Yang JianDr JIAN YANG (National): I take a brief call on this. First of all again I thank Mojo Mathers and also Chlöe Swarbrick for their effort to make this happen. I must say as the chair of the Governance and Administration Committee I feel quite privileged to work with different parties and particularly the sponsor of the bill Chlöe and it has been quite a consensus for us to actually work on this. As I said earlier in the second reading we have an obligation to support people with disabilities to participate equally in politics particularly in the general election. As many people have emphasised under article 29 of the United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities New Zealand as a country which has ratified this convention has the obligation to make sure that people with disabilities have access to politics.The Government has done a lot in terms of making it happen. For example in the last election the Electoral Commission—actually according to an Electoral Commission report—had 1649 fully accessible voting places and 654 voting places accessible with assistance. So the Government has been making an effort to make sure that people with disabilities are able to participate and there is a quite high percentage of satisfaction from disabled persons in terms of participating in the elections.Nevertheless we still face a number of challenges in terms of helping these people. For example it has been a challenge for people with disabilities to participate or to meet the candidates and even to participate in televised leaders' debates according to some submissions because they were not able to participate due to lack of captions. Also in terms of multimedia platforms again it has been a challenge to these people. Online voting is another challenge. So we do have those challenges in terms of helping these people to participate in the general elections or other local elections. To participate in terms of elections can be a challenge; to be a candidate can be a bigger challenge. For example these candidates—these people with disabilities—may find it hard to get to the venue. Transportation can be a challenge. Interpretation can be a challenge and for that reason we do need to find some ways to support these people. That is why this bill is particularly important. We need funding to support these people so that they are able to become a candidate and to participate as a candidate.The committee received a large number of submissions including 84 unique submissions and 385 form submissions. The committee made a number of changes. Chlöe Swarbrick has mentioned some major changes including for example who can receive this kind of funding. How to define candidates—so we now include those who have declared their intention to become a candidate. So this is a kind of broadened scope of this definition.In other changes for example we now have reduced the funding to individuals instead of having parties or not-for-profit organisations and also made sure that the funding would not be counted as donations because this will encourage parties to help candidates to apply for the funding and also as tax exemptions. Basically the funding will not be counted as income for any candidates—that will again encourage candidates to apply for the funding. So all these changes have improved the bill and I believe it is now an excellent bill.