SpeechJO HAYES (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. I'm pleased to take a call on the Education (School Donations) Amendment Bill in its second reading. I found it quite interesting when the Minister of Education said that this bill will stop schools from soliciting donations from parents. I can almost guarantee that that won't happen. I think that even though the $150 will go to deciles 1 to 7 schools in this bill it still will not stop schools in those deciles from actually soliciting further money from some of those parents because it is not enough per head per student to cover all the costs that schools need to meet out of those donations. Now the Hon Nikki Kaye talked a little bit about outdoor education. My children went to a rural school and then they went to secondary school in Palmerston North and Feilding. Each time every year we were asked for donations. Every year as parents we went out fund-raising just to make sure that all the children of those respective schools were able to participate in areas of education activities that their parents could not afford to contribute in the donations side of the school. It has been one of those areas that I have been brought up with that my children have been brought up with and that they have now brought others up with as well. It is an inequitable bill this bill: only deciles 1 to 7 not deciles 8 9 and 10. Why not all the deciles? Why did this Government change its mind over including all the deciles in this particular bill? Why in fact did not this Government look at wiping the decile system as the National Party policy that we had prior to the 2017 election as one of our election policies would have done? All of these things were handed to that Government across the way on a platter and they walked away from it. So that would have been more equitable had the decile system been wiped out and everything been evened out. One area that I haven't heard spoken about in this bill today is there's a clause that's been added by the Minister who will have wide discretion to cut payments for schools if he thinks they haven't complied with the conditions of the scheme. One of the things that I haven't seen in this bill is what the monitoring process that this Minister is going to do to actually see whether or not the school has been compliant—there has been no detail around that monitoring system and that is actually very unfair because every organisation that I've worked with and that I know of is monitored for their funding actually have some sort of audit and monitoring system as part and parcel of their contract. In this particular bill there is no detail around how the Minister's discretionary processes will be enacted within this bill to actually take funding off those schools and if he or she does that then how will that school recover from that loss of donation? How will they recover? So there's that big gap around how is the Minister going to use his discretionary powers and how is it monitored. Where is the detail? Anyway without any further ado this is just one of the key areas that I looked at in this bill that has big gaping gaps in it and that needs to be addressed. I think that the process that this Government has gone through to bring this bill to a second reading has been shoddy and has actually disrespected all the schools of New Zealand. I do not support this bill.