Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Rodney): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. Look it's a pleasure to take a call on this the Election Access Fund Bill. Can I acknowledge the sponsor of the bill Chlöe Swarbrick; I look forward to working with her on this bill. Can I also please acknowledge of course the presence of Mojo Mathers. It's a real pleasure to see you back in the House. In my first term here in Parliament I sat on a select committee with Mojo and I witnessed—Hon Ruth Dyson: Which committee Mark?Hon MARK MITCHELL: I want to acknowledge Ruth Dyson as well. I'm actually going to come to a point really shortly around what we did with captioning. But can I just acknowledge that sitting on the committee with you gave me a true and a real appreciation of the challenges that you faced and the type of support that you needed to be able to make the contribution that you wanted to on the committee. And it was an important contribution.I'd just like to acknowledge the Rt Hon Dr Lockwood Smith because I know that he was a huge supporter and very sensitive to those needs and he made sure that that support was provided. So it's great to see you here today in the House with us. Can I acknowledge Ruth Dyson because you know when I came to Parliament as a new MP honestly I wasn't really that aware of the issues that people that have challenges around disabilities had or what we could do to make their lives easier. One of the first projects that I really got involved in and got interested in and passionate about was captioning. I was invited by Mojo to a movie night up in Auckland. I met a young lady there—captioning was making a huge difference to her in her life. Then of course you started a campaign and Ruth was a big supporter of that too in terms of making sure that captioning was even more prevalent more available here in our own Parliament and more broadly in New Zealand with that campaign as well. So can I acknowledge both of you for that.This is a good bill that we are supporting obviously at the first reading. We do want to get it into select committee because we do feel like there's some very important issues that need to be addressed. I guess probably one of them primarily is around the funding and where is that funding going to sit and who's going to be responsible for overseeing it because of course when you're using taxpayers' money—New Zealand as a country and a nation we're proud of the fact that political parties are responsible for fund-raising themselves and raising their own funds. So we just want to be careful around where that money's going to sit who's going to have oversight on it and how it's going to be dispersed. It's got to be fair because for example the National Party—we're a mass membership party and we have a wide diverse group of people from different cultures and ethnic backgrounds so you could argue that you'd have translation services and things like that. If the funding's going to be attached to or viewed in terms of membership or the size of parties then it could become disparate very quickly. So I think in terms of fairness this is going to be a good debate that can be had on the select committee in terms of finding out how that's going to work and how the funding's actually going to be applied.But look it's a good bill and there are definitely going to be things that I want to be debated and discussed around it but I think the spirit of it's very good. I look forward to it passing through the select committee process and coming back into the House. Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker.