Meager JamesJAMES MEAGER (National—Rangitata): Mr Speaker thank you very much. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Teanau Tuiono): Happy birthday.JAMES MEAGER: Thank you Mr Speaker. Can I acknowledge all the well-wishers today—that's probably about enough joy to be spread my way. I'd just like to spread a bit of joy to some of my friends who share a birthday today as well: to Jamie and James who are mini-mes—sons of colleagues of mine who share my birthday—Richard Menzi; Charles Hendy; Ollie Newton who I went to university with; and my high school science teacher Ian Willis; and Tim Costley's sister—happy birthday to you all. What a great day—what a great day it is.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Teanau Tuiono): Something was in the water that year!JAMES MEAGER: And I hear there's an impromptu happy birthday later on.But this is a good solid bill supported across the House. It is traditional to thank the Justice Committee members for their hard work on this bill so once again I'd just like to reiterate my thanks to Dr Webb the Labour Greens Te Pāti Māori members for their constant constructive and supportive work on the Justice Committee and also to colleagues on the Government's side. Can I thank the 16 I think submitters who made written submissions and the four who presented to us orally. Such is the nature of this bill that everyone was in favour and it is one which is well-supported across the House. So can I just acknowledge the work of the justice officials across both parliaments who have worked on this bill also.The bill does a couple of simple things: it continues a series of Government initiatives to try and modernise and speed up the court system because as the saying goes justice delayed is justice denied. And one of the big issues we have in our justice sector is the delays felt through the court system. So this will go one small way to doing that so I congratulate the Minister for bringing the bill through the House. The other way that we will be achieving this is through Te Au Reka which is the court's digitising system and the Justice Committee has an open briefing on that that we are going to be following as part of our own scrutiny plans.Just finally I'd like to touch on the fact that the bill has gone through without changes. It's very difficult as the chair of a committee whose job it is to outline to the House the changes and the additions that were made to a bill when it comes back without any amendments. So I'll do my best just to briefly touch on some of the other submissions made by contributors. People did raise some concerns around the ability to roll this out across different courts and some of the resourcing that would be required. Some submitters said it didn't go far enough and actually we needed to improve the accessibility into the courtroom. And I think that's a fair point because there are some physical constraints about our courtrooms that means that some individuals still aren't able to fully participate in the justice system. And I include things like wheelchair access for people who may want to be sitting on a jury and other such accessibility issues.So I think in saying that it's a bill that's well supported across the House. It will go some way to unclogging parts of our justice system. It will mean better protections for victims to participate in legal hearings without having to be physically present. So with that I would like to support the bill through to committee of the whole House stage and through the House. Thank you.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Teanau Tuiono): The next call is a split call which doesn't look like it's going to happen. So the next one on the bill is—oh sorry. Apologies Hon Casey Costello—sorry if I jumped ahead into the future.