Salesa JennyJENNY SALESA (Labour—Manukau East): Labour supports this bill through to select committee. Labour is supporting the Youth Employment Training and Education Bill by Darroch Ball from New Zealand First because it believes that addressing the huge issue of those of our young people who are not in education employment or training is something that we should seriously have a conversation about. We should actually refer this bill to select committee and talk about the fact that we are not serving too many thousands of our young people. To me it is a shame that under this National Government since it came into power in 2008 we have seen an increase in those young people under the age of 24 an increase to over 90000 people.The speech that we have just had from National Government member Joanne Hayes basically ended—I was waiting and waiting until I heard whether the Government supports this bill or does not support this bill. We did not actually get to that until the very end. To me it is a shame that the Government is not supporting this bill. Why is it not supporting this bill?You know in 2013 one of the sectors in Auckland the construction and infrastructure sector came with a report that it did together with Auckland Council. That report was really detailed. The sector presented it to the Minister at the time who is the finance Minister now and it was really detailed in that it actually set out that by next year by 2018 we are going to be short in skilled labour by up to 32000 people. That is 32000 people whom we need to build up the city of Auckland the largest city. These are carpenters civil engineers plumbers—you name it.That was several years ago. We are now in 2017 and what do we see? What has this Government done? Has it actually fixed this issue? Do we have the skilled labour that we need from our own young people here in Aotearoa New Zealand? The answer to that is no. It is no.Just last week we had another sector the service sector come and launch a report here in Parliament and it told us that in 3 years by 2020 it projects that it will need 200000 trained people. Two hundred thousand new jobs—that is great. We celebrate new jobs. But the sector is worried. It is worried about where those trained people will be. I am too. When we have over 90000 young people under the age of 24—that is essentially the population of Palmerston North—who are not trained and not skilled and we have that many people whom we need in the service sector as well as in the construction and infrastructure sector just in Auckland we have an issue.When we have a Government that is not even willing to sit down under a select committee and actually listen and have a conversation about why it is that it is not serving our young people—it is not even willing to do that—we have a problem. The bill that Darroch Ball is proposing is based on the Limited Service Volunteer programme—a programme that we know has 85 percent of enlistees graduate and a programme that has 60 percent of them then find work. I do not see the sense in why we do not even agree—why the National Government does not even agree—that we should sit down at a select committee and have a conversation about what we should be doing to ensure that many more of our young people are skilled and trained and that many more of our young people are not falling through the cracks from the compulsory sector through to tertiary education to apprenticeships and to employment.This is something that the National Government should absolutely agree to. We need more of our young people to be trained. We need to ensure more of our young people especially those who are already being failed by this National Government get into some training—that they actually get employed. What this bill proposes is one of the solutions. It is a step in the right direction and it would be a shame if the National Government continued on with not agreeing with this bill that Darroch Ball is proposing. Thank you.