🗳️ That the Disability Support Services Bill be now read a second time

Moved by Hon Louise Upston (New Zealand National Party — Member for Taupō)

HELEN WHITE: Mālō e lelei. I want to pick up where the last speaker stopped, because he talked about how this is a bill about improving sustainability. I want to take issue with the use of a word like “sustainability”. Because... Read more →

📋 Family carers as unpaid support rather than paid employees

Disability advocates call for drastic changes to support services bill - RNZ What the new Disability Support Services Bill means for disabled people and whānau - CCS Disability Action

HansardID: voice-vote-13d1f85c-e5b0-8980-7033-9cab0ad514dc

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📜 Official Hansard transcript

📋 We've linked this vote to our “Family carers as unpaid support rather than paid employees” policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote for Family carers as unpaid support rather than paid employees.

✓ Passed by a narrow margin (67 Ayes – 55 Noes – 1 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	0	34
New Zealand National	48	0
Te Pāti Māori	0	4