The ministry presented their final departmental report to us on 15 December 2021. I want to thank the ministry for their support and advice because they provided that important context that the submitters' experiences were occurring within, and also, the work that was already under way. From the figures we were presented with, it was clear that attendance rates held largely steady from 2011 to 2015 before they started to decline. The decline can be seen across all ethnicities. However, it's greater for Māori and Pacific students and is most heavily felt in our lower-decile schools. We said in our report that while societal causes for non-attendance cannot be solved by the education sector alone, it's worth discussing what the sector can do and what they are already doing. So our report recommended the continuation of the Ka Ora, Ka Ako/Healthy School Lunches Programme—something that Ngāpuhi iwi social services mentioned was a contributing factor to seeing returns to school. Boyd Swinburn, professor at the University of Auckland, was in full support of the programme, calling it the biggest child-nutrition intervention, by far, in decades. 