Stanford EricaERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Thank you Madam Chair. This is a fantastic example of a bill in this transformational Government's year of delivery. It's an excellent example of how they are failing to keep their promises and how this is absolute utter rubbish that this is their year of delivery.I do wonder if the Minister of Education is going to get up again and tell us that it's another one of his promises yet to be delivered on because he knows very well that he promised all parents in New Zealand that all school donations would be done away with but what we've ended up with is not that at all. In fact what we're going to see is that probably most children in this country will end up still having to pay a school donation.It will be very interesting next year in 2020 when those invoices start coming to parents and they say But hang on a minute Chris Hipkins prior to the last election promised New Zealanders that if they were in Government in fact school donations would be scrapped. And then we remember some bill going through and we thought that would happen." What they don't realise is that the detail of the bill is it's only deciles 1 to 7 schools so all of the 8 to 10s are out including everyone in my electorate but then also those schools who actually decide that in fact they're going to be losing out under this bill—which will be quite a few I imagine—and in fact will still ask for donations.What I would like to start with is also just to talk to the Minister about school camps because there are many school camps for especially younger children—because I have a seven-year-old and he goes on a camp and it's not an overnight camp. It is a whole day and—you know what?—then they go home and they go back the next day because they're too young to stay overnight. That's a school camp.So here we've got already a problem because of rushed legislation because this Minister has to put up a Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) at the last minute because he didn't do his work—this Government didn't do their work—and rushed through a bill under urgency and then had a truncated process in which we only had 13 days for people to put in their submissions. We got about 139-odd but there would have been a whole lot more had they had more time. It just goes to show that process does matter and in fact if we had had a better process we wouldn't have to have this SOP brought by the Minister at the last minute because he didn't do his job.I'd also like to talk about inequality because 95 of the 139 submitters said that all schools should be able to get rid of school donations under this bill and that's a lot. It's a big proportion of the submitters.I want to talk about inequality and I want to ask the Minister directly because the ministry we know has been doing a huge amount of work about the decile system and getting rid of it and replacing it with a much better model. The Minister knows that very well and yet here he's bringing a bill to the House which ties us to a system that we know doesn't work. It doesn't know exactly where children are in need; it guesses where they are. We know a better system is needed. The ministry is doing work on it. The Minister agrees that we need to do work. In fact we've had a working group come back and even tell us that that's what's required and yet here we have a bill that's tying us to a system that we know doesn't work. I'd like to hear from the Minister why it is that—probably I would say in the next few years—we're going to be having to change this legislation to get rid of any reference to decile because we know very well that it's going to be gotten rid of.As I said the problems with this bill are firstly the process—it was rushed; most of the people who came to submit to the select committee said that they needed more time and there would have been a lot more submissions—there are gaping holes in the legislation and that's evident by the fact that we have this last-minute SOP because we know the Minister didn't do his work; and then of course we have the fact that this whole bill is a massive let down to parents who are expecting that next year they will turn up to school and not have to pay a donation and of course the cold hard reality will hit them that actually this Government instead of being transformational and in their year of delivery has in fact reneged again on one of their main promises: that parents won't have to pay donations any more. That is a massive let down."