Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Vote: Bills — Social Security (Winter Energy Payment) Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Social Security (Winter Energy Payment) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Hon Carmel Sepuloni
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Kelston)
GREG O’CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): Members opposite are not a bad bunch of blokes and women. I get on pretty well with most of them, but they do exist in an irony-free and a luxury zone—irony free. Tonight, before this bill, we passed some very... Read more →
Third Reading — this is the last vote a bill needs to
pass before it's sent off to become law. Earlier votes (first reading, second reading, and
any votes on amendments along the way) decide what the bill looks like and whether it
keeps moving forward, but this is the one that actually decides whether it happens at all.
✓ 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 |