Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National): Can I firstly acknowledge the sponsor of the bill Jan Logie. I was not privileged enough to see her first reading speech but I understand it was quite a remarkable speech and I want to pay tribute to you Ms Logie for your sterling work in bringing this bill to the House. As someone who has also had the luck of the ballot smile on me I suppose and had a bill pass its first reading unanimously as it looks like this will it is a great feeling so please enjoy it.One of my favourite songs is a song by Pearl Jam called Rearviewmirror". It is on their 1992 album and it is about domestic violence. The title refers to the protagonist in the song driving away and the lyrics talk about driving away and the time for emancipation. The lyrics talk about dealing with the effects of family violence. It is one of my favourite songs not only because it is a great rock and roll song but also because of the lyrics. It is a song I think that first made me think seriously as a young person about family violence or about domestic violence. I guess it is a tribute to the power of music to make people think about issues that are really important in society. Pearl Jam is a great feminist band as I know members in the Greens will know and it got me thinking about it as a teenager.It is not an issue that has ever touched me in a real literal way in society. I have been very fortunate that it is not something I have ever had to deal with except I suppose in a remote way and I am very privileged to have not had to experience that but for too many people in New Zealand and for too many people in the Hutt Valley it is a very real thing. "Joy" is the wrong word but one of the things I have been very privileged to have done since I became an MP just over 2 years ago is to go and spend time with our women's refuge in the Hutt and to deliberately get out there into the community to some of our marae and to some of those community organisations that are dealing with the front end and the hard edge of this issue. It has been an eye-opener and that is one of the things I think you can do as an MP actually. You get the privilege of learning and growing in the job and that is something that I have deliberately tried to do.One of the things—I suppose the biggest lesson—that I have taken away from those visits and those conversations is that the size of the problem is truly remarkable. You know it is just almost unfathomable the extent of violence—almost always by men against women—in our communities. As Minister Amy Adams said in her excellent speech which I watched in my office it is not just going to take the Government to do something about this problem; it is a whole-of-society issue that we need to address. The Government will do its bit and we will lead on this and I hope actually that we will look back on the 2014 to 2017 Parliament and people will say that was the Parliament—the 51st Parliament—when the New Zealand Government and elected representatives got serious about family violence. I do not want to besmirch or cast aspersions on the efforts of other parliaments that have gone before or indeed other Governments because I do not think this is actually about party politics but I hope people will look back and say that it was the 51st Parliament that put a marker in the sand and took serious action on family violence.I think the package that the Government has outlined which—again I do not mean to be party political but we are in Government so that is what has happened. But the package that Minister Adams has put together and I know it enjoys widespread support across the Parliament will I think make a substantive difference. The work across greater penalties the work across early intervention work some of the work that is going on with the Integrated Safety Response pilot—other speakers have made reference to it.Those are all very worthy things and the aim of this bill is very worthy as well. I am a member of the Justice and Electoral Committee and I am looking forward to discussing it on the committee. I think it is a worthy bill and I am looking forward to the discussion. Kia ora."