Kuriger Barbara: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKuriger Barbara: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 26 February 2015. Volume:703;Page:1993. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]12.BARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki—King Country) to the Minister for Women: What reports has she received relating to the prevention of family and sexual violence in New Zealand?Hon LOUISE UPSTON (Minister for Women): Today I was proud to release the Ministry for Women’s report Wāhine Māori Wāhine Ora Wāhine Kaha which concentrates on preventing violence against Māori women. This research will contribute to work being done by the Government’s family violence ministerial group and marks the first time the Government has sought to engage in and understand primary prevention of violence against women from a Māori perspective.Barbara Kuriger: How were Māori engaged with in order to develop the findings of the report?Hon LOUISE UPSTON: In partnership with the Ministry of Social Development 11 hui were held around New Zealand with 16 Māori service providers and 47 research participants. Through this engagement the Ministry for Women identified a range of perspectives on what primary prevention is and what the protective factors are that keep Māori women safe from being victims of violence. Analysis of the key discussion themes has shown promising primary prevention strategies for Māori women and their families.Barbara Kuriger: How does the Minister plan to engage with Māori to share the findings of the report?Hon LOUISE UPSTON: I have planned a number of engagements around the country to meet those who will be able to benefit from the research presented in Wāhine Māori Wāhine Ora Wāhine Kaha. These interactions will build on and broaden the findings in the report by giving service providers iwi and community members an opportunity to share their views. As well as discussions with stakeholders who will be able to use the findings to achieve better safety outcomes for Māori women I plan to ensure that there is a strong uptake of this work in homes and communities. Violence is a problem for many New Zealand women not just Māori women so any ideas will be used in the broader context of policy development to help prevent family and sexual violence in New Zealand.Sue Moroney: Why then has her ministry given up on reducing violence against women by 2016 as it once planned to do and now does not expect to see any reductions until 2018 in its latest output plan despite the fact that this has been one of her ministry’s top three priorities for 6 years now?Hon LOUISE UPSTON: I want to assure the member that as the Minister for Women preventing violence against women up and down this country continues to be one of my top priorities. I will be working closely with the ministerial group in a whole-of-Government approach to solve some of these deeply entrenched challenges and the research findings from this report will be an important part of that particularly for how to keep women safe in Māori homes and communities.Sue Moroney: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I asked why her ministry had changed its targets and its dates and there was no response to that—Mr SPEAKER: Order! I am unsure whether the question was addressed. I am going to invite the member to repeat the question.Sue Moroney: Why has her ministry given up on reducing violence against women by 2016 and now does not expect in its latest output plan to see any reductions until 2018 despite that being one of the top three priorities for her ministry for the last 6 years?Hon LOUISE UPSTON: That member is incorrect. The ministry has not given it up. It has not changed its target. This is a Government that is committed to solving the challenges and keeping women up and down New Zealand safe in their homes.Sue Moroney: I seek leave to table the output plans from the ministry from 2013-14—Mr SPEAKER: Can I just—[Interruption] Order! All I need to do is to clarify whether they are freely available to members. Yes they are so I will not be putting the leave.Rt Hon Winston Peters: If the Minister’s last answer is true did she receive reports of a particular case of family and sexual violence in Northland in 2014 and what did she or her colleagues do about it?Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member can answer the question in respect to her own ministerial responsibility. Did she receive such a report?Hon LOUISE UPSTON: My question today refers to a report preventing Māori violence in Māori families and I have not received any other reports.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. The question asked what reports has she received—Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! I think that if the member had listened to the answer before he jumped to his feet he would have heard that the member then concluded the answer by saying she had received no other reports.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Of the reports she has received relating to—going off the primary question—the prevention of family and sexual violence in New Zealand what reports has she received about a high-profile case in Northland that should have come to her and her colleagues’—Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! The member will resume his seat. I will refer the member to Standing Order 115 which I have mentioned once before. There is a matter before the courts. It will not be discussed in this House. The member if he had wanted to do so had the ability to write to me if he intended to raise the matter; he has not done so. That concludes questions—Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. With the greatest of respect—Mr SPEAKER: Point of order the Rt Hon Winston Peters—[Interruption] Order! I have got to call the member first—the Rt Hon Winston Peters.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I am not infringing any sub judice rule which I am very familiar with as a trained lawyer—much more than you are Mr Speaker. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! It is a point of order and I wish to listen to it in silence.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I am asking whether or not she received any high-profile case information and what she did with it. For example she could answer “I referred it to the legal authorities.” or “I referred it to the police.” But to say that I am captured by the sub judice rule when I have not mentioned any case is simply not correct.Hon Simon Bridges: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. We all know that the member is skating very much on the head of a pin on this issue and we also all know that he was fired by Russell McVeagh for not being a very good lawyer. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! This is a serious matter—[Interruption] Order! I have given a ruling where I think this House is in danger of breaching an arrangement that is longstanding with regard to the judiciary. If the member intended to raise it he had the ability as I have pre-warned him before to write to me so I am declaring the question out of order.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker.Mr SPEAKER: I will listen once more to the Rt Hon Winston Peters on this matter.Rt Hon Winston Peters: No I am not litigating this issue. It is the one that Mr Bridges raised when he made his point of order. It was totally offensive and an utter lie and he should apologise. At least I got employed by the firm; you did not.Mr SPEAKER: Order! I think we take that as one all.