Thursday, 24 May 2012
Vote: Bills — Social Security (Long-term Residential Care—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Hon Paula Bennett
(New Zealand National Party — Member for Waitakere)
ALFRED NGARO (National): I mentioned these documents because we were accused for quite some time throughout this morning of the fact that information that was there was not there—and yet it was there. Enough with that debate; this is about... Read more →
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
(64 Ayes – 54 Noes – 3 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 | 1 | 0 |
| Green Party | 0 | 11 |
| Mana | 0 | 1 |
| Māori Party | 3 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 0 | 8 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 34 |
| New Zealand National | 59 | 0 |
| United Future | 1 | 0 |