Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Vote: Bills — Resource Management (Prohibition on Extraction of Freshwater for On-selling) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Resource Management (Prohibition on Extraction of Freshwater for On-selling) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
DEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): Tēnā koe e te Pīka. Thank you for the respect that has been afforded to this bill, and also a huge mihi to you all for the aroha that you have shown to Te Pāti Māori and the w’ānau for the loss of Takutai. When we... Read more →
🛑 Bill failed here — this reading vote failed, and a bill can't proceed
past a failed reading. So even though this isn't the third reading, it's the last we saw
of this bill: it doesn't get another vote after this one.
✕ Failed by a large majority
(20 Ayes – 102 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 | 11 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 15 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 0 | 8 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 34 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 49 |
| Te Pāti Māori | 5 | 0 |