SpeechANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI (Labour): Kia orana Vaa Tuatua. It's an honour and a privilege to make a contribution to the Accessibility for New Zealanders Bill. First of all I would like to acknowledge the leadership of Minister Carmel Sepuloni who has done most of the work to set up the Whaikaha—the Ministry of Disabled People—and of course I also acknowledge the leadership of the Hon Poto Williams who has now got the ball and is running with it. I want to acknowledge the leadership of the House in terms of that.In terms of the Office for Disability Issues they describe the community as—and I want to quote—We are children young people adults. … we are parents and grandparents. We also are friends … and whānau. What we want is no different to anyone else in New Zealand;". That's the description provided by the disabled community and that's the description that they provide within the Office for Disability Issues.My brother Paul is 36. Paul has mild autism and developmental delay. Paul is a supervisor in charge of screen printing and gardening and leading and training others like him at Spectrum Care vocational services. The funding for the care and support of Paul is by Taikura services. Paul wants to drive a car. He wants to drive a car but he can never ever get a driver's licence although I think that for people like my brother Paul if the technology enables it to be a gain then surely he can get a driver's licence. But he can't do that so Paul is supported by my sister Ivanaka who does everything that I should be doing. He is supported at home. Though my mum has passed away Paul is supported to remain there with my nephew Lenny his wife Anna and also my older brother.What I'm trying to say is that the description of the community about themselves is actually what I've just described: a group of people who support this to happen. The Minister talked to us in the spirit of "Nothing about us without us"—that is the spirit of this bill and if my memory serves me right in the New Zealand Disability Strategy 2016-2026 and the Disability Action Plan 2019-2023 it talks about accountability mechanisms and it also talks about cross-cutting issues such as disability data. We know that it's difficult to find data and how that's recorded but I know through the select committee process until May next year—May next year—we will hear from the community about this. Today I want to urge people like my family who never submit a submission to select committee to take this opportunity until May to put a collective submission in on how a family supports their family member—for my brother Paul to catch the bus to work. If I had my way I would actually want Paul to sit his driver's licence and see if he can do it but I know that my family would never allow that because they still believe that he can't do that.Today we've heard from the Minister about setting up an Accessibility Committee to hear from them and accountability in terms of reviewing this bill once it becomes an Act in five years' time so that it can come back to this House and of course have access to the Minister. Reports will come to the Minister to address those and to remove those barriers that we as able-bodied people have made decisions to put there.I want to acknowledge the Minister and the work that has been done but I want to urge people out there: please one in every four New Zealanders has a disability—please make a submission to the select committee. I'm honoured to be a member of the select committee. We will be there. We will move around New Zealand as the leadership of the Minister has directed us to do and we will do that.So please do make a submission. I know that my brother Paul probably won't be able to write one but my family can help him write one and present that to the select committee. So in light of that in the spirit of "Nothing about us without us" it's about us: if our family member is unable to do it we will be coming together as a family and making that submission. I commend this bill to the House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): I call Nicola Grigg—five minutes."