I do want to acknowledge and join everyone else with acknowledging the incredible work that our ECE sector does. They do an incredible job teaching our tamariki. The first years in a child's life are so important and set our children up for educational success. The future of our physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development is profoundly affected by our early experiences. At the heart of those experiences are the relationships children form with their parents and, of course, with their teachers, and ensuring that those teachers are paid properly is really, really important. 