Tinetti JanJAN TINETTI (Labour): I too rise and am proud to rise in support of the Prime Minister's statement. As I was listening to my colleague the Hon Meka Whaitiri speak there I thought actually I'm proud too. I'm also really proud to be standing here as part of a Government that's leading—facing up to those major challenges as my colleague spoke about. Sometimes it's not easy when you've got so many challenges that are in front of you. The task can seem too big but we're not scared of that and this Government is not scared of that. We are standing up and we are leading and we have a fantastic leader in our Prime Minister who is just such a fantastic role model for us all.We are building a stronger and a fairer country for all New Zealanders. Every single person in this country is feeling the absolute success that we are starting to see coming from this Government's gains. But one area that I want to talk about that I'm absolutely the proudest of is the true gains that we are making in our goal of New Zealand being the best place to be a child. I think the work that we are doing in this area is fantastic. Children and families are at the heart of what we do in this Government.In the education space: just two things that I want to talk about very briefly of what we have achieved. Firstly the repealing of national standards meaning that we can actually get back to a much richer curriculum for our children. We can develop them as whole and total people not just the narrow literacy and numeracy skills that actually stop them from being the wonderful people that they can be. We're actually looking at a much wider focus for those young people now.But the one that I really want to talk about that I believe we're going to see some huge gains in this year—because I can speak of so many from personal experience—is the fees-free. Now we've heard some debate from both sides about fees-free but I just want to tell a couple of wee stories of what that looks like in reality and what that has meant in reality this year for young people that I know of. At the school that I used to be principal of we never had young people who went to university. In fact in my whole 11 years there as principal not one young person from that school had enrolled in university. This year we have six young people enrolled in university for the first time ever. And when I've talked to all of those young people every single one of them said that fees-free had been a big part of the decision that helped them go along that pathway.There are others who are enrolled in other equally as important tertiary education for the very first time. Again when I talk to them fees-free is the reason for them. I just think that that is absolutely fantastic and if anybody says that that is not a success then look those young people in the eye and say that they don't matter because that is what this Government has done for those young people. They have opened up their choices and we have opened up the world for them.That is just the beginning. We have so much more to do in that space and I am so proud of the work that we are doing in expanding Mana in Mahi. That means that we are looking at advancing young people by reducing the number of young people that are not in employment education and training. We are really working hard with those young people. We are advancing reforms in the vocational sector. That is really exciting work.Now I went to a horticulture event last week one that was run up in the Bay of Plenty and people wanted to come to talk to me about what was happening in that vocational sector and the work that we're doing. I had mayors come to speak to me about it and I had people from the tertiary institutions come to speak to me about it. Actually all of them—once we had the conversation—were really excited about the potential that they could see that was coming from that vocational training. They could see the intent to actually deliver more into the regional areas. They were excited because they could see that that meant more for our region but particularly in their horticulture space they could see that something could be coordinated and be better delivered than it has been in the past.So I think that having such fantastic education policies around having children being in the best place our learners being in the best place to learn in this country I just think is absolutely fantastic and I'm proud.