Sosene Lemauga LydiaLEMAUGA LYDIA SOSENE (Labour—Māngere): Lau afioga Fofoga Fetalai. Fa'afetai lava mo le avanoa. Madam Speaker thank you for the opportunity. Whāia te iti kahurangi ki te tuohu koe me he maunga teitei—seek the treasure you value most dearly; if you bow your head let it be to lofty mountains. I am very pleased to take a short call on this bill and I won't traverse all the points that have been raised by colleagues across the House. What the bill does is it's an omnibus bill that brings together three Acts and two sets of regulations. As a Pasifika person raised in Aotearoa I wanted to just touch on a few points of who will benefit from this amendment bill and it's really important that as a representative from the Pasifika community and also living in South Auckland it has huge benefits.It's really important for my colleagues some of whom have travelled the world in terms of their own caucus but I know on this side of the House we're very pleased that this bill is a good bill it has a lot of benefits and it needed to be updated with the important changes. As a member of the previous Education and Workforce Committee it was important that we have the kōrero. I want to acknowledge our previous Minister of Education Jan Tinetti but also the current Minister of Education who was also a member of the select committee at that time. And so the Systems (Education) Amendment Bill—it's important that this House understands that many of our tupulaga many of our talavou many of our young people across the motu there's actually a growing number in terms of their whakapapa. They're actually from Pasifika and iwi. And so that is a growing population and this bill will benefit some of those students.I do want to acknowledge and recognise now the Ngarimu VC and 28th (Māori) Battalion Scholarship Fund Board because the tupuaga or where this fund has come from—it's really important that some of our rangatahi some of our talavou have got some real challenges when it comes to education accessibility and this bill will benefit those young people.The importance of the relationship of Pasifika with tuakana tuahine—there are many in our future that will carry that legacy of Aotearoa. When we went through the first amendment on select committee it was the definition of Aotearoa Pasifika person. What this bill does is update that just in terms of recognising that definition but also the distinction of a Pacific person in Aotearoa that they had to meet those regulations. So what is important in the changing demographics is that it is a recognition of Pasifika young people or an Aotearoa Pasifika person and they understand what they can apply for in terms of tertiary education. And the other final point is around the change of what it used to be the authorised expenditure of $500; it will now be changed to $10000 because it hadn't been updated since 1972.Just lastly on this side of the House my Labour colleagues including myself have traversed across Aotearoa because we've attended all of the Pasifika festivals that have been going for quite some time probably the last couple of months: Northland Dunedin recently Pasifika Festival and last week ASB Polyfest. Over 100000 young people attended those and this bill will benefit many of those young people and we wish them every success. Fa'afetai.