Nash StuartSTUART NASH (Labour—Napier): John Clarke wrote one of my all-time favourite songs and it starts out: At the dawn of the day in the great Southern Ocean when the world's biggest fish was being landed"—and we all know the chorus. It goes on to say: "We don't know how lucky we are mate. We don't know how lucky we are." But the thing is that for around about 525000 Kiwis they would listen to this song and go: "Where is this paradise that Fred Dagg is talking about?". For 525000 Kiwis domestic violence is a very real part of their lives of their community. They do not see the wonderful country the fantastic image that we sell ourselves to the world with because for them they are living with violence day in day out.The tragedy is that only about 20 percent of domestic violence is actually reported to the police and there are still around 110000 call outs to the police. About 3 or 4 months ago I went to the police watch station on a Monday morning. What the police did was they had the three major districts in the Hawke's Bay. They had Hastings they had Napier and they had Wairoa and they had lights on each of these areas. They said these were the domestic violence call outs they had had over the weekend. I said: "What per month or you know whatever?". They said: "No no just on the Saturday and just on the Sunday." You are kidding me!You know I do not think many New Zealanders understand. Obviously 500000 New Zealanders do but I do not think many New Zealanders who live in the sanctity of a nice warm dry home and go to work etc. understand the epidemic that is domestic violence in this country. The police attend 279 calls each day—on average about one every 5½ minutes—for domestic violence. Children are present in 80 percent of all domestic violence instances and a number of MPs have talked about the damage this does to the nation's children. About 32 Kiwis are murdered every single year—13 women 10 men and nine children are murdered. You know this is a really serious problem.We are supporting this bill—I must say that—the Family and Whānau Violence Legislation Bill. We are supporting this but there are a number of things in the bill that I have real concerns about. Let me tell you one thing: in 2015 there were 4624—4624—proceedings against people who had breached a protection order. That was up by nearly 20 percent from 3 years earlier. These are court-ordered protection orders that are supposed to keep Kiwis safe when they are in a violent relationship. We need the teeth here.There is an organisation in Napier called DOVE. It runs programmes that give men basically strategies for dealing with their anger as opposed to smacking their women or their kids. It gives them strategies on how to deal with this. It is really concerned with the directive that it must provide all information to the Ministry of Social Development that a whole number of men will not self-medicate and come along and end up with these strategies. So while this is good you know to put the measures in place we cannot forget that there are a whole lot of other agencies and other measures that we need to do.The National Government has announced that there are going to be 880 new police. Police actually said it wanted 1165 but with the 880 new police the Minister has said that what she wants to see is a 10 percent decrease in murders as a result of domestic violence. That is only three murders a year. We need to resource the police in a way that allows them to deal with this because this is a real issue. Let us not sweep this under the carpet. Let us not think this is just someone else's problem because it is not. Domestic violence is at I think epidemic proportions in our communities. We need to deal with this. We need to fund the agencies in a way that allows them to provide the interventions. We need to ensure that the police have the resources to protect people with protection orders and protect our community. This is a start. This is a start but it is not enough. We need to do a whole lot more and what I would like to see the Minister do is commit to the next stage which is really resourcing the police and the community organisations that will make a difference."