SpeechDENISE LEE (National—Maungakiekie): E Te Mana Whakawā kei te kōrero ahau mō te pānuitanga tuatahi o te pire.[Madam Speaker I am speaking about the first reading of the bill.]Kiritapu Allan: Chur!DENISE LEE: Tau kē! That was my I guess positive attempt to open up with a second language. It's not a full second language but I like many others in this country would have loved the opportunity to have had a second language and to have absorbed that and had a hunger for it as a young person. I am not sure which language that previous speaker from New Zealand First Tracey Martin was speaking but it was the language of negativism—of misery quite frankly—and not seeing—Mark Patterson: Common sense.DENISE LEE: No there was no sense. It was nonsensical. There was no sense. Another New Zealand First member is saying she was talking sense. No she wasn't because clearly she either hasn't read the bill or even more so read the intent behind the bill. The fact that we have the Labour Party and hopefully others supporting this through to select committee is a testament that there is goodwill behind what the Hon Nikki Kaye is doing with this and the passion that she brings to this particular topic. We would like to see second languages for children in this country push boundaries and open doors and see opportunities that we haven't yet seen before them. I only need think about my own daughters my two—they're now upper teenaged—daughters. I've thought about the languages through their State school that they've had a taste of or a touch of and what that has done for them. I quickly jotted down that they've had Spanish French Te Reo Māori and sign language. I wanted them to pick up Mandarin; they weren't so keen. Mum was a bit disappointed but the point is they had opportunities but at the schools that they attended there wasn't the resourcing to carry on some of these opportunities. It was sort of a stop and start experience for us as a family. So what this bill is doing is looking at a framework and a comprehensive framework that we hope will have cross-party parliamentary support—apart from New Zealand First—to have a pathway for children here in New Zealand. The Minister should this progress will be required to consult on and gazette a national languages policy something that we don't have—something that this country needs. I'd also like to specifically highlight one section and that's the fact that school boards will decide which priority languages will be available for learning in each school. Now the reason why I like this having been a prior school board chair myself—and I might just quickly add in the reason why we really didn't support the education hubs that were suggested in the Tomorrow's Schools review—is because school boards truly do have—they're made up of parents right primarily? And they really do have an eye—they are parents. They have their children in the schools and I think that schools go through what I'd call life cycles. The primary school that I was the school board chair of when my children were there looks a little bit different now. In fact being a little bit more specific there are more Filipino kids right now in Ellerslie School and I think Tagalog might feature as a priority language—I don't know. Stanhope Road School in my area has got a hugely burgeoning Filipino population. So for school boards to have some guidance and direction in how the priority languages would play out for each school is a very good very localised and very customised option.I pick up and I understand from the other side of the House—and clearly even in the speeches here tonight—that there will be challenges around the workforce and the implementation investing in the workforce and figuring out where some of those pinch points will be. But we should look forward to this corporately as a House taking it to select committee. This as we know will not have enough time to make it through in the 52nd Parliament but I truly hope that whichever Government of the day will pick this up in the 53rd Parliament. Thank you.