In the course of my research for this debate, I came across some interesting statistics in the Accord report to the Department of Social and Family Affairs. Respondents to a questionnaire were asked if their partners had ever used force against them or if they had ever used force against their partners for any reason. The results indicated that, during the course of a marriage or a living together relationship, 53% of all couples responded "Yes" to that question and, in almost half of the replies, it was mutual. Obviously, there were varying degrees of domestic violence, including pushing, shoving and grabbing. A noteworthy finding, which may be disputed by other Members, was that, excluding cases of mutual perpetration, the incidence of perpetration by women only, at 36%, was slightly higher than perpetration by men only, at 28%. I expect the findings were influenced by when and where the survey was carried out.