Coffey TāmatiTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. I'm very pleased actually to be standing here and contributing to the summation of what's been a journey for this bill the District Court (Protection of Judgment Debtors with Disabilities) Amendment Bill on its way through Parliament.Can I note the collaboration that's been involved because this stuff doesn't happen by itself. There is a select committee process that needs to happen there are officials that need to be appointed and I know for a fact that we have our officials out the back and they are a mixture of people from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Justice and they have worked diligently on making sure that this is the best piece of legislation that we can be putting through. It's not part of the work programme of the Government but this is what members' bills are all about. Members' bills are about opportunities for us as non-executive members to be able to bring something forward and put it on the agenda albeit via a lucky dip ballot box. But that's the process that we have and that's what's happened right here: the collaboration from the officials but also from all of those members of the Justice Committee who took the bill saw the bill considered the bill listened to all of the submitters that came forward that were relevant to this debate and came to a consensus together without too much compromise about trying to sort out an issue that had come before my colleague Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki. That kind of harmony where everybody agrees on a committee is rare in this place so it needs to be acknowledged when it actually does happen. And it's happened on this particular take.Can I acknowledge the disabled community out there across Aotearoa who were part of this consideration as well. You don't know about being disabled until you are landed in a wheelchair or you have something that affects your own abilities. I remember actually—the Minister for Disability Issues is here in the House—the Hon Carmel Sepuloni when she did a bit of an experience and she stepped into the shoes of our disabled community not long ago a couple of years ago and put herself into a wheelchair and got herself around our Parliament and realised just how inaccessible our Parliament is to those people that are in wheelchairs. You're presented as you walk into Parliament between the foyer and heading up to select committee rooms with the stairs there. You have to go the long way and this is what disabled people have to do and have to build into their lives. They go the long way; they make those concessions because it's what they have do. So can I acknowledge the disabled community who have been part of this conversation. Their motto which is Nothing about us without us" continues to ring in my mind and I've heard this adopted by Māori communities by rainbow communities by any kind of minority group that looks to get a say in the policies that affect them. And that's what happened on this particular occasion.When I tell the whānau back home what this bill is about I say that it's about doing what we can to protect our disabled whānau and their caregivers when the debt collectors come knocking. That's what I say and they get it really simply because that's essentially what it is. Anything that we can put in place to be able to protect our disabled whānau and their caregivers has to be acknowledged and that's what we're doing here today. Previous speakers before me have gone through the nuts and bolts of this bill and I want to thank them for that; so I'm not going to delve into that kind of detail.It's safe to say I just want to finish by acknowledging the hard work that's gone on from my colleague to the right of me over here. Anahila is a hard-working Labour—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order!TĀMATI COFFEY: Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki is a hard-working Labour Party MP. She is a worker for the labour movement and has been all of her life. And can I note this as well before I sit down: last night I left this building at 11.30 p.m. after having done my readings after having got through a bunch of emails after doing the kind of stuff that we all normally do in this House. At 11.30 as I walked out the door I saw peeped into my neighbour's office and she was still there in her office preparing for today. Today is a very big day. It's a very special day for her. This is the third reading of her member's bill and I want to congratulate her for bringing it to the House for ushering it through the select committee process and for bringing us all together today for the benefit of a constituent that came forward and asked for his rights to be looked after and represented. I commend it to the House."