Martin TraceyTRACEY MARTIN (NZ First): Kia ora Mr Deputy Speaker. I rise to my feet on behalf of New Zealand First to support this bill and I do so because—and I just want to say that I think the speaker who sat down just before is a loss to Cabinet. I think that it is unfair that Jo Goodhew was dismissed. That lady managed to get to her feet and speak about a subject she does not have a lot of knowledge about with great enthusiasm. And that is what you want in a politician—honestly. There are a lot of them over there who do not know anything about education who do constantly try to add some value but Ms Goodhew at least rose and gave it some panache. So I think that woman is a loss and the National Party should reconsider its list on the Opposition side of the House after 23 September.This document is the code of ethics we are discussing. This document is the code of conduct. I may be the only person in the whole of the place who has actually got both of them and read both of them at the same time.Todd Muller: At the same time!TRACEY MARTIN: Because I am a woman and a woman can do many things at the same time Mr Muller. The reason why it is important Ms Goodhew is the difference between—these are not names; these are descriptions. This document is a code of ethics. This says you are a professional ethical person and these are the ethics by which we will judge you. This document is a code of conduct. Conduct" is how you behave and we will dictate to you how you will behave. I think it is really interesting that this is a profession that is overwhelmingly staffed by women and we have removed the fact that they are professionals with ethics and have decided that we are going to tell them how to behave. I think it smacks of the paternalism of the National Party. It is very very interesting that this profession which is overwhelmingly female has been told by this Government: "We don't trust you to be ethical; we're going to tell you how to behave."Then we start to get into what is actually in this document. The Education Council of Aotearoa New Zealand has done a sterling job of avoiding what the Government has asked it to do. I hope that through this conversation the council are not all dismissed by the Minister of Education who has the power to dismiss them tomorrow. She has the power to dismiss them tomorrow if she believes they have intentionally gone out of their way and made this code of conduct too close to ethics.But I will tell you this: inside this code we can see Hekia Parata's hand and the hand of this Government. People will know exactly what I am talking about here. One of the indicators that you are not fulfilling the code of conduct that this Government says you must fulfil is refusing to pronounce their names correctly or learn how to—including the important names that they whakapapa to such as their whānau hapū iwi tapu marae waka or maunga. This is the Government that took away Te Kotahitanga. This is the Government that has allowed the resource teachers of Māori to almost disappear. There are no supports for the delivery of Te Reo Māori among our teaching staff in our mainstream English-medium schools. If this is not fulfilled the teacher could be dismissed. This is how prescriptive this document is. This is why it is an issue.If we are going to expand and improve on the code of ethics then expand and improve on the code of ethics. Do not start putting little pieces here and there that put a chilling effect on our educators. The first thing every dictator does is start to attack the educators. This Government has acted more and more like a dictator over the last 9 years. This bill should go forward. Hopefully it might get to the Education and Science Committee and then maybe if we remove one of the National Party members we can actually have an even conversation about what we will do in education."