Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Vote: Bills — Resource Management (Duration of Consents) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Resource Management (Duration of Consents) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
GRANT McCALLUM (National—Northland): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I recently attended a meeting in mid-Canterbury at the Lagmhor Westerfield Hall full of farming families who are facing an uncertain future, burdened down with cost and stress. The reason was...
✓ Passed by a narrow margin
(68 Ayes – 55 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 | 11 | 0 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 0 | 15 |
| New Zealand First | 8 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 34 |
| New Zealand National | 49 | 0 |
| Te Pāti Māori | 0 | 4 |