Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Talofa lava. Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. It's really lovely to get the opportunity to stand and follow on I think from my Labour colleague the Hon Poto Williams in talking about the Budget and the impact and role it's going to play in our effort to create a world where healthy respectful relationships are the norm and where everyone in this country can feel safe. That is a piece of work that this Government is very engaged in and I've got to say I'm really incredibly proud to be part of a Government where we're all working so hard together to be able to move towards that reality.So ahead of speaking to some of the details in the Budget on that I do just want to specifically acknowledge the Ministers in this Government particularly the family and sexual violence Ministers the Hon Andrew Little Carmel Sepuloni Poto Williams Nanaia Mahuta and Tracey Martin as well as Ministers Nash and Salesa who were involved in putting successful Budget bids through to help us move forward and in looking over all of them—and too to recognise that while this group has the responsibility for the oversight actually it is everyone across Government who is engaged in this and to do a particular call out to Minister Lees-Galloway and the leadership he's shown in ACC in getting them just over this time around the response to COVID adapting really quickly to ensure that the funding was going through to our prevention agencies who play such a vital role in our community and to help reshape the prevention work to meet the needs of this context.It's been really encouraging as well to see the work flowing through from Minister Hipkins in Education where they responded to needs identified by the community of the concern about the impact on children needing to leave their homes at that time and not having the ability to maintain their attachment to school. So Education worked with the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) other Government agencies and our community organisations to be able to get educational resources to kids in that situation including them being able to access laptops so that they were able to keep up with their school work just like other kids. I think that's showing the benefit of us all working together—that actually it's putting our families front and centre and making sure that we're not just kind of carrying on blithely doing what we think is needed and not checking whether it's meeting the needs of our community. This Budget has specifically—the key feature is about the resource to our front-line services that enables us to have the partnership between Government and community and recognising that that is essential for us to be successful in this work. And it builds on the work from the last Budget which happened to be the largest investment in family and sexual violence in this country's history in one Budget and this investment now is the second-largest. But the biggest commitment in the last Budget was towards sexual violence services because we knew that they weren't adequately resourced for the work that they were doing. This Budget really builds on that for the family violence sector as well.I just want to reference the fact that we've been hearing from the experts as well as from those services and our families about the importance and the need for this for a really long time. The Family Violence Death Review Committee's reports have repeatedly pointed out the need to adequately resource our specialist front-line services and for acknowledging that they were not adequately resourced and that their work is difficult and complex. We do a disservice to the families that they're supporting when we underfund them because that results in higher caseloads and increased stress for workers and that doesn't produce great results.So it was a very moving moment for me to be part of the announcement around this package and to hear Women's Refuge acknowledge the importance of this moment in time and actually visibly seeing transformation and the potential for fundamental change. One of Women's Refuge's critical roles has always been to challenge and critique and that kind of comment would never be made lightly. I really think it is a demonstration of the work of this Government of all parties coming together to commit to creating a future for us all that is free of these forms of violence. Just acknowledging that too that it is where Government agencies and Ministers have their lines of accountability—so for Police and Health and Education—and all of those agencies' and those Minister's outcomes are reliant on those front-line services. They're the people that they call when things get hard and they don't know what to do. So it has made no sense to me that that sector has been so under-resourced for so long and really it is a really significant moment in this Budget to see that change. And just to speak and pick up on a point that there is funding in this Budget towards victims and their whānau as well as to help people who have been using violence change—the latest Family Violence Death Review report spoke to the absolute critical importance of that. That $16 million builds on other funding already in MSD as well as through Justice and it is really important because we can't—one of the main shifts that we need to make in this work is from focusing on victims and holding them responsible for their own safety to actually shifting our focus to ensuring that the people who have used violence are prevented from using violence again. So this money is critically important as is the funding towards children's services because we know that the impact of violence where children are physically abused but even if they're in a household where there is violence—physical violence and other forms of violence—between parents or other people that causes as much if not more harm to those children than if they'd been hit themselves. That is what the evidence tells us and yet we have not resourced the services for those children to deal or heal from that trauma.So this again is a really important moment in our shift towards ending this violence because unless we intervene at that point so many of those kids—we condemn them to having a future with that violence in their lives and we get the chance to stop that. And that is something that I think we should all embrace and feel incredibly proud to be supporting because it is that future for all of us free of violence. Also to note that there is money in here as well for elder abuse and addressing elder abuse at the other end of the spectrum. It's similar dynamics often to violence against people with disabilities where there may be denial of medication there may be denial of mobility aids or financial abuse—that it traps people. Often seniors as well as people with disabilities don't have pathways to be able to tell people in the same way that an adult with full mobility or communication skills might and that this requires a specific response—again a tailored response. It's really fantastic to see us putting more money towards that so that we can ensure their safety. All of this of course is supported by all of the other measures in the Budget around housing and income and strengthening the justice system and community aid legal aid—there is so much to this about us transforming our society for all of us to restore wellbeing even in this crisis. We are seizing that opportunity.