Williams PotoPOTO WILLIAMS (Labour—Christchurch East): I have to first acknowledge my dear colleague Jan Logie who is an absolute champion for women and I have to say Minister Amy Adams—I am actually rather taken aback by the emotion you expressed at the end of that speech. I have to say for many women in the House this is a very personal issue. I just want to tautoko my daughters and granddaughter in the gallery. Heaven forbid that anything that happens to many of the women in our country happen to those beautiful children up in the gallery. I must acknowledge Heather Hēnare champion of this particular cause and supporter of many victims of domestic violence. Your work will go on and you will continue to be recognised for the amazing work that you do.What this bill I believe attempts to do is to really start to normalise the conversations that we must be having in each and every workplace about domestic violence. It must bring it down to the point where we stop being scared of opening the door and shining the light on what is going on in many of the families that we occupy—that we live in. Each of our families is touched in some way by the abhorrence of domestic violence—whether we are impacted personally whether our children experience it or whether we are supporting our sisters and our brothers through difficult times. This legislation is saying: You know what? It happens. Let's own it. Let's get real about this everybody because it happens and because we are good employers we are going to allow people the time that they need to address those issues." Ten days is not much but you know what it is a heck of a lot more than we used to get and it is a good start. This bill actually says: "Yep. We have a responsibility here. We have a responsibility as employers to support our employees through this and you know why? Because they are good employees and we want to keep them and it actually adds to our bottom line at the end of the day." Let us get real—it is all about the cost-benefit for the employer. It is about the social benefit for that employer too and I want to acknowledge all of those refuges all of those family violence services and all of those networks that have managed to stay together despite some very difficult times because that is where this work has come from. It has come from the grassroots family violence services every single day out there not only supporting women kids and men but actually finding those creative solutions those opportunities to actually make a difference whether you have got funding or not because this is New Zealand's biggest issue. It is our biggest handbrake in terms of our productivity and in terms of our safety. In terms of being a great little country this is our biggest handbrake.I want to acknowledge the work that some of our people do at the very grassroots. I can remember a few years ago when I was part of the west Auckland family violence movement not only in refuge but in network services where there were a couple of women who went out knocking on the doors of all the businesses to say: "Hey we think family violence is a bit of a problem in our community. As an employer what do you think you can do in response?". And do you know what? Many employers including a large supermarket chain said: "Well we'll take this one step at a time." The first thing they did was they actually had the white ribbons on White Ribbon Day and they handed them out over the counter—step 1. Step 2: the next year they actually joined the White Ribbon march and they got engaged with some of the family violence services to learn a little bit about what was going on. That is how these things start—one step at a time—and then they get to the point where they are businesses that acknowledge that family violence occurs within their staff and they want to do something about it.I am really pleased that the Health and Safety at Work Act is involved in this and that we will be looking to train people to recognise that family violence is a hazard in the workplace. I am so pleased that this has come to the House for us to discuss and debate and I am so pleased that we are actually now able to throw open the doors and the cupboards and shine some light on what happens because yes there are 100000 family violence callouts to the police but the problem is three or four or five times greater than that—we all know that.Just in my final few seconds—I wish I had more time—I just want to tautoko you Jan. This is an amazing bill and it is definitely worthy of all the time that we can devote to it in the House. I really want to thank you very much for bringing it to the House."