That Workbridge: 11 monitors and reports on expenditure C Promotion and maintenance of NZSL recommendations of Job Support and Training Support funding on NZSL interpreter and That the Ministerial Committee on translation services, including the Disability Issues: number and proportion of deaf people 14 progresses options for establishing an whose Job Support funding runs out NZSL Statutory Board in 2014/15 to before their annual funding renewal oversee the promotion and maintenance anniversary. of NZSL, in consultation with the That the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment: 12 develops reporting mechanisms for proposed interim Expert Advisory Group on NZSL. That the Office for Disability Issues, measuring uptake of video remote in consultation with deaf community interpreting (VRI), in consultation stakeholders and other NZSL users: with other government agencies, to 15 establishes an interim Expert Advisory enable government agencies to make Group on NZSL, with a majority of deaf comparisons between usage of VRI and NZSL users as members, by 31 December face-to-face interpreter services. 2013, for the purposes of advising the That the Office for Disability Issues and relevant government agencies: Ministerial Committee on Disability Issues on options for establishing an NZSL Statutory Board that would: 13 scope a project on workforce development issues for NZSL interpreters to inform the proposed NZSL strategy, in consultation with the proposed interim Expert Advisory Group on NZSL and the Sign Language Interpreters’ Association of New Zealand (SLIANZ). a develop a strategy for the promotion and maintenance of NZSL b advise, guide and monitor government agencies’ use and promotion of NZSL c provide NZSL expertise into a national languages policy. 16