Davidson MaramaHon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare tēnā tātou katoa. I want to firstly congratulate Minister Faafoi for progressing this legislation through the House. I do actually acknowledge genuinely across the House that I believe we all want to see safer responses for victims and survivors of family violence and sexual violence and I want to hold to that. I want to genuinely uphold that I truly believe that that is what representatives in this House want to see. I want to take us back and the Minister Hon Kris Faafoi himself mentioned in the opening statements tonight that we go back to the purpose of what this legislation is trying to do: to make sure that we are addressing primary concerns here.Hon Kris Faafoi for example just talked about how we can make sure that we are preserving the principle of fair trial and that in fact there is international and other evidence to show that with the safeguards the concerns of breaking the integrity of the principle of a fair trial have not been borne out. What I want to say and what we know is that the risks and the under-reporting of sexual violence and family violence has been borne out. That is very clear and has been in front of us for many many decades. Right now we have unfortunately around 80 percent of violence and harm going unreported but for sexual violence it is in fact even higher the vast majority—around 94 percent of sexual violence goes unreported. This legislation is part of the essential and long overdue necessary steps that we all need to take to ensure that when victims and survivors want to truly see justice and accountability that we are at least making changes in our legislative and court processes to give people more faith and trust that that is indeed what will happen: that we will deliver justice and accountability.My colleague Jan Logie—who for the Green Party has been our outstanding holder of this legislation who has been our outstanding spokesperson—also referred to the ongoing evidence and the evidence of our colleague here in the House Emily Henderson which has shown what has been borne out. We can hold that to our own high standards in this House about what the cause what the principle—what this legislation is trying to do; it is trying to improve and maintain the principle of a fair trial.Oh my goodness the time goes. I did want to draw on the voices of advocates victim survivor advocates and the sector. I particularly acknowledge Te Ohaakii a Hine—National Network Ending Sexual Violence Together—TOAH-NNEST—for their sharp and critical analysis on what we all know was also challenged and continues to be challenged here in the House. I acknowledge Hon Kris Faafoi's approach in actually making sure that we do answer and debate those valid law and legal legislation challenges that are being raised. The very critical debate that I too want to uphold around the principles of a fair trial. The sector and victim survivor advocates have absolutely gone directly to those very debates as well and have asked in fact that where there are issues where we do need to strengthen and make sure we are tightening up the principles of a fair trial then we seek operational solutions to make sure for example in the—I believe it's actually clauses 13 and 14 but also pages 13 and 14 in the Supplementary Order Paper that refer to the giving of evidence by family violence complainants and the giving of evidence by sexual case complainants or propensity witnesses that the video evidence and alternative evidence options are a small but important part of how we want to improve safety for justice including victims and survivors and complainants through our justice process and that there are ways to seek solutions to uphold the important principle of a right to a fair trial. Thank you Madam Chair.