INTERRUPTION It does,
It does, it sends out damning messages to
needs to be done and that
cannot support the bill. Jenny
Salesa. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Labour supports
the select committee. Labour is supporting the
supporting the Youth Employment
Training Education Bill by Darroch Ball of New
Zealand First is because
seriously have
employment or
refer this bill
and talk about the fact that we are not serving too
our young people, Mr Speaker. To me,
itisa
it is a shame that
National Government,
into power in 2008, we have seen
increase in those young people under the age of 24 increase
this bill or didn't support this
bill. We didn't actually get to it
till the very end. To me, it
shame that they're not supporting
. In 2013, one of the sectors
Auckland, the infrastructure and
construction sector Came with a report, which was really detailed,
presented it to the Minister
at the time who
now, and
now, and it set out that by 2018,
next year, we'll be short in skilled labour by up
Speaker. 32,000 people
carpenters, civil engineers,
now in 2017 and
actually fixed this
that we need from our young people
answer is no,
is no.
is no. Just last week we had another
sector, the service sector, they
came and launched a report here in parliament and they told us that in
three years, by 2020, they predict that in three
200,000 trained people, 200,000 new jobs. That's great!
jobs. But they
Speaker, they
I am too.
When we have over 90,000 young people under the age of 24
people under the age of 24, the
of Palmerston North, that's
effectively the city of Palmerston
North not trained. That is an issue. When we have a Government
that
not even
not even willing to
select committee and listen, have a
conversation about why is it that
people, we have a problem. The bill
based on
which we
programme that
Mr Speaker, I do not see the sense in why
in why we don't even agree, why the
that we should
committee and
about what we should be doing to
ensure that many more of our
people are skilled and trained. That many more of
our young people aren't falling through
from the compulsory sector
to tertiary
apprentices and
employment. This
agree to. We need more of our young people to be trained.
of our
of our young people, especially those who
by this
by this National Government, to ensure that they
get in to some training, that they
employed, and what this bill propose, Mr Speaker, is
solutions. It is a step in the right
direction and it would be a shame that the National Party
with not
that Darroch
Thank you, Mr Speaker. Well, when I was listening to
this debate from the member sponsoring the bill,
little bit like I was sitting in a silversmith's workshop watching a
craftsman with his
Zealand's not in employment or training young people.