of focus and a lot of investment into. We've seen the wait times for all of those learning support interventions coming down. Having said that there's no room for complacency there and we need to keep leaning on that. In terms of the Learning Support Action Plan we've seen things like the learning support coordinators rolling out—that's making a difference it's one of the things that's helping us to bring those wait times down.Finally just in terms of his question about special residential schools and whether those students are better off in special residential schools or in the community in their local community school in most cases it is going to be their local community school that is going to be the best place for them. The intensive wraparound service provides the level of support that they need to be educated and supported at their local school. But where—in a very high threshold—there's a need for some support from a residential school we want parents and the school communities to have that as an option.