Rurawhe AdrianADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Tēnā koe e Te Heamana. If there was a national standard for Budgets I am afraid this Budget would fail. Actually it would be pretty damned hopeless". That statement was made in my electorate—in Feilding actually. There is a group of parents in Feilding who have had the courage to start their own school. The reason why they wanted to start their own school is that none of the schools there are providing total immersion Te Reo Māori. So that is what they wanted to do and good on them. It has been an absolute struggle for them though. In this Budget there is nothing there for them. They are on to their third venue. That is just not good enough. The Minister of Education talks about providing good safe school buildings for students. There is a group in Feilding that has nothing like that. They deserve better. Children living in poverty—what is in this Budget for them for education? How does a child go home to a car and try to do their homework? There is nothing in this Budget for them. How do children do their homework without Wi-Fi? They do not have the ability to connect to the internet. There is more pressure on their parents. As we heard from my colleague Chris Hipkins it is much more expensive for parents now to provide an education when living in cars. My colleague Jenny Salesa knows all about that because a lot of them are in her electorate. The Minister talked about the increased budget. Well actually it has not increased enough. This idea that you can have targeting for certain areas of education does not really work. The overall effect for most children living in poverty is that they do not get to benefit from it. That is a sad occasion. I had the privilege of visiting a group of rangatahi in Palmerston North. The system has failed for them. They have dropped out of secondary school. They have even dropped out of alternative education. And if it was not for Te Aroha Noa Community Services a group in Palmerston North that has given them the opportunity to have a safe place for them to learn then they would not be in any education like 64000 others. They would not be in training they would not be in employment and they would not be in education. There is nothing in this Budget for them. I cannot help but comment on Māori boarding schools. Māori boarding schools deserve a better deal. The contribution that Māori boarding schools have made to this country is significant. The closures that have happened I think are symptomatic of how the Ministry of Education has not supported these very important schools. I think about the amount of money that the Government has poured into private schools and into charter schools and then I look at the opportunities for the likes of Turakina Māori Girls College which was closed last year and it is very disappointing. There is nothing in this Budget for Māori boarding schools. I think the Māori Party members should be ashamed of themselves. They talk about sitting at the table that makes decisions that provide opportunities. Well there has been a high cost for those opportunities which go to only a very small number of people. If you have a look at the numbers of Māori children attending charter schools they are very low compared with the numbers who are going to mainstream schools. My question is: where is the benefit for those Māori kids and actually all kids living in poverty? All the kids who deserve better opportunities—where are the opportunities for them in this Budget? I cannot see them. Thank you."