Hon CARMEL SEPULONI: Approximately one in four New Zealanders identify as having a disability. That's 1.4 million New Zealanders. Disabled people face accessibility barriers across a number of areas of society. They're disproportionately represented in poverty statistics and experience heightened levels of discrimination. These changes will help to ensure disabled people have more personalised services, greater opportunities to choose how they live a good life, and improved outcomes across employment, education, health, and wellbeing. More broadly, Aotearoa New Zealand, as a whole, benefits from better inclusion of disabled people in society, including from enormous untapped skills that could add further value to New Zealand in a myriad of ways.