Macindoe TimHon TIM MACINDOE (National—Hamilton West): The member's quite a bright spark. I'm very pleased to follow my colleague Jamie Strange from Hamilton and I commend him on that very constructive speech. I also want to congratulate him on completing his audition for the role of John the Baptist. I'm wondering if that means that he'd like us to deliver his head on a platter in the election in Hamilton next year but actually I want to assure him I don't wish him any such sinister fate. If he however does decide to do that perhaps he might revert to the hairstyle that is now going viral on Facebook that he had 23 years ago when he and his lovely wife got engaged. I wish them both a very happy anniversary for the other day and if you haven't seen the photograph on Facebook members I do commend it to you for a little bit of light-hearted entertainment. I'm the final National speaker in this debate so I won't take a full call but I would like to make a few points on this Election Access Fund Bill in its second reading. Of course the first thing is to congratulate Chlöe Swarbrick on having the bill drawn. As I mentioned to her a few moments ago she's been here for two years and has hit the jackpot almost immediately. I've now been here for 11 years. I think I've had at least five members' bills in the ballot over that time and I've yet to have a single one drawn and I'm getting pretty frustrated. I have lodged a beauty in the ballot this week so I'm hoping there will be a draw tomorrow. It's the Concealment of Location of Victim Remains Bill and it's one that just deals with the anguish that families suffer if the location of the remains of their victims is not identified by the offender. So it's one that I hope will attract cross-party support. I'm aiming to ensure that people who add to the anguish of families in those circumstances will be denied parole. But anyway I can come back to that if it gets drawn. Now to turn my attention to Ms Swarbrick's bill which as she and others have noted was originally drafted by our former parliamentary colleague Mojo Mathers. I'm sure that Mojo will be watching the debate today so I want to congratulate her. I know that she'll be delighted to see the cross-party support that this measure is receiving and I think it's particularly appropriate that we're having this debate today while it's also being interpreted for members of our Deaf community by the very skilled sign language interpreters who work in the Parliament. That means that they'll be broadcasting all around the nation to people who are watching and I send my aroha to all members of our Deaf community. I congratulate them too but also of course everybody who lives with a disability and not just those who struggle to hear. It is of course a significant achievement to draft a member's bill and in particular to steer it successfully—as this one inevitably will be—to its conclusion so that it becomes enacted and therefore both Mojo and Chlöe Swarbrick deserve our congratulations for that. As I say I've yet to have the joy of doing that but I guess that's the curse of being a dysfunctional geriatric as I was described so charitably this morning by a man who I think is at least 15 years older than me. But anyway I'll carry on and we'll see. Maybe I'll need to be as old as he is before I actually get my own bill drawn—who knows? Madam Speaker there's an old political mantra that I feel sure you'll have heard and that many members will be aware of and it goes No taxation without representation". I think that particular maxim dates back to the time of the American Declaration of Independence. In the modern context I think that members of our very large and diverse communities of people who live with disabilities might assert "No representation without participation" because those of us who have always enjoyed the good fortune of being able-bodied—and I hope also able-minded but I'll let others be the judge of that—cannot fully understand the challenges that people with disabilities face every day no matter how close we are to them and how attentive we may try to be to their needs and interests. I'm sure that most members of Parliament do go out of their way to try as empathetic and supportive of people with disabilities but we've heard a number of members speak today about different things and I too have to admit that my electorate office is not well suited for people with disabilities. It does worry me. It's why I will always go to see constituents with disabilities but I'm aware of the fact that some people just arrive at our door and if they can't get up to the office that is a problem. Unfortunately there is no lift in the building. It's something I hope to rectify. I don't own the building and so I can't rectify that but it's something I am very mindful of should I be re-elected at some later stage. It is one of the reasons why I've done everything that I can particularly in recent years in my city of Hamilton to support and encourage three young people each with different disabilities to stand as candidates in our local body elections. All of them did so either in 2016 or just recently—in October—with considerable energy and determination and I was hugely impressed by their efforts because I could see the extra effort that was required for them. In one case I'm talking about a young man—and I won't embarrass him by naming him—with a number of different disabilities who nevertheless I think would make an outstanding contribution probably in the district health board space. Hamilton didn't have an election for that particular role this year so he's going to have to wait for another three years but I'd love to see him be successful and I'll do what I can to help him. As I say they show huge character and huge determination and I have enormous admiration for them. I'm sorry that they haven't been successful yet but I'm sure that if they persevere one day they will and no one will be more delighted than me when they are. Similarly I do hope that we will see others follow in Mojo's footsteps by entering this Chamber as MPs. I also hope—as I think one previous speaker noted today—that it won't be long before that includes someone or perhaps several people who live their lives in wheelchairs who are also sworn in as members of this House. I trust that we as members and that those who ensure that the facilities are appropriate for those working within the Parliamentary Service will do everything they can to help them to overcome those physical barriers and any other challenges that they may face and even more importantly to ensure that they are able to be heard with respect and enabled to make full and positive contributions to effect public policy and good governance in our land. So with those thoughts I can only conclude by saying that this is a very good bill and I and all members on this side of the House are very pleased to support it."