I want to acknowledge the Minister of Education is in the chair, and I thank him for being here this afternoon. I don't criticise him for the fact that he hasn't taken a call yet, because I believe that he's probably been showing other members some respect and hearing some of the concerns. But I hope he will take a call fairly soon and frequently during the afternoon, because a number of different matters have been raised with him. I in particular would like to put a few questions to him at the outset, because I focused in the second reading debate last week on some of the major concerns that we've heard, particularly from the Tertiary Education Commission and from Treasury, and I do believe that the Minister needs to respond to them. 