Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. It is my pleasure to take a call in this debate on the Prime Minister's statement and I think for me the challenge really is: what does leadership look like today given the challenges faced by many of our constituents—the people whom each of us are here to represent and serve? So when I look at the challenges of the electorate of Manurewa I think about the levels of homelessness that we have within our community and I also think about issues such as child poverty.I want to reiterate something that colleague Denis O'Rourke said earlier: we now know through Treasury reports that we are 60000 houses short of the number that we need to house New Zealanders. We have seen images of people living in cars living under tarpaulins living on the streets and for some of us actually that is why we are here. That is what we are passionate about. We are passionate about making sure that every New Zealander has access to the basics in life: a warm home food on the table access to school and access to good employment so that they can have dreams and aspirations and contribute to our society. So I am incredibly distressed and dismayed that the Government has not prioritised ensuring that every New Zealander has a home. I actually think it is a fundamental human right and something that we would commit to.The reality of the people who are homeless is that over 53 percent of homeless people in New Zealand are children. So I think about the legacy that this Government is creating for the next generation and I think about children who live in those types of situations and the fact that they have got no food. All of the schools in my electorate feed our children so I want to acknowledge KidsCan which provides food and coats and shoes—and actually to some students sanitary products. I want to thank Sanitarium and Fonterra which are providing Weetbix and milk and making sure our children have breakfast. But I also want to highlight that last year this Government had an opportunity to ensure that all of our children and especially those who go to decile 1 and 2 schools had access not only to breakfast but to lunch. That Government through its lack of leadership voted against that piece of legislation.I have not got much time so I want to focus on what I think are failings of the Prime Minister and his lack of leadership. Actually we could see it graphically over the last couple of days in him coming out really clearly and saying that the Government will not support my colleague Jan Logie's Domestic Violence—Victims' Protection Bill within the context of Women's Refuge the National Council of Women the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions the New Zealand Public Service Association and the Human Rights Commission coming out in support. We had employers: The Warehouse Countdown ANZ University of Auckland GCSB and Business New Zealand. The interesting contribution from Business New Zealand was that it thought it would be useful to hear from small businesses. So we have got large businesses that are committing to this issue. Why? Because we have over 100000 domestic violence incidents every year—there are 100000 police engagements with this issue.I thought Christie Hall's contribution was particularly interesting too. She is the chief executive of Ernst & Young and she said that the biggest thing that this bill will contribute is to reduce the stigma associated with family violence so people can actually say it is not OK and we as a community and as a society can deal with these issues.For me these are leadership issues and we need Governments that provide leadership that actually want to stand with business. For me it is a nuanced social contract. Why? Because Governments are here to serve the people to serve citizens to serve our constituents. Businesses are actually now understanding that the people who work for them are part of their family their team—the ANZ family the Countdown team—and so I want to highlight what James Walker said because he said that it makes clear that family violence is not OK and that employees asking for help and employers supporting them actually benefits their team their Countdown team.So the Government is not on the side of history—again. For me this shows a lack of leadership that New Zealanders need to wake up and look at because if it will not address issues such as domestic violence which is so critical to be addressed in our country because of the prevalence of it then I am sad—then actually we will be the Government. We must be because these issues are fundamental to the work that we do. Kia ora.