Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. I'm actually going to start with a waiata and I think it will outline why I have chosen to sing this waiata.Ko te taonga o taku ngākau ko taku mokopuna e He mokopuna korikori hei aha hei aha rā Ko te mea nui ko te aroha Kaua e patu taku mokopunaMe awhiawhi mai taku mokopuna korikori e Me awhiawhi mai taku mokopuna korikori e.[My heart's greatest treasure is my grandchild He is a mischievous grandchild but that really doesn't matter The most important thing is love Please don't smack my grandchild Just cuddle him.]This bill for me is about our children. We actually have 280 family violence incidents reported to the police every day. We unfortunately however have 1167 incidents because 76 percent of family violence incidents in New Zealand are not reported. Children are present in 778 of those incidents.So what happens to our children who grow up witnessing family violence? Actually they're three times more likely to commit suicide; 57 percent of them have no qualifications; they have physical and mental health poorer education and poorer employment outcomes; they become drug- and alcohol-dependent; they become homeless. They're twice as likely to be victims of sexual violence and they're four times more likely to commit sexual violence against a partner. So what we know is that early intervention and prevention is essential if we are to break the patterns of behaviour and reduce harm.And you might ask where this wonderful advice came from. It's from Reform of Family Violence Law. Paper One: Context and supporting integrated responses that I credit the previous Government for. That previous Government Ministerial Group on Family Violence and Sexual Violence estimated that the direct cost to Government of family violence every year was $1.4 billion and it was women and children who paid the cost. The cost to business they estimated at $368 million per annum because of the lost productivity the stress and the staff turnover. So the reality of this situation is that our businesses are affected and they're affected to the tune of $368 million every year.I want to highlight a point made by the Hon Amy Adams in the first reading of Jan Logie's bill—and I quote—The point I made when I made the commitment on behalf of the National Government to support the bill—certainly through the first reading and through to a select committee—was that [what] we do know and what we must know is that whatever the answer is business has to be a part of it and that is the absolute agreement I am in with the member." So business is part of the solution; the Hon Amy Adams says so. We agree with her 100 percent.I've found a piece of research called Factors Associated with Disclosure of Domestic Violence at the Workplace. The reality is 40 percent of people who are abused disclose to somebody that they work with. But the interesting thing that I've found out through this piece of research—and it's from the University of Western Ontario by a young woman called Laura Olszowy—was that the reason women also disclose in the workplace is because they suffer from workplace sexual harassment.So there's a correlation between people disclosing their family and domestic violence which happens privately and what happens to them in their workplace. I find that incredibly interesting because there is a growing global movement around this concept called Me Too where we're starting to call out the sexual harassment that we all experience as women in the workplace and what we know through some recent research is that a third of New Zealand's female lawyers are sexually harassed in the workplace. So sexual harassment violence and issues to do with women are not just a private matter; in fact they are also a public matter and it is true that Parliament is incredibly interested when it is a public matter.People may not know but the Inter-Parliamentary Union did a survey and released a report. The Inter-Parliamentary Union—most of us as parliamentarians belong to the Inter-Parliamentary Union—released a report in October 2016: Sexism harassment and violence against women parliamentarians in parliaments. So for all of our knowledge 44.4 percent of the women who were surveyed said that they had received threats of death rape beatings or abduction as parliamentarians. So this whole concept of domestic violence being this private matter that happens somewhere over here and it's got no relevance to the workplace is absolutely false. I know that the Minister Iain Lees-Galloway with my colleague Jan Logie—who also happens to be the architect of this bill—is looking at the responsibility of workplaces to ensure that sexual harassment and violence does not happen.So what does this piece of research also say about the responsibility of workplaces? It actually says that they have a responsibility to provide a responsive workplace and ensure that that workplace is safe not only for the woman who suffers domestic and family violence but because we know that sometimes the perpetrators of family and domestic violence will follow the victims into the workplace—it actually is a workplace issue because of that person's colleague. And this—guess what—happens in big businesses medium-sized business and small businesses and I'm quite sure that health and safety legislation in New Zealand does not have an exemption because of the size of the business. We also know from research that on average if you do have an employee who suffers from family and domestic violence it's about a $3500 cost per year with them not turning up for work or leaving and you have retention issues and you have to retrain and all that sort of thing.So there's this fallacy that businesses currently are not having to pay for the burden of family and domestic violence. So to say that 10 days' domestic violence leave is too expensive is actually an incredibly—I was going to say naive thing to say because businesses are already paying the price but let's help them pay the price in a positive way. And what is that positive way? By actually having a workplace that allows people to disclose. What happens when you disclose? You get help. You get help for yourself you get help for your family and as I highlighted earlier you get help for the children who have no choice. Too many of our babies are growing up thinking violence is normal. We have to do everything we can to change that culture and we need to work with business all business because—guess what? Business people employ ordinary people mums and dads with children. I talked to Kiri from Countdown the other day and they're incredibly committed. They have 19000 employees—10000 women. Why did they change? Because one of their employees was murdered—murdered—and they said "What can we do? What could we have done to have helped that woman her family and children so that we could have prevented that death?"So this is an incredibly important piece of legislation and I want to thank Jan a lot of the people here and all the women who are speaking out and saying "Me too". What happens to us in our workplaces in our families needs to be public because the only way we will stop it is to name it and to shame it and to change it which this bill is attempting to do so I support it 100 percent. Kia ora."