Martin TraceyTRACEY MARTIN (NZ First): Kia ora Mr Chair. [Interruption]The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Oh sorry. I have already called. I should have called the chair. I have called Tracey Martin.TRACEY MARTIN: Kia ora. Minister Parata made an announcement that this Budget provided an extra $8.9 million for the Intensive Wraparound Service. This amount included $1.5 million for the specialist equipment and technology. So that means that the actual amount in this Budget—the increase for our most vulnerable students—is $7.4 million. This amount is spread over 4 years so that works out to be $1.85 million per year. The announcement went on to say that this would correlate to an expansion of the intensive wraparound service to an extra 50 students. This would make the capped number of students able to access this total fund up to 335 throughout the whole of New Zealand. No more than 335 students with the highest and most complex behavioural and learning needs can access this funding in New Zealand.So if the Minister's numbers are to be believed and an extra $1.85 million per year will support another 50 students that works out to be an average of 37000 students per year. But—hang on a minute—the Minister is currently out in the media telling the public of New Zealand that the average cost of providing intensive localised support through IWS is $27000." So which number is to be believed—the Budget document or the Minister's statement—as she tries to justify her desire to close New Zealand's only single-sex residential high-needs school for girls?Let us take the Budget figures to be on the safe side—this budget of $37000 per student per year. Under this document what does it pay for? Well if a family is very lucky and after 2 years of trying after 60-plus hours of paperwork if you manage to get through the Intensive Wraparound Service (IWS) committee which will not make its application criteria public so as to avoid parents and schools tailoring their applications to meet their secret criteria—if you get through all that what support does your extremely high-needs child get? Well this amount of money pays for one hopes full support for your student for the 6 hours that they are at school.In this Budget according to the Minister's own figures in her press release there is an amount of just under $2 million for Salisbury School. The Minister points out that the current roll of Salisbury School is nine girls. There are in fact 10 girls at Salisbury School today. So using the Minister's number this equates to $200000 per student at their current numbers. However the Minister neglects to tell the New Zealand public of the sinking lid she and her Government have forced on this school these parents and these girls. If this Minister and this Government had allowed parents to apply directly to Salisbury—rather than using the IWS committee as a roadblock to artificially lower enrolment numbers even up to the 2015 cap of 30 students—this figure would drop to approximately $66000 per student not for 6 hours of teacher-aide time but for 24-hour 7-days-a-week highly specialised and highly qualified teachers social workers and caregivers in a suitable and safe environment.Now let us break down those figures. The Budget figures say that the cost of the IWS equates to $37000 per annum per student. If we take this amount and divide it by 6 hours a day 5 days a week for 41 school weeks in a year we get a spend of $30 per hour. There are teacher-aides all over the country sitting down in shock that they are getting paid $30 an hour. Let us take the amount of $66000 per annum per student which would be the cost if the Government removed the sinking lid on Salisbury School. If we take this amount and divide it by 24 hours a day 7 days a week for 41 school weeks of the year we get a spend of $9.60 per hour. But let us be generous—let us do the same equation but use the highly inflated manipulated dollar figure used by the Minister. Let us take the $200000 per student at Salisbury. Let us divide that by 41 weeks and then divide this by 168 hours per week as Salisbury provides 24/7 education and care of these young women. What we get is an hourly rate of $29 per hour. So using the Budget's numbers Salisbury School is cheaper at delivering its specialist care than the current IWS programme. Yet the Minister continues to use those numbers to try to persuade the New Zealand public that it cannot be afforded.I want to switch over to another little topic around the $11 billion in this Budget that this Government quite correctly says that it is spending on education. I want to make sure that taxpayers understand that $68243000 of this money is being paid out to integrated school proprietors for them to modernise their private assets. This funding is being recorded as being used to assist them to expand their privately owned network."