Luxton JoJO LUXTON (Labour): Kia orana Mr Speaker. I'm absolutely thrilled—absolutely thrilled—to stand here and take a call on this Copyright (Marrakesh Treaty Implementation) Amendment Bill. This is one of those pieces of legislation that is going to have real and tangible benefits for people around New Zealand. We've heard tonight that what it does is it amends the Copyright Act to allow New Zealand to accede to the Marrakesh Treaty bill and as Jonathan Young mentioned last night in his contribution during the committee stage actually this is about access. I would just like to take the opportunity now just to acknowledge Jonathan Young and his chairing of the select committee and other members—Marja Lubeck: Gold star.JO LUXTON: —have said—gold star. And as other members have said it's been a really collegial process. This is as I've said one of those pieces of legislation that is a real feel-good piece of legislation. What it does is it allows access to published materials for people who are visually impaired and that can be through Braille things like Braille large print or audio—Melissa Lee: Books.JO LUXTON: —audio books thank you. And we've heard also that it affects around 168000 New Zealanders. That is a lot of New Zealanders. We've also heard that less than 10 percent of published works are published in accessible format. What this piece of legislation also does besides creating access is it breaks down barriers for people. It provides equitable opportunities for people to participate in work and in education. We've had some discussion around universities and what this process has done for me is it's actually highlighted just how much I take for granted or perhaps we take for granted putting aside what Minister Martin said about young people because that's again something I hadn't actually thought of. I've thought about as an adult myself or as an older student going into university—I can sit I can read I can get my textbooks on time and I just want to talk about one particular submitter who really touched me. Her name was Helena. She was an extremely articulate bright intelligent young woman who had studied and graduated. I can't recall what she had studied but she'd graduated and she talked about the biggest barrier for her being the accessibility to accessible formats. She had to wait had to do the commercial availability test or she had to wait till she got her textbooks and often that was just prior to her work being due. Then she had to take the time to absorb the material understand the material and then submit her work. She said she really wants to go on and do her Master's but the barrier for her and the thing that turned her off potentially going and furthering her education was the accessibility to materials in an accessible format.We have touched on the commercial availability test and we know that there was some concern from publishers and copyright groups but as the Minister Minister Faafoi said earlier some of their issues will probably likely be addressed within the Copyright Act review which is under way now. We note that most other countries that have signed up to the Marrakesh Treaty don't actually have the commercial availability test. So whilst we were sympathetic to the view that they felt that perhaps they might miss out on some revenue or copies might be made by all sorts of people we do note the fact that to create an accessible format is highly highly expensive and therefore very very unlikely that people would go about willy-nilly making additional formats. So that was one of the reasons. The biggest reason that we decided not to do the commercial availability or to leave the commercial availability test out was so that people could get access to the work that they needed in an appropriate and timely manner. I just want to finish off by something from the Blind Foundation. They said Our vision is a life without limits." and I believe this piece of legislation goes a long way towards that."