O'Connor Simon; Dean JacquiSIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): It's clearly indicative of the lack of enthusiasm on the Government's part that they won't take a call. But as a slight Christmas present I will not make this a completely long 10-minute speech. Fundamentally we've been hearing from the left side of this House that it's about putting the children at the heart of this. The problem is that it's all about actually putting the Minister the Government and bureaucrats at the heart of education. So for those listening out there the Government yesterday dumped an SOP—and you're going What's an SOP?" Well to sort of riff on the element of education and training: "SOP" is an acronym for a Supplementary Order Paper. It's an amendment to a piece of legislation. The irony for those of us who are of course in politics is that this is the first reading of a completely new piece of legislation but the competence of this Government is sorely on display in that they needed within minutes—actually prior to the legislation even being introduced to the House—they've had to make changes and not only that the changes are egregious.Long and short—probably more long—the Government wants to put more and more control into who sets up early childhood education (ECE). We've heard some very poor excuses from the other side: there's the chance that those setting up ECE will turn out to be very dangerous criminals. I suppose that's possible. It would be interesting if the Government could provide any statistics of how many people running ECEs have turned out to be dangerous criminals and as the Corrections spokesperson I might point out that we don't really put these people in prison anymore anyhow. But basically the SOP is outlining a whole lot of conditions rules and regulations which the Minister exercises. So National opposes this bill because as I said at the start it's not putting the children at the centre; it's actually putting the Labour Government. Unfortunately this is very true to form because we're seeing this level of control right through the sector. We've seen it with the polytechs we've seen it with the health sector we've seen it around water; you name it. The Government wants more and more control. So we oppose this bill. We will look forward to it going into select committee. We hope New Zealanders do submit a lot because as others have noted there's a whole pile of stuff in here from Police vetting to strengthening the Teaching Council disciplinary processes and so forth. So it's really important for teachers and educators to be aware.In concluding people need to be aware of the mischief that this Government has already created. I won't ask the other side to spell "mischief"; it might be a little bit of a challenge—it begins with an "M". But basically the bill's convoluted in itself and as I say yesterday before this was even read a first time an SOP an amendment has already been tabled. As some have noted it's a bit of a Trojan Horse and that's where we've got probably the most focus and probably the principal reason why National opposes it. So I'll repeat what I said at the start: the Government cannot make the argument—well not successfully—that it's children at the centre. This is all about the Minister it's all about the Government and it's all about control.Ibrahim Omer: Madam Speaker?ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Before I take the call could the member clarify whether he is seeking a five-minute call on behalf of the Māori Party who did not take up their call?Ibrahim Omer: No I'm taking a full call—10 minutes.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Thank you. I call Ibrahim Omer."