Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Mr Speaker thank you. This is the first opportunity I have had to stand in the general debate and I love the fact that I actually don't have to use notes. Strangely enough I'd actually just like to agree with the member from ACT—what we do in Parliament is important and what we need to do is actually think about people and what we as parliamentarians do in this House has impact. So please David Seymour do not use the term beat up"—we don't like to beat up people in this country.I am going to speak a little bit about the actual effects of some of the policies that the National Party's domestic violence work has impacted on the community. I'm going to talk about this because actually I'm not one of those people that is going to stand here and point and put down people. I'm actually going to tell you about some of the impacts that your policies over the last nine years have done—SPEAKER: Order!ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Sorry sir. Like I say I'm new at this—the policies of the National Party have actually done. So nine years without an increase in the current refuge that I worked in Tauranga Women's Refuge. Nine years four times the increase of clients—the work continued to come. In fact I nearly make more—I nearly make more—money as an MP than the refuge I worked for was funded. That was to work with 176000 people in my community. That says to me that when we look at people and what is important and representing this Parliament we actually need to consider what the people on the ground are suffering. So 176000 was the population in my community we worked for. Let me tell you what the Government funded our organisation: $21.25 an hour per hour across 24/7 across 365 days a year. So when I hear that we need to work with business more and we need to do these things to increase our confidence across the world I actually say to you—sorry sir—I say to the Opposition we need to actually focus on people. Business is not as important as the people and the people who work in business are actually the people who suffer from the things that have been underfunded in this country.One of the things that I think is important to raise is—member Paula Bennett spoke about economic vandalism. If we are to talk about economic vandalism we actually need to focus on what that means. Economic vandalism is actually failing to support our people in this country. It's about our people living in cars and we hear this all the time but let me tell you—let me tell you all—some of us here on this side of the House have seen the impacts of what has happened to those people who were denied the fact that they needed a warm dry house. Let me tell you what it is like as a refuge manager to throw someone out on the street because they were safe in the community but they didn't have a home to go to and I needed to evict them from the safe house in order to get them access so they could get a week in a hotel. Now that tells me there is something wrong with what has happened in this world. There is something wrong with the policies that have been created to ignore those in poverty. We are lifting 380000 families out of poverty over time. We are working with children we are working cross-party where possible to support our families our community; kindness is back in the House. Thank you.Debate interrupted."