Williams PotoPOTO WILLIAMS (Labour—Christchurch East): I rise to take a short call on the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Act Repeal Bill. I do want to put on record a little bit of the whakapapa of the foundation in this last reading—my last opportunity to do so.We know that the foundation actually began its days in 1890 as the Jubilee Institute for the Blind in those lovely buildings in Parnell. In its early days it provided sheltered workshops and was also a hostel for people with serious vision impairment. These days of course the definition of blind and low vision impairment has meant that there is a greater catchment of people that the foundation actually serves. It phased out a lot of the work that it was doing around the sheltered workshops and was in favour of mainstreaming so that people with low vision and blindness could actually get a greater sense of integration into their community. Then in 2002 I believe the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Act was instigated and this allowed the foundation to become an incorporated society which it did do in January 2012. Then of course the need for this particular legislation was no longer required and that is why we are now in the process of repealing that particular piece of legislation.Along its journey the foundation which is now called the Blind Foundation has had a really strong kaupapa of being membership driven—it is about its membership—to the extent that every single member of its board of directors is either blind or has vision impairment. They really understand and are able to put in place services and programmes applicable for their membership. It has been something that I have been quite struck with because they are so strongly encouraging of people who have low vision and vision impairment to be integrated in the community. The foundation has been a role model really to other disability organisations given its length of time in the work and the fact that it is so strongly driven by its members.Today we know that it offers a range of services. It offers services around ensuring that people with low vision can communicate with other members of the wider community and amongst themselves. It offers counselling supported employment and financial assistance. We know that it offers mobility assistance and we all know of course the guide dogs. The other pieces of—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order! I am going to interrupt the member and remind her that we are on the third reading of the bill. All that can be discussed is the bill as it emerged from the Committee of the whole House. You can make an odd passing reference but actually you cannot get a bill much narrower than this. Although the history of the foundation has been given in the second reading and in the first reading and its general work all of that was relevant then; it is not relevant now. I just will remind members that there is no obligation to use the full 10 minutes.POTO WILLIAMS: Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. I welcome your guidance. Obviously there were limited submissions and the only one came from the foundation itself. The foundation of course is very grateful that this bill will now go through the House. It will allow it and its governance structure to continue the work of the Blind Foundation including work in advocacy for people with blindness issues. If I could just make one plug one of the board members was actually talking about the discussion around the Marrakesh VIP Treaty and wanted to ensure that this Government signed up to the treaty—which it has done—to ensure that we get access to suitable content for people with blindness and vision impairment. On that note I commend the bill to the House.