Imagine that you can't hear your co-workers in the office and the hallways, and you can't hear them in caucus, in cross-party groups, or in select committees. That hearing, that access, that enabling of basic equality, is something that every single one of us in this Chamber, who is currently elected to the House of Representatives, takes for granted. It is proof that this place was made, was designed, for the likes of us. But it's estimated that nearly 19 percent of New Zealanders experience a form of hearing loss. Thousands communicate via our official language—New Zealand Sign Language, but zero percent of the House of Representatives are currently living that experience. We make the rules for those deaf and disabled New Zealanders, but we regularly do so without any knowledge of their experiences.