SpeechTERISA NGOBI (Labour—Ōtaki): Kia orana and meitaki maata Vaa Tuatua and happy Kūki 'Āirani or Cook Islands Language Week. As always it's an honour and a privilege to take a call in the House as the member of Parliament for the Ōtaki electorate—or the beautiful Ōtaki electorate I should say—but also as a member of the Social Services and Community Committee who will be working through this Accessibility for New Zealanders Bill in its first reading. Can I mihi and acknowledge first Minister Sepuloni and the officials who have done lots of mahi in the last five years leading up to this bill but of course also the Hon Poto Williams and the officials for championing this bill through the House.Today is a good day—despite what you might hear from some of the Opposition today is a really good day. We get to introduce this legislation that is going to mean accessibility for all. As the Minister said earlier this bill will improve the accessibility and actually the lives of those with disability—tāngata whaikaha—and their whānau and actually all others that have disability needs. This bill will address barriers like communications or getting or receiving information education and employment opportunities and accessibility to public facilities for many for whom this currently is a barrier.Further this bill establishes an Accessibility Committee which I'm really excited about. It's going to be led by tāngata whaikaha our disability communities and so we know that we're going to get authentic voices from people with lived experiences and their whānau as well. This Accessibility Committee will make recommendations directly to the Minister for Disability Issues and it is critical that we receive that guidance and information from people like I said who have true lived experiences with accessibility issues and disability issues.On that note I would also like my colleague Anahila encourage the disability community or tāngata whaikaha and their whānau and our community actually—those awesome people like the Mana electorate that my colleague Barb was talking about. We in the Ōtaki electorate also have really great NGOs and community groups that work with people with disabilities. I have also worked in the disability sector for about 12 years here and in London and can say that people have been calling for this for a long time. So it's really good that this is a time that you can have your voice and make sure that you submit on this bill. Your voice and your experience is really critical to this.I will also be encouraging my friends and my whānau—and other people have talked about their personal experiences. I have my nephew Rawiri from the awesome Ōtaki electorate and his supporting whānau my awesome auntie or his nana Mabel Tasker and my awesome uncle or his poppa Roy Freegard. I'm going to talk to them about making sure that they submit on this bill and tell us about the accessibility issues that Rawiri has faced. Rawiri also has spina bifida and he is in a wheelchair. He's a young Pacific-Chinese-Māori rangatahi so the ACT member will be pleased to hear that when they submit they will cover off some more of those diverse communities that you wanted. He's also a really awesome representation of not just our whānau but also the Ōtaki electorate in terms of he plays wheelchair basketball at a high level and he also swims at a really high level. But of course we know that that will come with accessibility issues as well; not just the fact that he is in a wheelchair but that he is playing at a high level of sport. So it would be really cool to get his real lived experience around what that means but also Nana Mabel's and Poppa Roy's experience of what that means in terms of whānau and what that means in terms of making sure that they get through some of those barriers in terms of the accessibility issues. But also I'm quite sure that they're a really resilient whānau and so is Rawiri and they will have some really cool solutions I think too that they will be able to talk to us in the select committee about as well.I'm also really pleased and heartened to hear the Minister talk about making sure that she'll be seeking a longer period for the select committee. This is such a critical issues to be able to seek submissions on. I also look forward to going out to our communities to make sure that we get that real authentic voice. This is a great day and I am very much looking forward to hearing submissions in the select committee.