Menéndez March RicardoRICARDO MENÉNDEZ MARCH (Green): Tēnā koe Madam Chair. It's really nice to be joining you in the House rushing in from the launch of a report actually called Safe Start. Fair Future. Refugee Equality which outlines some of the barriers that asylum seekers and conventional refugees face. I was really struck by a line from the Associate Minister from that event who talked about how everybody should have equal access to human rights.So I wanted to ask about the acceptable standard of health policy which discriminates towards disabled people and ask about the application under the period that we've reviewed. I wanted to get an understanding from the Minister whether that policy has been applied to convention refugees; if so how? I wanted to also understand whether trans people are being subjected to this policy and potentially facing barriers to access their visa due to perhaps immigration officials assuming that they may want specific medical procedures which may have a cost. I wanted to also understand what barriers asylum seekers may currently be facing or what feedback the Minister's received from asylum seekers around the challenges they may face in accessing Government support. Because one of the things that we heard during this launch is that for example people are struggling to access adequate support from Work and Income that they're legally entitled to.So in light of the comments by the Associate Minister I'd be keen to understand as well whether he's got any intentions in the current review of the acceptable standard of health policy to ensure that disabled people are part of that review.Just moving on to a separate topic I would be interested in understanding what he expects the future to be for people who have missed out on the resident 2021 visa (R21) visa. Currently we do have a large number of Indian and Filipino nationals who are earning below 200 percent of the median wage and 150 percent of the median wage. So while we have heard time and time again that people will have a pathway outside of the R21 visa currently it feels like many people will not have any pathways. In light of the well-reported wage gap amongst our different ethnic communities I am particularly concerned that the current processes that have been put in place with the accreditation scheme may end up disadvantaging groups that are already affected by a wage gap. So I would be keen to understand: what are his plans to ensure that migrants have realistic pathways to residency?I'm also interested in his views around the fate of migrants who have been stuck offshore throughout the pandemic. We heard from officials that some of these workers could end up having a pathway to come back if they find employment. But the reality is that many of these groups who are stuck offshore because of the border closures currently have no job—some of them their visas have expired. So I would be keen to understand what he sees the futures for these migrants to be. Should they just go on another pathway that has no guarantee? I'm also interested to get a sense of whether the prospect of replacement visas were ever considered particularly in light of the fact that visas for almost 20000 working holiday visa holders were renewed. I'm interested to know what levers were used to activate that renewal and whether there would be more consistency in ensuring that people who previously held a visa and were affected by the border closure have a pathway to come back.