Thursday, 2 December 2004
Vote: Bills — Social Security (Long-term Residential Care)Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Ruth Dyson
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Banks Peninsula)
LINDSAY TISCH (National—Piako): It has been an interesting debate. When we look back to 1996 at the Labour Party’s policy in this area, it said in its manifesto that it would remove asset testing. Labour repeated that at the 1999 election and many... 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 large majority
(108 Ayes – 9 Noes – 3 Absent)
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 | 9 |
| Green Party | 8 | 0 |
| Māori Party | 1 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 13 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 51 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 25 | 0 |
| Progressive | 2 | 0 |
| United Future | 8 | 0 |