SIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): Thank you, Mr Speaker, for the opportunity to take a call on this terrible piece of legislation, the Education and Training (Teaching Council Fees and Costs) Amendment Bill. Members on the other side who are getting up and saying how proud they are—I heard Jamie Strange from Hamilton saying this is an elegant solution, an elegant solution, to be passing retrospective legislation to impose a tax, an unlawful tax, on to teachers. The High Court ruling said that the Teaching Council decision to set a fee for issuing a practising certificate amounted to an unlawful tax. They should be hanging their heads in shame, but no. They come into this House and they call this an "elegant solution". Hear Jamie Strange—how proud he is of his Minister to be introducing retrospective legislation. This legislation is retrospective. This legislation is, basically, trying to turn back the tide—turn back the tide—on a case which the Teaching Council has lost.