Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: Vocational education and training has long been undervalued in our education system. In fact—and those areas are covered by this funding—we are often talking about the areas of skill shortages that are the most acute here in New Zealand. Making sure that we make the economics of those programmes stack up and recruit more people into those training areas will go a long way to helping New Zealand rebuild from COVID-19 by tackling the critical skill shortages that have been holding us back.