Prime Willow-JeanWILLOW-JEAN PRIME (Labour—Northland): [Uses sign language] Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise to take a short call this afternoon on the District Court (Protection of Judgment Debtors with Disabilities) Amendment Bill. I just want to start by acknowledging my colleague Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki and thanking the member for bringing this member's bill to the House in response to an issue which happened in her rohe in her area of Papakura—of South Auckland. I wasn't involved in the first reading of this debate so I went back and I traversed the Hansard. It was really interesting to read the situation which brought about the action that the member took in bringing the member's bill to the House. I just want to acknowledge Mr Tanginoa for his courage to share his story and his experience in the hope that it would not happen to somebody else and also too Mr Soane Foliaki who was the lawyer and worked for—or maybe volunteered for—the community law centre in Papakura.For those listening in tonight I just wanted to take out a part of the member's first speech on this where it talked about what had happened in Mr Tanginoa's case where he—unknown to him—had actually incurred rent debt to the amount of $5117. His landlord had taken that to court to get recompense for it and an order was given. What happened in his case was his modified mobility vehicle was seized—first it was clamped and then it was seized. What happened also in his situation is that his health deteriorated and because he didn't have access to that vehicle he actually ended up in intensive care in Auckland hospital and was in a very precarious situation. It's just fortunate that he survived the ordeal.While this is what might seem to some people a minor amendment that we're making here to the legislation it actually really does impact people's lives and that's what we heard from the submitters who made strong submissions. And I really want to acknowledge our select committee for the very thorough process that we went through. For parts of that I actually subbed the member out so she could come over from the Environment Committee and sit in front of the Justice Committee so I didn't hear the entire process but I did hear a good lot of it.In terms of the submissions we had 21 submissions and eight submitters gave oral evidence. I did just want to also acknowledge one of the contributions from the member Greg O'Connor—oh you're in the House tonight Greg—where he actually talked about—[Interruption] Sorry; I didn't expect him to be here as I was speaking about this. [Interruption] I know right? And happy birthday by the way. Happy birthday Greg. In his contribution in the first reading of this he said that often for the people who are employed to be bailiffs it's a job; it's about putting food on the table for their families. It's a difficult job to do. I'm sure there's not a lot of feel-good in it. The way the law currently is—which we are seeking to change—it requires them to use their judgment and their discretion and I think that that's a really unfair burden to put on them in what is already a difficult job. Really the hope is that with the amendments to this bill we make it explicitly clear so that they don't have to exercise that good judgment around what things they can and can't take in order to satisfy these orders. I do really want to acknowledge those people who do that work and I hope that this bill is going to also help you do your job better and make it an easier job to do and also protect the people who we have spoken so much about tonight. So I just want to thank the committee I want to thank the member and I want to commend the bill to the House.