Today is a very big day for vocational education and training in New Zealand. Today is the day we start to bring our vocational education and training systems back together, where we create a unified nationally consistent system of vocational education and training that will meet the needs of New Zealanders. It will meet the needs of New Zealand employers. It will ensure that we can plug the very serious skill shortages that we have in New Zealand and that we can rise to the challenges of the future.