Barry MaggieHon MAGGIE BARRY (National—North Shore): Thank you very much Mr Chair. It is with pleasure I rise to talk about the annual reviews that have come before the Justice Committee and following the tough guy of Labour Angry Andy"—"Oh So Angry Andy". Family violence which is one of the problems failing the justice system—CHAIRPERSON (Adrian Rurawhe): Order!Hon MAGGIE BARRY: —we have a Minister who is leading from the front—CHAIRPERSON (Adrian Rurawhe): Order! When members are addressing other members they are to use the correct form of their name. Thank you. Hon MAGGIE BARRY: Thank you very much Mr Chair. "Mr Angry Andy" the person who is somebody who—CHAIRPERSON (Adrian Rurawhe): Order! Order! Second warning.Hon MAGGIE BARRY: Thank you very much Mr Chair. I guess having listened to the diatribe of nonsense from the previous speaker who used to be the leader of Labour until he wisely stepped down—and they all owe it to that member for where they are sitting today; that member and Winston Peters—we have tough talk from individuals who have done nothing and who are actually appalling when it comes to family violence.So the Justice Committee has heard a number of annual reviews. One of them was the Department of Corrections. Now with the Department of Corrections you would have thought that a sensible Government with any kind of view to rehabilitation in the future would not have stopped the money and the resources going into drug and alcohol rehabilitation but they did. Wonder why—what's their problem? Why would you do something that absolutely will guarantee that people who have those sorts of difficulties would be able to get out of the problem?I urge this Government not to continue its wilful ideology that will take us down the path of hardened criminals on the streets of New Zealand preying on innocent New Zealanders. This idealistic nonsense from this chaotic Government—and this is a Government that's very fond of the "c" word isn't it? The "c" word—"Crisis? What crisis?" There used to be one in manufacturing. Now they're drumming up some other nonsense as well. The fact of the matter is they have overspent overcommitted and raised expectations and they're now desperately trying to distract from the smoke-and-mirrors brigade that there is no problem. We've been funding all of their unwise and unrealistic promises. They've dug their own grave and they're welcome to it.So this is a hard-working committee unlike the Minister who just sat down who doesn't appear to have much knowledge at all of his portfolio or anything that's going on in it. The Justice Committee does have one of the heaviest workloads in Parliament and there are I think 11 annual reviews.I'd like to talk about family violence because that was work that was begun under the National Government. It's very good work and I would hope that this ridiculous Government doesn't try and undo the good work that we did. In family violence it's extremely important to note that as Governments operate they didn't used to share very much information. So under the leadership of Amy Adams who at that time was Minister of Justice—and what an outstanding Minister of Justice she was especially compared to the incumbent. Amy Adams and Minister Anne Tolley from the Ministry of Social Development as well made it very clear that they expected officials and Ministers to work together. So when we looked at the way that family violence was being dealt with and this is something that the Justice Committee looked at—the goal to reduce crime victimisation and harm. The Ministry of Justice prioritised that. I think they've done very well.The Whānau Protect National Home Safety Service which is one of the pilots around family violence which began under National I hope will continue on and that they don't take the funding out of it to put into some other bright shiny new thing that won't work because that is a pilot that has been working.In my own area formerly of seniors and being very concerned with elder abuse and family violence as it pertains to older members of families the work that we were doing with ACC and police was extraordinary. It did change lives. The Integrated Safety Response—the two pilots that we set up are in Christchurch and Waikato. We put money into it last year—$22.4 million in funding—because we want those pilots to continue. And thank goodness we did because otherwise they would have taken the money and spent it—squandered it—on something else. But we have put that through now until 30 June 2019 so that even this chaotic Government and it's unfortunate Minister will not be able to undo the good work that we have done.So I urge this Government with all of its foibles and strange ideas to not go soft to ensure that family violence is at the heart of the justice sector. Thank you Mr Chair."