Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki—King Country): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. Look it's hard to add a lot more when you get to the point of giving the 11th speech on a bill like this and it is a very highly charged and emotional topic. Right across this House we all feel for those victims of domestic violence whether they be male or female. It's men and women equally. It's often seen as something that is more directed towards women but there are men who are exposed to this as well.I've got a question in my mind really because a few things have come out today—we've heard about naivety and we've heard about a few things like that. We did vote for this bill at the first reading but as feedback came in through the public process and with MPs conducting their outreach into their constituencies coupled with Supplementary Order Papers we are unable to support the bill because we just feel that if Government was really intent on this Government would be paying the cost.I'm at a loss from everything I've heard from the other side today. We had Andrew Little actually standing up before saying Look good businesses will want to do this stuff." and I've got no doubt that good businesses are out there doing some of this stuff already. So what was so wrong with Supplementary Order Paper 42 which was put up by Mark Mitchell and which was defeated that said in the explanatory note that this Supplementary Order Paper requires the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment "to undertake a [national] educational campaign in order to assist small and medium businesses to comply with the changes … within the Act including additional leave requirements … Small and medium businesses may find these changes hard to understand and … require guidance in how to implement them correctly …". So if the intent was there—we don't like to be looking like this is actually a business versus employers thing. Everybody wants to help on the domestic violence thing and it is going to be hard for some businesses to be able to undertake this. So I just think that wouldn't have been a very hard thing to put in place.I do think that if the Government—like others have said—wants to make a real difference it would progress the Family and Whānau Violence Legislation Bill that we introduced last year which would be the most significant reform to family violence laws in a generation. So while there are a lot of parts I would like to commend Jan Logie on the intent of the bill—and none of us have disputed the intent of the bill; it's just the working part that we are unable to support this bill on. We all need to work together on the domestic violence front because there are a whole lot of things that need to be put together. There's a lot of playing parts to this and we need to work together on that but we just don't feel that it's appropriate that the Government is actually putting an unfair burden of cost on small businesses.So I just want to thank those groups in my community who I have worked with: the champions of family violence—those that are out there in the community to help people. We don't disagree that all of us need to play a part but unfortunately with the way this bill is constructed we are unable to support it today. Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker."