Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a real pleasure to stand here today and first and foremost to acknowledge my colleague and friend Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki. Mālō 'aupito. Mālō 'aupito for the work that you have done to bring this bill the District Court (Protection of Judgment Debtors with Disabilities) Amendment Bill to the House. This bill spanned across the 52nd and the 53rd Parliaments and as a consequence it's been a long time coming—for something that is relatively simple but something that is incredibly meaningful. So I do want to acknowledge you and I also want to acknowledge the emotion that you brought to this House today. It made us all feel so very very proud of you and proud of this issue being brought to the House. So thank you my friend.I'd also like to make a quick acknowledgment to the Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO) and the officials that supported and assisted this bill. As we all know here a member's bill is a slightly different process and so the support and help that the PCO and officials gave was something that I think is really important to note. I'd also like to note for the thousands of people out there listening tonight that there is one in four people affected or 24 percent or 1.1 million people with a disability in this country and 14 percent of those people have a physical impairment that limits them in their day-to-day or everyday activities. So while this is a small piece of legislation it can have quite a huge impact across the disability community. I want to acknowledge as well each and every one of us here. We know people and have friends and family that are affected or could be affected by this legislation and so my friend I thank you for that.This bill protects disabled people from having their goods which are necessary for their care support or independence seized. I cannot imagine what it would have been like for your constituent when he lost his mobility vehicle because he was unable to pay his debts. I cannot imagine what that sense of helplessness and hopelessness must have been at that time and in fact we know that your constituent ended up in hospital in ICU because he was no longer mobile and able to get to his doctors appointments. That's the kind of thing that we as a country should not allow to happen and that's why I am delighted that there has been this change to ensure that that doesn't happen.I'm also really pleased and I am going to take the opportunity to read out the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities definition that is now here in this bill and I think it is really important to read this again so that people are aware of the broadening of the definition: Disabled person includes a person who has long-term physical mental intellectual or sensory impairments that in interactions with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others". The extension of that definition therefore doesn't just talk about people with a physical impairment; it talks about the broadening and the wider and so that is why it's important to have that equipment recorded in this bill. It means that someone who is using a cell phone—or in my nana's circumstances she was legally blind; she had a system where she would have talking books played. The loss of her talking books would have been tremendously negative on her as a woman trying to enjoy her life as we all hope we should be able to do.Look I've come now to the end of my short five minutes. I would just like to commend this bill to the House and thank the member."