Thursday, 14 August 2025
Vote: Bills — Resource Management (Consenting and Other System Changes) Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Resource Management (Consenting and Other System Changes) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
RYAN HAMILTON (National—Hamilton East): It’s rich of the previous speaker, Tangi Utikere, to blame people leaving the country on us. There’s this thing called the lag effect. There’s been so much damage and abuse to this country, it takes time to fix...
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
(68 Ayes – 54 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 | 5 |