Mentions of New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups (Victim Support) in New Zealand Parliament debates
New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups (Victim Support) has been mentioned in 29 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Employment Relations (Secret Ballot for Strikes) Amendment Bill
In Committee 7 Sep 2011
KELVIN DAVIS ... Government’s next step in interfering in other voluntary organisations and what they do. After that, it will be Victim Support, after that it will be the Boy Scouts, and after that, who knows? The world is at Tau Henare’s mercy when the ...
Health
Youth Suicide—Kawerau Core Clinical Committee 22 Jun 2011
Hon PETER DUNNE ... the police, mental health services, Child, Youth and Family, the Ministry of Youth Development, local colleges, and Victim Support.
Motions - Pike River Mine, West Coast—Explosion
Pike River Mine, West Coast—Explosion 23 Nov 2010
Hon PHIL GOFF ... unit leader, Trevor Watts. To Mayor Tony Kokshoorn, non-governmental organisations such as the Red Cross, St John, Victim Support, and others, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, and local and national companies like Air New Zealand ...
General Debate 8 Sep 2010
Hon PAULA BENNETT ... as well. Today we have announced a $2.5 million appropriation for counselling, which will mean working closely with Victim Support, the Salvation Army, and Relationship Services to get qualified staff from other areas to supplement the people who ...
Prisoners' and Victims' Claims (Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill
In Committee 23 Jun 2010
IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY ... Of course, Labour promised to put a significant amount of money—about $1.5 million, or more than that, I think—into Victim Support to boost that organisation’s ability to provide services to victims. That is the kind of policy, the kind of ...
Second Reading 23 Jun 2010
Hon NANAIA MAHUTA ... 0800 victim helpline was also introduced in that same year, as was a website for victims and a boost in funding for Victim Support, which offers much-needed services in many communities. All these types of initiatives built a profile of ensuring ...
First Reading 27 Apr 2010
LYNNE PILLAY ... I acknowledge all the good work that many agencies throughout New Zealand do for victims, including Women’s Refuge, Victim Support, and those who operate the 0800 line that was introduced under the previous Labour Government, which gave more support ...
Sentencing (Offender Levy) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 21 Oct 2009
Hon SIMON POWER ... of work that has gone into this legislation by the ministry. Last Friday I was very pleased to announce to the Victim Support conference that eight new entitlements and services for the victims of crime will be funded from the offender levy. ...
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... to independent private schools—$5 million, $6 million, or any part of the $35 million—and it would give that money to Victim Support directly, and to other non-governmental organisations and agencies that deal with victims every day. It would give ...
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... recognise the gravity of the crime or the need involved. There again, if we were to provide money directly to, say, Victim Support in the form of an appropriation, then it would be up to the specialist agencies, like Victim Support and other agencies,...
CARMEL SEPULONI ... that it would be more effective to give the money it would take to set up this bureaucracy to an organisation like Victim Support. I want to briefly discuss the Labour view on the issue at hand. Labour members of the Justice and Electoral ...
In Committee 15 Oct 2009
JACINDA ARDERN ... it will cost $7 million to administer a political point and that we will probably get only $7 million into a fund for victim support at great expense and with a great administrative burden. Perhaps it would be better for the Government to look at ...
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... helping victims, it could have chosen to take the money it says it will get and, without any bureaucracy, to fund Victim Support directly with $15 million or $16 million. The Government could have given the money directly to Victim Support, the ...
CARMEL SEPULONI ... It would be more effective if this Government decided to give the money it will take to set up this bureaucracy to Victim Support. It is already difficult enough to collect reparation from criminals, so what makes National think it will be easier ...
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... 105G, or to make decisions about distribution. We have an organisation, just one of many organisations, called Victim Support. The Minister could go to the Minister of Finance tonight—he might be at his house cleaning it, perhaps—and ask for 60 ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... need only half of it. I think the Minister of Justice would agree that even if we receive up to $4 million a year for Victim Support, that amount does not meet the needs of the Victim Support service. I think people would agree with that. I do not ...
STUART NASH ... that we have agencies in place at the moment that are prepared to collect this and that are prepared to help victims. Victim Support is a classic one. It is just amazing. But Labour does support this, because—well, I do not know why. What is the point ...
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... Would it not be more efficient and more cost-effective to provide the money directly, to do a vote line transfer to Victim Support and give it the capacity to assess where the need might lie?
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... crime that occurred in my electorate. Two bodies were discovered in an Aranui house. What happened was that Victim Support was tremendous with the family of Tisha Lowry. It went to them, it supported them, and it offered them the assistance ...
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... blink an eye, because it would not make a heck of a lot of difference to them—and in an efficient way contract with Victim Support and other agencies to directly assist victims. This—sadly, I say to those who are listening and watching tonight—is ...
KELVIN DAVIS ... only once, not $50 for each of his victims. This bill could also be called the “Sentencing (Missed Opportunity for Victim Support) Bill”. It is ironic that Victim Support has been mentioned a number of times in the House, because my father and 11 ...
KELVIN DAVIS ... are all retired. They are living on superannuation. If this levy had been gathered up, it could be used to bolster Victim Support so that people like my father are not dipping into their superannuation and into my inheritance to come down to the ...
Second Reading 14 Oct 2009
LYNNE PILLAY ... more effective, rather than having all this bureaucracy, to give the money directly to that wonderful organisation Victim Support, which has led the way in terms of support for victims of crime. But that was not to be. The purpose of the levy is ...
Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Bill (No 2) 2007
Third Reading 26 Jun 2008
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... violence witnessed in the RSA murders. There was, however, a very good point made in the course of the bill by Victim Support and the Employers and Manufacturers Association (Northern), which has been spoken about today. Both of those groups ...
Third Readings 19 Jun 2008
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... the judge or any other party. But we are cognisant also of the advice of Geoff Vause, a Wellington advocate for Victim Support. Geoff suggests that the criminal justice system itself is at a point of collapse, and he has found that the ...
Social Assistance (Debt Prevention and Minimisation) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 11 Mar 2008
HONE HARAWIRA ... in September, after 7 years’ incarceration in various youth institutions. The victim’s mother has spoken out, and Victim Support says that the key focus for election year must be on strengthening the rights of victims in the criminal justice ....
Policing Bill
In Committee 7 Aug 2008
RON MARK
... the people who have dedicated their lives to supporting others. We acknowledge the submission from the New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups—
... who have dedicated their lives to supporting others. We acknowledge the submission from the New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups—
First Reading 19 Feb 2008
Hon DARREN HUGHES ... a lot of opportunities for people in organisations that deal with the police, such as Neighbourhood Support or Victim Support, right through to territorial local authorities, and councils that have a daily relationship with the local police in ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 13 Feb 2008
CHARLES CHAUVEL
... and I am sad that Mrs Goudie does not, because there is more. There will be additional funding to the New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups to build the capability of front-line service coordinators, and the Law Commission will be asked to look at the question ...
... sad that Mrs Goudie does not, because there is more. There will be additional funding to the New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups to build the capability of front-line service coordinators, and the Law Commission will be asked to look at the ...
Hon JUDITH TIZARD ... families and children.” So Plunket said it is a great result, as did Relationship Services, Barnardos, Jigsaw Inc., Victim Support and, across the board, all of those wonderful non-governmental agencies that are so important to New Zealand’s well-bein...
Police
Crime, Victims—Support 5 Aug 2010
Hon JUDITH COLLINS I am very pleased to report that today I opened a new national contact centre for Victim Support, which has been set up at the Police National Headquarters here in Wellington. The contact centre will enable Victim ...
Police Procedures—Roadblocks 6 Nov 2007
Hon ANNETTE KING Counselling and assistance are available through Victim Support. I gather that counselling is also available through the education system, should people wish to access it. I do not ...
Criminal Justice Reform Bill
In Committee 19 Jul 2007
SIMON POWER ... a bill concerned only with offenders’ rights. The interesting thing, of course, is that this very point was raised by Victim Support at the Justice and Electoral Committee when the bill was before that committee. Then the most curious series of ...
In Committee 18 Jul 2007
SIMON POWER ... that that was a change to the current arrangements—which it clearly is, otherwise the bill would not amend it—but Victim Support—
SIMON POWER This is actually quite a serious matter, I say to Mr Cosgrove. Victim Support appeared before the select committee to discuss this clause and raised concerns about it. It said the victim of a ...
Justice
Parole—Proportion of Sentence Served 7 May 2009
Hon Clayton Cosgrove ... two-thirds of a sentence, when he claims to be part of a Government that puts victims first, and when experts such as Victim Support—a venerable organisation—came out strongly in support of Labour’s provision for parole on serving two-thirds of a ...
Criminal Justice System—Ombudsman’s Comments 26 Aug 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... Parliament—that they knew it all. They laughed at people such as those who work in the criminal justice system—Victim Support, the Salvation Army, and others—and said they would not take any notice of them. We believe that those people have ...
Victim Support—Initiatives 19 Mar 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... a central contact point for victims—including a national 0800 victims’ helpline and a website—increasing funding for Victim Support, and the establishment of victim advocate support persons in Family Courts. Also, the Law Commission has been asked to ...
Hon ANNETTE KING I have seen many positive and supportive comments, particularly from organisations like Victim Support. But I am disappointed to say that improving services and support for victims does not appear to be anywhere near to ...
Dail Jones Has the Minister seen the recent statement by Victim Support dated 18 March 2008, regarding the need to improve information services and financial support to victims, and the ...
Community Groups—Sustainable Funding Model 19 Feb 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... establishment of a central contact point for victims, including a website and an 0800 number; increased assistance to Victim Support; the establishment of independent victim advocates; and further funding to non-governmental organisations to deliver ...
Hon ANNETTE KING Yes. I have seen a supportive release from Victim Support, and I am advised that the response from the non-governmental organisations has been very positive. I have also seen ...
Crime—Victim Statistics 4 Apr 2007
Hon MARK BURTON ... initiatives have been put in place since the 2005 survey. Those include, in particular, significant support for Victim Support and community support initiatives, and a focus on the long-term support of community-based agencies. I can tell the ...
Budget Debate 24 May 2006
Hon DAVID BENSON-POPE ... and supply agreement with New Zealand First. More than $10.8 million over the next 4 years has been allocated to Victim Support for it to continue its restructuring, and that funding will enable Victim Support to hire more practice specialists ...
Budget Debate 18 May 2006
TARIANA TURIA ... the streets, the homes, and the communities of those children before they get to school? We are pleased to learn that Victim Support and family violence prevention services are getting a look in. These are both vital services for restoring a state of ...
Hon PETER DUNNE
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As I was saying—and the Budget made particular reference to this—we will see a huge improvement in funding to the Council of Victim Support Groups. One of the things that came through in a seminar in Upper Hutt last week—a seminar in which everyone but the National ...
... saying—and the Budget made particular reference to this—we will see a huge improvement in funding to the Council of Victim Support Groups. One of the things that came through in a seminar in Upper Hutt last week—a seminar in which everyone but the ...
RON MARK ... announcements, some of which may have escaped some people. There is $10.8 million over 4 years for a restructure of Victim Support. We applaud that. I went to the Prison Fellowship seminar on Sunday and I heard the word “victim” used three times. I ...
Budget Statement - Budget Debate
Budget Debate 18 May 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ...on">More than $10.8 million will be allocated over the next four years to progress and consolidate the restructuring of Victim Support, which began in 2004. The funding will go toward ensuring that the organisation's structure and personnel meet the ...
Crimes of Torture Amendment Bill
First Reading 28 Mar 2006
NANDOR TANCZOS ... was the lack of perceived independence of the prison complaints system as it then existed. We heard submissions from Victim Support people, who supported the idea of an independent prison inspectorate. If I remember correctly, the Sensible Sentencing ...