Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Kia orana Madam Assistant Speaker. It is a great pleasure to stand here today. Obviously this is a wellbeing Budget: $1.9 billion into mental health $1 billion into our rail network $3.8 billion into education half a billion dollars specifically into tangata whenua with targeted Māori initiatives. We are focusing on the intergenerational difficult and harmful societal issues. When I was out in the community visiting the Tauranga Taupō and Rotorua communities talking to them about the Budget one of the things that those people—those quiet New Zealanders—came up and said to me was We have some real hope. We have some real hope that there will be some intergenerational change." So I stand here today with a full heart and immense pride in our Government for putting people and our environment at the centre of our Budget. Simply put we are striving to resolve long-term issues like mental health child poverty homelessness and family and sexual violence. We're doing this while maintaining fiscal responsibility. Fiscal responsibility is the hand that holds wellbeing close and I'm delighted that our Government knows that. It will come as no surprise that today I'm going to talk about the $320 million allocated in family and sexual violence the biggest allocation ever—so important. I spent 15 years in the paid workforce in that sector and I want to share with the House what I've learnt during that time. I bring it to this House to support a systematic plan that we have towards eliminating violence so that we can all benefit from the wellbeing. What I've learnt: I've learnt that victims and perpetrators come from all walks in this life—the quiet New Zealander Matt Doocey. I have learnt that most victims and perpetrators have been victims of abuse as children. We with this investment seek to break the intergenerational cycle of abuse. I have learnt that the most frequent question ever asked about violence is "Why doesn't she just leave?" I can say she doesn't leave because she's afraid because she lacks resources because she continues to hope that things will change because she is worried that her children will live in a worse situation than they're currently living in because she knows he will use every system to further abuse her because she thinks that violence is physical and that she's never been hurt physically because she believes it when she's told that it'll never happen again because she does not understand what a loving and respectful relationship is and because she's ashamed. There are many reasons that speak to the complexity of violence and I can tell this House horror stories and heartbreaking stories of fear but those are not my stories to tell. I can tell this House about the tremendous work that our front-line services deliver including our police and our expert services. I am so delighted that we have systematically worked with eight ministries to put money into the family violence and sexual violence sector—eight ministries working together in a joint venture in a joined-up way in order to support our shameful statistics. One million people are affected by violence every year in this country. One in four women are affected by sexual violence. One in seven men are affected by sexual violence. I'm so very very proud of this Budget that has actually realised that we need to make a significant financial investment across the whole of Government in order to make a change. I'll close with a quote from the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern. She says it perfectly: "Wellbeing means … safe and free from violence. That is why this package is such a significant cornerstone of the Wellbeing Budget." Thank you."