PENNY SIMMONDS (National—Invercargill): Thank you, Madam Chair. I wonder if the Minister could give us a bit of a general overview, an introduction to the legislation. Because during the submissions we had quite a lot of concern, particularly around the early childhood education (ECE) work—it was a solution looking for a problem, when in fact there are a number of real problems in the ECE sector. And so I'm interested to hear from the Minister how he thinks this legislation might help some of those real problems, like child-to-teacher ratios, there's major issues there; pay parity, where the Government has actually caused more harm than good; quality assurance—spot checks are not occurring regularly; high costs to parents, and certainly in these times of inflation and the cost of living crisis, that's particularly relevant. The administrative burden on teachers and centre managers; the restrictions on the use of the six-hours per day skill shortages; and the disparate issues around being able to access qualified teachers and many simply burning out and leaving.