Martin TraceyHon TRACEY MARTIN (NZ First): Kia ora Madam Chair. Thank you very much. Just to take a call in support of the Domestic Violence—Victims' Protection Bill on behalf of New Zealand First can I open by thanking all members of the Justice Committee. There was diligent work here. There was real conversation a real commitment and I don't think anybody wants to deny that—that there was a real commitment by the members of the select committee to come to a place that supported the victims of domestic violence. What we are in now is just a small conversation about making sure that there aren't any unintended consequences for those—and business is the topic that has kind of been at the forefront I suppose here.So New Zealand First will be supporting the bill. We will be supporting Ms Logie's Supplementary Order Paper 39 in one part because it actually allows a Supplementary Order Paper on behalf of my colleague Clayton Mitchell to take effect if it's fully supported with enough votes across the committee. There are two Supplementary Order Papers under the name of my colleague Clayton Mitchell. The first one Supplementary Order Paper 47 is actually around some concerns that we had with regards to the amount of time that an employer could be taken to task for using the number of ways that they could decline giving domestic violence leave to an employee. I think Ms Logie has tried and the select committee has tried very clearly to recognise that there are times when it will be too difficult for a company a business to do what they want to do which is to care for another human being that they are connected to—and the fact that that's a business relationship or a personal relationship or anything else.But we did feel that 12 months was a bit long and we felt that there needed to be some sort of immediacy to that so we've actually put in a Supplementary Order Paper to take that 12-month period down to a six-month period. We feel that gives enough time for the victim to have got—we hope—past the crisis or the trauma which they were experiencing and that they've had time to think about and seek support if they feel that it is necessary to actually lodge that complaint or go into mediation with their employer around that request.I also want to talk about the secondary Supplementary Order Paper that is on the Table in the name of Clayton Mitchell Supplementary Order Paper 46. Actually it was Rural Women New Zealand who brought this particular Supplementary Order Paper to the fore. It was part of their submission to the select committee and again you can't doubt those women's desire to be part of the solution here. They brought with them a very rural and practical and reasonable suggestion that five days—for an employer in certain circumstances to only have five days to be able to come back to the employee and say We can" or "We can't" change your flexible working arrangements—was a little short and particularly I think haymaking was one of the examples. There are some real examples in rural life where this is a little short. So our Supplementary Order Paper has picked up on their submission and actually sets a maximum of 10 days the employer has to be able to try and work some flexible working arrangements for somebody requesting domestic violence leave.Just before I sit down I want to just say one other thing. I want to reiterate the fact that New Zealand First does see—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Sorry. I don't want to interrupt the member except to say our time clocks are malfunctioning. You've got about a minute.Hon TRACEY MARTIN: Thank you very much. I beg your pardon. So just to say that New Zealand First has shared the concerns others have voiced around business. We have had some constructive conversations with the Minister of Finance. He has agreed that the Tax Working Group will be taking this up as an item to have a look at as to whether any days taken under this particular piece of legislation can be claimed as a tax rebate by businesses and it's a continual live discussion with the Minister of Finance around that so that we can do right by both sides of the conversation here. Thank you Madam Chair."