Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a really exciting moment to get to speak to this year's Budget and talk about the work that we are doing to address family violence and sexual violence. This is one of those underlying deep shames in our country that is still uncomfortable for many people to talk about and is holding us back as a country on quite a profound level. The statistics from the Ministry of Justice tell us that every year about one million New Zealanders are affected by these two forms of violence—that's including the people causing the harm as well as those who are experiencing it. So we know that we've got a really big problem as a country and it's one that a business-as-usual approach of one-off initiatives is not going to solve. It's going to take all of us working together to be able to turn this around.I want to say really clearly that I have absolute confidence in our ability as a country to turn this around. We are a really small place we're really well connected to each other and if there's any place in the world that can change this culture to get to a point of safety where people are thriving in their families it's this country because of our size and our connectedness and I would say the fact that we were founded on an idea of partnership.This Budget is really significant. It's the largest single commitment in a Budget in this country's history towards addressing this violence and it's a completely new way of working in Government. It's no longer one ministry saying This is our initiative. We're taking this seriously. We're going to solve this problem by ourselves." It's actually a whole package right across Government. We are coming up with a whole-of-Government response.That reflects the fact that in 2016 the Family Violence Death Review Committee who investigates all the deaths from family violence in their report reflected on the fact that New Zealand at that point did not—and we still don't yet—have a family violence system. Instead they described what we have as a default system consisting of a fragmented range of processes and responses with one-off interventions that don't actually manage risk. They do not and they were failing to and they are still failing to keep women and children safe.The only way we're going to change that is by starting to work together to see for once if those interventions make sense together—to actually take it from the starting point of those victims' and survivors' lives and follow them through asking what they need to be safe and for those people who are using violence where we could have got in earlier to prevent them from causing harm. That is one of the reasons in this Budget that we're putting a really significant increase into funding for prevention projects because if there's one thing I hear from people around the country it's that they want to see us doing more to prevent this violence before it happens. We're doing that and so people will soon start to see more discussions in their communities—more discussions about how they can help to intervene to prevent harm and more discussions and opportunities to intervene to change this culture of violence that permeates our entire society.We'll be intervening with the babies and their mums because that's again one of those things people say to me: they're sick of seeing these hurt children go on to hurt others in turn later in their life. That's on us. We can prevent that. I am so proud of all of the Ministers in this Government for standing together for a future free of violence."