Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Vote: Bills — Immigration (Fiscal Sustainability and System Integrity) Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Immigration (Fiscal Sustainability and System Integrity) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
GLEN BENNETT (Labour): Kia ora, Mr Speaker. It’s a privilege—and it’s a heavy privilege—to stand and speak to this legislation this afternoon. I was in the House last night and a lot of today listening to the arguments, listening to the...
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
(102 Ayes – 15 Noes – 6 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 | 11 | 0 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 0 | 15 |
| New Zealand First | 8 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 34 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 49 | 0 |