Swarbrick ChlöeCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green): E Te Māngai tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. I would like to rise to add the Green Party's voice in support of this Education (National Education and Learning Priorities) Amendment Bill or the NELPs legislation. I just want to echo the sentiments that were put forward by my colleague Marja Lubeck who also joins me on the Education and Workforce Committee and who advised the House of the number of submitters who we heard from who all helped to inform a really robust process by which we have actually improved this piece of legislation and added new stakeholders who must be consulted with in the process of the Minister of Education coming up with these National Education and Learning Priorities.I also want to extend my thanks to the incredible Jan Tinetti for putting this bill in the members' ballot. She is somebody who is consistently brought up to me by organisations across the education sector as a member of Parliament who has immense understanding of the sector given her incredible life experience in leading the way and providing that space for kids.This legislation as has been noted is improved by way of the select committee process. It obviously puts at the very centre of it children's voices. The Office of the Children's Commissioner made an incredible submission to this point in particular highlighting how critically important it is that kids' voices are central to decisions made about them because so frequently they are ignored. I myself as the baby of this House—it's a technical term—would like to state that I do think that there is some incredible un-adulted" wisdom in the views that children so frequently put forward as indeed do young people.We have as has been noted added new stakeholders to this amendment bill by virtue of the submissions that we heard asking for those voices to be heard as well for that expansion. I think it's incredibly important to note that in particular the Minister will be consulting with national bodies representing the interests of the disability community. This is of particular interest to the Greens who obviously in our Green-Labour confidence and supply agreement as negotiated to help form the Government helped to secure that resource for children with learning support needs. I'm very proud to be working obviously with the Minister of Education Chris Hipkins and the Associate Minister Tracey Martin in delivering that work programme.So too we will see national bodies representing the interests of support staff something critically important; so too those representing the interests of Māori education organisations and those of Pacific education organisations. Also important to note given the changes that are obviously under way in this Government's education work programme national bodies representing the interests of proprietors of State integrated schools and those in respect of the designated character schools.So I commend this bill on behalf of the Green Party to the House and would like to say once again thank you to my incredible colleague Jan Tinetti and to the Education and Workforce Committee for our work on this piece of legislation which I think will be an incredible improvement putting children's voices at the centre of the National Education and Learning Priorities. Kia ora."