Hon AUPITO WILLIAM SIO: Meitaki maata e te Vaa Tuatua. A 2019 report on Pacific bilingual education highlighted that the New Zealand school roll is more ethnically diverse than it has ever been, and there are now more Pacific students at school when compared with the Pacific population in Aotearoa. As of 2018, about 79,000 students identified themselves as Pacific, or nearly 11 percent of the national school roll. A bilingual teacher in that same 2019 report captured the work of Government well when they said, referring to Pacific languages and cultures, "If you know from where you come, there is no limit to where you can go. If learners can connect and know who they are and celebrate those things that make them unique, then we have a better chance to raise the achievement levels referring to Pacific languages skills and cultural intelligence."