Thursday, 30 May 2019
Vote: Bills — Social Assistance Legislation (Budget 2019 Welfare Package) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Social Assistance Legislation (Budget 2019 Welfare Package) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Moved by
Hon Carmel Sepuloni
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Kelston)
GREG O’CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): It may reflect the sadness of my life, but I’ve read every Budget document for the last 21 years, and, with most of those Budget documents, you go to the profit and loss and you look at where the money’s being spent,... Read more →
📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Increasing benefit payments”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
for Increasing benefit payments.
✓ Passed by a narrow margin
(63 Ayes – 57 Noes)
Hansard didn't name individual MPs for this vote, only how each party voted overall, so
there's no per-member breakdown to show here.
🏛️ Party breakdown
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| ACT New Zealand | 0 | 1 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 8 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 9 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 46 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 55 |