Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Education): Thank you, Mr Speaker. Yes, and can I acknowledge teachers and school and early childhood centre leaders up and down the country who have once again gone to extraordinary lengths to support our young people to learn from home, often whilst dealing with significant disruption in their own lives, recognising that some of our teachers will be home-schooling their own children at the same time as home-schooling the children of others. In 2020, we provided over 36,000 fit-for-education devices for years 9 to 13 learners. That met all of the known needs of those students at the time, but new demand, of course, has emerged since, particularly with a new year 9 intake in 2021. So we provided additional funding in response to the Delta outbreak, and by Tuesday the ministry had shipped nearly 7,000 more devices to schools and learners affected by COVID-19. The ministry held in contingency a supply of approximately 135,000 hard packs of learning materials, appropriate for learners across a range of ages and settings. As of Tuesday, 48,000 of these had been distributed, and the ministry is also printing new material which will be available for distribution by the end of next week. The learning from home TV station was also stood up again within days of the current outbreak emerging.