Hon JAN TINETTI (Associate Minister of Education): Yesterday, I announced that 141 primary, intermediate, and small secondary schools throughout Aotearoa now have access to counsellors. This is the first time in New Zealand counsellors have ever been centrally-funded in schools for this age group. The primary school allocation is in addition to the additional $31.8 million that was allocated to larger secondary schools from January this year. That equates to 90 full-time teacher equivalent additional counselling staff across the country. Thanks to the $75.8 million worth of investment made by this Labour Government, a further 24,000 young people now have access to counselling support at school.