"But no system's perfect and we are having, I guess you could call them, casualties inside our environment and we'll just get someone to come and have a look and tell us.
"It's possible they'll tell us we are doing too much, I don't know what the answer is but we've got, obviously, incidents that we would prefer not to happen and we want to make sure that we do what we can to make sure they don't happen any more.''
Savea, 22, was in tears as he issued an apology to his partner and her family at Rugby League Park in Newtown. He will appear in the Wellington District Court tomorrow.
Reading from a statement, he said: "Whilst I can't go in to the details because it is now before the courts, I understand that the details will come out in due course. But I will say that my partner and I did have an argument, I did some things that are wrong and that I shouldn't have done and I apologise for that.''
Despite learning of the incident on Monday, Savea, who appeared on posters last year as part of the "It's Not OK'' campaign against family violence, was allowed to play in the Hurricanes' 22-16 win over the Western Force in Wellington on Friday night.
Hurricanes chief executive James Te Puni was asked twice what the reasons were behind Savea being allowed to play but both answers skirted the issue. ``As Steve [Tew] has said there was a number of people involved in making that decision. I think the key thing to remember here is that this matter is subject to a process and from an employment point of view we want to make sure that this process is respected and completed and obviously we will look at what comes out of that in terms of possibly any consequences as opposed to pre-judging it,'' Te Puni said.
When pressed, he said: "I think the primary [reason], as per the comment I made earlier which is there was a process there and there were a number of people involved, obviously the two families concerned and the two primary people concerned, the advisers and lawyers involved and the two primary organisations involved - the NZRU and the Hurricanes. So the reality is it takes some time to work out what the various parties were looking for and as soon as it became clear that everyone was aligned around wanting to front this prior to too much more time going down the track and Julian has done that.''
Savea isn't expected to be stood down from team duties in the short term and will be eligible for selection to travel to South Africa when the Hurricanes head away next weekend following their game against the Stormers in Palmerston North this Friday night.
