Banks John: Adjournment — Sittings of the HouseText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBanks John: Adjournment — Sittings of the House[Sitting date: 11 December 2013. Volume:695;Page:15508. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon JOHN BANKS (Leader—ACT): I think a young child needs just two things: unconditional love in a home of love and care and a world-class education. There are far too many of our young children today who do not get unconditional love and do not get the opportunity for a world-class education. We can have these high-level debates about economic growth unemployment revenue expenditure control fiscal drag tax rates and everything else but unless we deal with the 20 percent long tail of failure in education then this country is never going to reach its potential. And yet for so many of those young people who come from deprived backgrounds and hardship that goes hand in hand with poor education attainment lack of self-esteem and ultimately no job—out of work and out of hope.If we want to empty out the prisons if we want to empty out the dole queues and if we want to empty out society’s people who have been left behind then we have got to give every young kid an opportunity for a world-class education. In Northland there are two things happening that the parliamentary Opposition is opposed to. In Whangaruru there is a small partnership school being set up. In Whangarei there is a small partnership school being set up. Let me give you just one fact. In Whangarei 70 percent of all Māori boys fail National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) level 1. Seventy percent fail NCEA level 1 across Northland but the partnership school in Whangarei has over the last 4 years been nurturing kids from difficult families and nurturing kids from strugglingwhānau and giving them a world-class education. That has resulted in a 100 percent pass rate in NCEA level 1 in that school which will be operational on day one term one next year. Māori boys are achieving a 100 percent success rate in NCEA level 1 through the opportunity of flexibility in education at a world-class school and it is the same in Bland Bay.My right honourable friend across the aisle Winston Peters knows Bland Bay better than anyone. He knows how deprived that area is. He knows the history of thewhānau and it goes back 800 years. They are good people but what they do need is the tide to lift all of the boats by giving them a world-class education which partnership schools will do and that is what this Government along with the ACT Party has delivered this year.I challenge anyone on the other side of the House some day in the future to migrate from here to Whangarei and Whangaruru and close down those educational excellence centres. And it will not happen. It will not happen because you cannot have kids failing at the rate of 70 percent and then come in here and say that you have got a world-class education because you have not. Everyone here knows—even Dr Norman the most illiterate of fiscal “malnutritions” in this House—that we will never get this country great and we will never make this country world class in education until we give the 20 percent of young people who fail the system an opportunity to get a world-class education the dignity of work and a future for themselves and theirwhānau.We are starting it in two deprived areas where I once located and where the right honourable gentleman came from so many years ago. He knows. He is silent. He knows. We cannot sit back in this Parliament and allow so many kids to fail in an education system that we describe as world class which is no such thing for those who fail NCEA level 1 and NCEA level 2.I give praise and thanks to the National Party partners in the coalition agreement. I give praise and thanks to the Prime Minister the Minister of Finance and in particular the Minister of Education for toughing it out against these intellectual gangsters who do not want a bar of international excellence in education for the most deprived. We do. Winston knows. Winston is not as silly as he can look. Winston knows. He knows that the way to success for his brothers and sisters in those far-flung areas from where he comes is to give them a sense of purpose and dignity through a world-class education.That is why this time next year thosemuppets will be there and this coalition will be here. That is the only reason that I am here to make sure that they are there. The biggest risk to this country’s economic future is for thosemuppets to migrate from that side of the House to this side of the House. Am I right?Hon Members: Yes you’re right.Hon JOHN BANKS: Am I right?Hon Members: Yes you’re right.Hon JOHN BANKS: How right am I?Hon Members: Very right.Hon JOHN BANKS: These people over here are the greatest risk to this country’s economic and social future that we have and it is coming around this time next year.I have got to say that I have had a very good year. They can give it but they cannot take it. I am not buckled. I am not bent. I am not wilted. I am not worried by thesemuppets over there. They do not like it. One day I will come back in here and I will make them eat crow. What will I make them do?Hon Gerry Brownlee: Eat crow.Hon JOHN BANKS: What will I make them eat?Hon Gerry Brownlee: I don’t know.Hon JOHN BANKS: What will they do? They will choke on the crow. Even my right honourable mate over there the bloke who wrote my first political speech knows it is true.I will finish as I began. This Government finishes this year strongly. It is well and ably led by John Key. The most reliable business partner this Government has isBanksie. Who? Who is the most reliable business partner?Hon Members:Banksie.Hon JOHN BANKS:Banksie. That is right. And they do not like it. OK I want to say something nice about these people so please be quiet. I want to say something nice about these people. The best thing I can wish forfor these people is to have a very safe and happy Christmas with their families in the knowledge that they will come back next year and the coalition of losers will stay exactly where it is. Is that right?Hon Members: That’s right.Hon JOHN BANKS: The coalition of losers will stay exactly where it is because the people of New Zealand know that it promotes nothing it stands for nothing it will say anything it will do what it wants to do and it has got no hope of getting over here.I want to thank my loyal staff in my parliamentary office. I want to thank my staff in Epsom. I want to thank all of the people around here who have been gracious and supportive because if it were not for the people of Epsom in 2011 we could well be over there and thesemuppets could be over here. How bad would that be? How bad?Hon Member: Very bad.Hon JOHN BANKS: Very bad—terrible. So our role in life is to make sure that we have economic security a stable Government good management of public policy a first-class front bench a fine Prime Minister and a very reliable coalition partner in the form of the ACT Party leader and member for Epsom. Do you agree?Hon Members: Yes.Hon JOHN BANKS: They agree. How good is that? Mr Speaker I wish you and your family every success for Christmas. I wish everyone in this House lots of peace and tranquillity for the future. I am looking forward to next year immensely because that is the year they are all going to eat—Hon Members: Crow.Hon JOHN BANKS: Eat—Hon Members: Crow.Hon JOHN BANKS: That is right.