Grigg NicolaNICOLA GRIGG (National—Selwyn): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's with great pleasure that I rise to just take a quick in support of the Accessibility for New Zealanders Bill. I'm actually sitting here feeling quite remiss that I wasn't aware that a quarter of New Zealanders live with a form of disability through my own naivety I suppose and so I've been quite taken aback by the statistics that we've been presented with today. I do believe that the sheer number of New Zealanders and the sheer complexity of the various forms of disability they live with should be reason enough for the Government to present a bill like this to the House today.We do support this bill but with some reservations I think as has been well canvassed by other members across the House this afternoon. We cannot emphasise enough how important it's going to be for the Social Services and Community Committee to roadshow this to take it out across the country to actually practise what they preach and make themselves accessible to the people of New Zealand to hear submissions from user groups and stakeholders and those who certainly will be impacted. We at this stage from what we've seen of the draft—sorry of the bill that's been presented—don't think it goes far enough. It does obviously provide a legislative framework to address what some might describe as systemic disability barriers and a lot of other people have gone through those today particularly around public buildings and spaces and transport. But there's also things like services particularly health services technology websites applications and communications barriers.Ironically at the weekend I was attending a future forum for young people up here in Wellington and had a young deaf woman come up to me with a draft idea for a petition. It was to ask the Government to look at making closed captions or the words that we see on the screen just above me available across all channels and across all programmes. I do hope that she now sees this bill and makes a submission on it and asks the Government to consider ideas like that which would be life-enhancing for people like her. We do understand that this framework will reflect and align with the United Nations and other international organisations to address those systemic accessibility barriers and we do obviously support that. It's good to see that this legislation will be overseen by the newly formed ministry and we do hope that it does form a close alliance for want of a better word with the Access Alliance because that is the one group that has really clearly to me spent many many years in an activation space and an activist space and I think that without their work I doubt that we'd be seeing this bill here in front of us today. It's been five years of work.I note that in 2017 when this Government first formed a Government that was when the impetus really started to occur. Again I note that it has taken five years to get this in front of the House today. But we do join other calls in encouraging groups and people from across New Zealand to get in front of that select committee and to help shape legislation that they've been advocating for for decades and again on my learning journey just this afternoon I've heard about the impacts on some people. In everyday life for me I take no notice of potholes in footpaths and I take no notice that my voting information pack doesn't come in Braille or in another language or any other form. I take no notice when there's concrete blocks. I suppose having come from Christchurch I'm used to broken footpaths and potholed roads and buildings crumbling down all around me. But also there are things like hospital access. There's one example here: for a blind person to be able to read all the preoperative procedures and safety protocols was actually literally impossible for them.So this is a very lofty goal. We do support it. We would like to see more focus on regulation being included in here. We don't like the idea that this does feel very much like an announcement of an announcement but we do very much encourage New Zealanders to get involved and to help shape this so that it is of use to them and their lives. Thank you Mr Speaker.