Social Security Legislation Rewrite
and Disability Support Services
on Government Order of the Day No.4. Education (Teaching Council of
Aotearoa)
reading. I call the Hon Tracey reading. I call the Hon Tracey
Martin. I move
that the Education (Teaching Council of Aotearoa)
Amendment Bill now be read a third
time. On behalf of my colleague, the
Hon Chris Hipkins, I wish to commend
the third reading of this bill to
the House. I want to acknowledge the
incredible collegial,
incredible collegial, collaborative way that this Government
has worked together to make sure that when we
were in the opposition listening
to the tens of thousands of teachers
have their identity stripped
away from them by the
previous Government, by taking out the
word
that we listened to them and worked that we listened to them and worked
together at that time to try and put
together at that time to try and put
some sense back into what, at that
time, was a National
Government who didn't care about the tens of
thousands of people represented by
thousands of people represented by
those that submitted to the
select committee, nor did they care about
the fact that there should be no
taxation without representation,
that if the teachers themselves fund
the
that if the teachers themselves fund the teaching
Zealand they should have the right to elect representatives to it.
What was interesting in
the readings we have seen up to this point,
Madam Speaker, is the fact that the
National Party, the
Opposition, has argued that because there was a low
turnout by the teaching profession,
a profession which
had been under attack for over a
decade, a profession that had been
overworked and under funded, something that
this Government on this side,
all three parties, that form up the
Coalition Government, this MMP Government that works constructively
to make sure that the issues that are important to New
Zealanders are addressed as quickly as we can, as
constructively as we can, when
we recognise, and so we recognise that
they
recognise, and so we recognise that
and insulted by the previous administration, they were overworked
often all consultation was done over the
often all consultation was done over
during the fourth term. Now anybody who has anything to do with
education knows how difficult it
is or would be to consult on
a document such as this bill in the
fourth term of a teaching year. But that
is often what was done. Some
might say deliberately done by the previous
administration. So it is
with real thrill that
administration. So it is with real
today on behalf of the Minister of Education, the Hon Chris Hipkins, on
behalf of New Zealand First and
say that we support this bill through
the House. It brings back the level
of democracy that should never
have been removed. Rather than remove
democracy, why wouldn't anybody
support a
support a greater education programme or support programme or
programme or support programme or
even some sort
of investigation to find out why teachers didn't
participate in the election of
representatives onto the teaching
This side of the House, who works much more collaboratively with the
much more collaboratively with the
education sector, will ensure that
there is greater understanding about
how that process can
be undertaken, about why it is a value to them
and make sure that they are
represented there, along with other members. So
there, along with other members. So
with that, Madam Speaker, I don't
want to take anymore of the House's
time. Everything
time. Everything has been traversed here. The Opposition
will stand and say something
say something about money, rememberk that they spent millions upon
millions of
millions of taxpayers dollars renaming things in the last
10 year,
already been announced but they will already been announced but they will
go there and No. An attempt to
justify their opposition to bringing
back democracy to our education
profession, by bringing back
recognition of teachers into the
recognition of teachers into the
name of this
council, by bringing back what is the voice of
educational professionals to
their professional body. The fact that
it is funded by them, it administrates
and is the overview of them, the
fact that they are the ones who
are going to be either benefiting or
be derided most by this
going to be either benefiting or be
Teaching Council of Aotearoa, so therefore they should have a say.
We support the bill.
I recommend the bill to the House, Kia Ora.
The question is that the
motion be agreed to. I call the
Hon Nikki Kaye. At the outset of my
speech on this piece of legislation I do want
to take a moment to
acknowledge this incredible week for
New Zealand and actually some female and
women MPs in this House from both sides. The
acknowledge Dame Jenny Shipley, I want to acknowledge the Hon
Helen Clark. We