Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. It's really lovely to get the opportunity to stand up and reply to the Prime Minister's statement this year and a real feeling of optimism and a sense of just the chance to get stuck in again to making a real difference for the people in my community and the communities around the country. The Greens—it's probably no secret to anyone—are really excited by the big vision about how we can create a society that's sustainable where everyone has a place and the opportunity to reach their potential and that is safe. I just feel incredibly privileged to play a role in this Government around our collective efforts as a country—including with the Opposition—to end family and sexual violence.In the first year of Government we got more money to our incredibly important front-line services for victims of domestic violence started a review in the Ministry of Justice around the Family Court reforms to ensure that they're safe and effective and got a whole-of-Government response set up that means we'll be able to stop the ridiculousness where the Ministry of Justice had one programme to change the behaviour of people who had been using violence and the Department of Corrections had funded a completely different one. So potentially people using violence and wanting to change were being told two entirely different things about what they needed to do to change—ridiculousness. So we've set things up so that we can make sure that never happens again so that we're all on the same page walking in the same direction to that future free of violence that I am really excited about.We've ensured that we've got a partnership with Māori because actually there are so many solutions held within Te Ao Māori that we need to unleash as a Government and stop blocking and we introduced two new pieces of legislation last year. I acknowledge Amy Adams for the work that she did around the family violence legislation getting that there and a world first around workplace protections. I notice Scotland—a council there has become the first European council to introduce that specifically name-checking New Zealand for providing the example that they are now following. We have repositioned ourselves as a country as world leaders and it's pretty blimmin exciting.I know that as the Prime Minister said there is so much more to do because we're not just about moving things around; we want people's lives to be changed by what we're doing. I do want to then talk about my excitement and anticipation for the Welfare Expert Advisory Group report that will be coming out later this year. I am focused on those stories of those lives of those people in this country who have been devastated. It isn't an exaggeration to say that children have been dying because of the low income - related diseases. We have research that tells us that as well as people's stories and that is entirely preventable.When we hear a rhetoric coming from the Opposition about just the numbers—the numbers—they actually committed an act of violence against the people who are those numbers by ignoring their lives and the complexity of their lives that drives to get people into work regardless of their situation or the decency of their work ignoring the fact that over half of the people receiving income support are receiving income support for disability- or health-related reasons that mean they are unable to be in full-time employment. The stigma that's created by their drive to drive down those numbers ignores the stories that we have been hearing of—for example a mum with a newborn baby choosing to live in a shed sleeping on a mouldy piece of carpet because she did not want to go back into Work and Income. Her experience of that place created by the last Government's policies was so traumatising that she chose to live in a shed with a newborn baby.We are absolutely committed to fighting and doing everything we can to restore a sense of dignity and whakamana tangata to this country and I am so proud to be part of that mission.