Thursday, 30 May 2019
Vote: Bills — Social Assistance Legislation (Budget 2019 Welfare Package) Amendment Bill
— Second Reading
🗳️ That the Social Assistance Legislation (Budget 2019 Welfare Package) Amendment Bill be now read a second time
Moved by
Hon Carmel Sepuloni
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Kelston)
MARJA LUBECK (Labour): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare and talofa lava, Mr Speaker. The Opposition has stated several times, “Is this bill sending the wrong message?” They asked us, “Is this the message that we should be giving?” Of course,... 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 |