Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Thank you so much. Look it's a pleasure to be able to support this bill. I'd just like to reiterate some of the comments of my colleague Penny Simmonds our disability spokesperson who's talked about putting in a Supplementary Order Paper in the committee of the whole House stage on the basis that there's some issues around who can actually train these dogs. I'm happy to support this because actually disability issues are human rights issues. Many of us either have disability issues or have family with disability issues. I say that not to say Gosh there are some people here with disability issues." but it's because we're just like representatives of New Zealanders and this is a normal part of people's lives—that they have to sometimes deal with disabilities and you just never know when it's going to strike.One of the things I really liked about this is the acknowledgment of the fact that this is a mainstream issue because this is something that everybody has to either deal with sometime in their lives or else a family member or a friend of theirs will. I was very pleased to see the work that Corrections did when I was first their Minister around training of disability dogs and I saw this happening in the women's prison at Wiri in Auckland—just how good it was to be able to see the first of those dogs come out from that training programme. I was very pleased to be the Minister there. I know where some of those dogs went and I know that they really contributed vastly to people's enjoyment of life their quality of life and actually also the friendship that a dog can bring. I want to also acknowledge Mojo Mathers who was an MP and was the person who actually first brought this issue to the House citing some issues—anecdotally but still issues—where people had found that they were discriminated against because their dogs were not able to get access to be with them at various times. I'd also like to acknowledge Ricardo Menéndez March who has picked up this bill from Mojo Mathers and has been able to continue with it. These dogs those of us who have seen them working being part of someone's family helping people who can't in many cases do things like open their front door can't pick up their phone—the dogs will go and pick up the phone bring it to them. They probably don't answer them that well but at least they pick it up. Those dogs make a huge difference to people's lives and they don't have to be particularly special dogs. They just have to be dogs that are big enough to do those tasks and are properly trained. When we look at the training the trainers who actually do this they work with people in for instance Corrections to be able to have prisoners and others train these dogs. It not only worked in the women's prison but the second time I was Minister of Corrections at that stage it had actually moved to Spring Hill prison as well where male prisoners were taking these dogs in from almost zero training and actually training them so that they would contribute to the wellbeing and happiness of those who were less able. This is a really good thing to do and it is a terrible thing to think that there are people who would not understand just how important these disability dogs are. They make the difference for people whether or not they can get a phone call whether or not they can open their front door whether or not they can put their washing machine on. These dogs are so well trained and this is something that we believe is a very important human right—that people should be able to no matter what their disability status or what their status is be able to access this most basic of human rights. So happy to support this bill."