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1. Does your party commit to establishing a legal framework that protects the rights of disabled people, and upholds Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)?

2. Will your party repeal the Disability Support Services Bill and instead create legislation that protects disabled people's choice and control, promotes self-determination, provides accountability for disability supports and services and ensures disabled people and whānau are involved in all decisions that affect them?

3. Does your party commit to ensure that disabled people and disabled peoples organisations (run by and for disabled people) are meaningfully involved in the design of government policies and legislation that impact disabled people?

4. Does your party support ending the financial penalty disabled people face when entering or maintaining a relationship, including removing partner income testing for the Supported Living Payment?

5. Does your party support increasing both the Disability Allowance and Child Disability Allowance and making it easier to apply for them as recommended in the recently released manifesto to Reduce Child Poverty (2026) — Child Poverty Action Group?

6. Does your party commit to widening the eligibility criteria and increasing the funding allocation for Job and Training Support Funds?

7. Does your party commit to needs-based, predictable funding for disabled ākonga in mainstream schools and kura, including funding for teacher aides, specialist support, accessible resources, assistive technology and reasonable accommodations, so every learner can participate in education on an equal basis with others?

8. Does your party commit to accessibility legislation for all disabled people that includes enforceable accessibility standards so disabled people can access public spaces, buildings, transport, services, information, communication and digital technologies?

9. Does your party commit to honour the promise made to survivors of abuse in care by implementing and adequately funding in full the recommendations of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care and Honour the Promise?

10. Does your party commit to involving disabled people and disabled people’s organisations in climate adaptation and emergency preparedness, response, and recovery?