Sio Hon Aupito WilliamHon AUPITO WILLIAM SIO (Minister for Pacific Peoples): I am pleased to take a call on this. Firstly I want to acknowledge the Minister the Hon Carmel Sepuloni for the leadership that she is providing around the protection of families. The Families Commission Act Repeal Bill—this is the bill to improve the effectiveness and efficiencies of social science research and advocacy for the interests of families and whānau. This Government has a collective and united focus on improving people's well-being success and ability to reach their full potential. This bill recognises that investing in families is an integral part of this Government and we've got a good mechanism in place to ensure that attention is given to the needs and interests of families and whānau.Just reflecting on where we are today and the diversity of families and the make-up of families I'm proud to be associated with a Government that takes families seriously and recognises the plight that many of our families are undergoing at the moment. I'm pleased also that the Minister in her wisdom had fought hard to make sure that the longitudinal research continues to be funded where we're able to observe what has happened to families that have been researched and that evidence is really important. I also want to acknowledge the fact that the Hon Carmel Sepuloni has also been a strong advocate in making sure that the Families Package which comes into force on 1 July is a package that is going to help families. Often we talk about children living in poverty but children don't live by themselves; they live in family units. They live in a variety of family units: sometimes single parents single dads single mums and sometimes these young children see a different set of parents coming through their front doors. I know that having met up with community organisations on the ground who are working at the coalface of helping families they see the complexity of those particular issues particularly in some family units. It's no longer the simple family units that we've been accustomed to; it's a variety of complex family units and some young people will see different partners of their mothers or their fathers coming in through the door. That has an impact on how those children are raised. Sometimes one of the parents might be somebody that will harm the other partner and all of that impacts on families.What I'm really pleased about is that some community organisations have got it. They're working really really hard with support from this Government on models that primarily are focused on the well-being of those families—strength-based. One particular project is out in South Auckland in Papatoetoe. The well-being model is strength-based so that instead of looking at the risk or instead of looking at the harm or the deficit aspects of that particular family this particular model looks at the family environment the educational environment the health environment and the justice environment and determines the strength for each of those particular environments. By so doing they are able identify how to help and support that particular individual child or that particular family.As I said I don't need to speak any further than I have. I just want to acknowledge the fact that this legislation is now at its third reading. I acknowledge the leadership of the Minister the Hon Carmel Sepuloni for leading this and proceeding it through the House and getting it done because if it was that other lot we would probably be waiting for another year.