Logie Jan; Tisch LindsayJAN LOGIE (Green): I rise to take a call on behalf of the Green Party on the Education Legislation Bill. The Green Party continues to oppose this piece of legislation. As has been mentioned by other speakers we have struggled to find any compelling reason for this legislation and struggled to see any coherence in the provisions that are being put forward. What this bill does is several things really. It will enable a principal to manage more than one school it will make changes to school opening hours it will enable tertiary education institutions to sponsor charter schools it will enable those charter schools to have their students use the facilities of a State-funded school it will enable home-based early childhood education (ECE) services to offer out-of-school care services as well and it will create a new category of teaching position that will enable unqualified teachers to enter our school system and presumably to have similar responsibilities as teachers—formally qualified teachers with educational training—but without the experience and qualifications.If you look at all of those different provisions it is really hard to see what the common thread is and it is also very hard to see where the arguments of some of the speakers from the Government come from where they are saying: This Government is all about putting the children first.". It is really really hard for me to see how enabling a principal to manage more than one school is putting the interests of the child first. I really struggle to see how enabling a tertiary education institute to sponsor a failed charter school concept is putting the interests of the child first. And I really do not see how enabling home-based ECE services to provide after-school care as well is putting the child first either. I would like to speak a little bit more on that point because I think it does need talking about.Home-based care has proliferated under this Government. There has been more than a doubling of home-based ECE services between 2000 and 2013 to over 20000 places now. They are services that get the same amount of funding as say kindergartens where they are trying to have 100 percent fully qualified teachers. A home-based service which in effect in many instances is just a childcare arrangement gets the same funding as an educational service like a kindergarten. Most home-based services have a teacher who is qualified sitting off somewhere else. That qualified person sitting way over there on the end of a phone may oversee 20 different home-based services. There may be 80 children across those 20 different centres with only one qualified person sitting somewhere over there and the same funding is provided to that service and those children—supposedly—as to a kindergarten where it is trying to have 100 percent qualified teachers because it knows that that is what will set those children up for life.And now this Government is introducing into that very very chaotic system the ability for those same providers to provide after-school care. So you have a dynamic where you have got babies and you have got very young children and now you have older children all in the same mix—supervised by one person without any qualification whatsoever and with external supervision way out there from one teacher for over 20 services. That in no way puts the interests of our children first. I was at a kindergarten yesterday and because of the funding system that has been set up kindergartens are now having to fund-raise to provide paint for their children. It is an essential ingredient in the learning and play of our children and kindergartens are now having to fund-raise to provide it because of this system. The Government in this legislation is just making it worse.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call the Hon David Cunliffe—5 minutes."