Logie Jan; Tolley AnneJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you and I will do my best to stick to the bill. Today we take a huge step to address a critical problem facing Aotearoa New Zealand. As the Minister of Justice has said in passing these two bills today we are demonstrating our commitment to doing what we need to do as a Parliament as a Government and as a country to ultimately end family violence in New Zealand.We're all too familiar with New Zealand's horrific rates of family violence. In 2017 alone police attended 122000 family violence incidents—one every five minutes. Statistics suggest about 76 percent of family violence incidents go unreported and between 2009 and 2015 there were 194 family violence deaths in this country an average of 28 a year—28 people killed by a member of their family most of them women killed by their partner.We cannot underestimate the impact of family violence. It doesn't just affect victims; it affects their whānau communities businesses and our entire society. It has a lasting impact on people's psychological and physical well-being—those that survive. It poses significant threats to children's development. Research shows that children and young people living with violence in their families are at greater risk of experiencing physical or sexual abuse. Preventing and responding to family and sexual violence represents one of our best opportunities to improve the well-being of everyone and it's really pleasing that today Parliament is united in this endeavour. And I love the energy of trying to up each other in terms of how much we care. I want to encourage that in the future.I do want to acknowledge the Hon Amy Adams for getting this work on the table and for engaging members of the House communities NGOs and people working in the sector. Her initial work has paved the way for where we are today and I also of course acknowledge the Minister of Justice the Hon Andrew Little for his absolute commitment to addressing family violence and for bringing these bills to their third and final reading. I also want to acknowledge the officials who have lost sleep along the way to getting us to this point. They really have put their hearts and souls into this work as well.This family violence legislation provides much clearer direction on the nature of and appropriate response to family violence. It clarifies that many forms of family violence conform to a pattern of coercion and control rather than acting as isolated incidents and it clearly states the risk of lasting harm to the future well-being of children and it directs decision makers to where appropriate intervene early and ensure appropriate sanctions and services for perpetrators as well as services for victims.These changes as well as elevating these factors to the level of principle in the legislation provide clear direction based on concerns from the community that decisions were not consistently or adequately safeguarding victims. We need to get better at recognising and developing appropriate responses for all victims and the specific dynamics they experience. Organisations like Shakti have long raised issues like forced under-age marriage coercion to marry and dowry abuse as dynamics of family violence that they were concerned often went unrecognised by mainstream services and the State. These bills now include dowry abuse as an example of family violence and create a new offence of coercion to marry. The intent is that this will help ensure we all recognise and respond appropriately to protect the victims from these abusive practices.I also want to mention that disability groups and people representing older New Zealanders have also been working hard to educate us about the disproportionate risk of violence faced by these communities and the failure again of mainstream services and the State to protect them. This legislation adds a new principle that acknowledges that people with disabilities and the elderly are particularly vulnerable and so they should for example have access to targeted services; it clarifies that withholding aid care medication or other support that might affect their quality of life is also a form of family violence; and it states clearly that the caregiver-client relationships can be covered by this legislation if it is a close personal relationship because we'd heard that that was unclear for people so we needed that to be clear.While we've renamed the bill to remove whānau" from the title and we've shifted from domestic violence to family violence—and we've removed whānau because we don't want to support a stigmatising narrative—I do want to specifically address the definition of "family relationship" because there was some concern that the change in title might limit protection to those in what we traditionally understand as a family relationship. It does not. It offers protection to whānau flatmates people in dating relationships and people with an ongoing care relationship as well as partners and child-parent relationships.Strengthening protection for victims is at the heart of this relationship. This is why we have enabled police safety orders to be used for up to 10 days to allow police to require a risk assessment when they issue the order and police can now arrest and issue a police safety order which means that if a case falls over and isn't able to make it to trial there's still an opportunity to intervene for the safety of victims. This provides us with a real opportunity for earlier intervention that we lacked before.The bill also includes provisions to promote child and victim safety and parenting arrangements. It requires judges to take the existence of a protection order into account when assessing a child's safety and care of children proceedings and empowers judges considering care of children cases to make temporary protection orders and to impose protective conditions for handover arrangements. This is all to strengthen the direction already in the legislation that the use of family violence against a partner poses a profound and potentially lifelong risk to children.Putting the safety of children first requires us all to demonstrate to children that their safety is paramount to us and no violence is acceptable and we will work to protect them from it. The Family Violence Bill enables everyone involved in the family violence sector to work together to get people the help that they need. As we hold the people who choose to use violence accountable for their actions and as we support them to recognise and change their behaviour we must still bring the voices and lives of victims and survivors to the centre of everything we do.On that matter of coordination we all know there's a real need for behaviour change so that people both inside and outside of Government are working together more effectively as part of an integrated responsive system. There is so much we need to do and this bill enables codes of practice to be able to get us all on the same page and address the concerns raised by the Family Violence Death Review Committee that all too often practice and understanding is unsafe and is not adequately protecting our victims and children.So I look forward to working with my colleagues in Government with my parliamentary colleagues and with the community to ensure the effective implementation of this legislation because we need to maximise this opportunity to address family violence in order to start transforming our system making a difference for everyone in the society but primarily to work towards the end of this violence in our communities. Kia ora.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Before I call the next speaker I didn't interrupt the member who's just resumed her seat but she is an experienced member and she read the entire speech. I refer her to Speaker's rulings 46/5 and 6 in particular which were placed on record by the current Speaker and probably 47/2 which says a Minister by convention is normally able to read a third reading but that's the only member who can. OK?"