Naylor JonoJONO NAYLOR (National): We all have moments in our life that I think we look back on and we can recall exactly how we felt at that time. One of those moments for me was in about 1994 or 1995 or thereabouts walking out of the movie theatre after watching Once Were Warriors for the first time. As a relatively young man at that point in time I suppose who had grown up in a middle-class European sort of setting and not having ever been exposed to anything like that quite so graphically I remember how shocked how drained and how just embarrassed I guess in some respects I was. At that point in time I think there were a number of people across New Zealand who were waking up to the idea that there was stuff going on behind the doors of the houses in our neighbourhoods that we were suddenly awakened to and we realised we were not happy about it and felt the need to do something about it. Since that time throughout our country subsequent Governments have endeavoured to do everything that they can to ensure that they reduce the level of domestic and family violence that is going on in our households. Over that time period it seems that whatever we have tried it seems to still get only worse. Yesterday this Government announced that we are now going to take a different approach. I know Mr Shearer does not like the word comprehensive" so I will use words like "thorough" and "multi-faceted" and "extensive" and "integrated" because that is the way that this Government is looking to go forward in addressing what is an absolute blight on our society. There are some grim statistics but as has been said by a previous speaker a woman who experiences strangulation from her partner is seven times more likely to die at the hands of that person. In 2015 Child Youth and Family received over 150000 notifications about care and protection issues for children. Nearly half of all homicides and reported violent crime in our country are related to family violence. It is absolutely time that we take a thorough multi-faceted extensive and integrated approach to doing this and that as the Prime Minister announced yesterday is now going to occur. Recovering from a physical assault is incredibly challenging and I know that a number of people have experienced that. But if that assault has been inflicted by someone who is supposed to love you someone who is responsible for your care then recovering from that act and repeated actions is even more difficult for people to do. We have got to ensure that our system does not re-victimise victims and so as a part of this plan we are going to make it easier for people to get protection orders put in place. We are going to ensure that actually having been victims they do not then have to go through big processes. NGOs and other people will be able to seek to get those protection orders put in place on their behalf. I know that amongst the NGOs and community organisations I have talked to in Palmerston North where I live they will be welcoming this so that they can act on behalf of people rather than simply giving them advice and sending them on their way. There are going to be greater resources put in to ensure that our perpetrators will take responsibility and to provide assistance to them—to those who once they can take responsibility seek to break themselves out of that cycle and start to take a better more appropriate role within their families. It is about getting harder. We are going to put in place more particular offences so that we can strengthen the justice system to ensure that we deal with these perpetrators in the most appropriate ways. This House is often divided on debates over ideology but I look forward when the legislation comes forward over the coming months to this House working together to help put together legislation that will strengthen our fight against this thing which is absolutely a scourge on our society. Thank you."