Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Education): In answer to the member's question, the Government has set out to the sector that we intend to implement pay parity in a stepped way, and that is through instalments, if you like. This year's Budget provided funding for the second instalment. Last year's Budget lifted the minimum rates of pay out to the equivalent of the kindergarten teachers' collective agreement or the kindergarten teachers' pay scale; this year's Budget maintains that minimum rate of pay—so created a smaller increment to keep up with the increase in kindergarten teachers' pay and started to step further up the pay scale, up to step six on the pay scale; it is about a 10-step scale.