Thursday, 26 June 2014
Vote: Bills — West Coast Wind-blown Timber (Conservation Lands) Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the West Coast Wind-blown Timber (Conservation Lands) Bill be now read a third time
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY (Green): It seems that it is now easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for the Department of Conservation to uphold its fundamental business. It is now easier under the West Coast Wind-blown Timber...
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
(65 Ayes – 51 Noes – 4 Absent)
Hansard recorded how individual MPs from New Zealand Labour Party voted,
but only a single party-wide total for everyone else. That pattern usually means
New Zealand Labour Party allowed a conscience vote while the other parties
whipped a single position.
🏛️ Party breakdown
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| Green Party | 0 | 11 |
| Mana | 0 | 1 |
| Māori Party | 2 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 0 | 7 |
| New Zealand National | 59 | 0 |
| United Future | 1 | 0 |
✓ Ayes (1)
New Zealand Labour Party (1)
- Rino Tirikatene (Member for Te Tai Tonga)
✕ Noes (27)
New Zealand Labour Party (27)
- Carol Beaumont (List Member)
- Hon Dr David Clark (Member for Dunedin North)
- Clayton Cosgrove (List Member)
- David Cunliffe (Member for New Lynn)
- Hon Clare Curran (Member for Dunedin South)
- Hon Kelvin Davis (List Member)
- Ruth Dyson (Member for Port Hills)
- Hon Kris Faafoi (Member for Mana)
- Darien Fenton (List Member)
- Phil Goff (Member for Mount Roskill)
- Hon Chris Hipkins (Member for Rimutaka)
- Raymond Huo (List Member)
- Iain Lees-Galloway (Member for Palmerston North)
- Hon Andrew Little (List Member)
- Moana Lynore Mackey (List Member)
- Hon Nanaia Mahuta (Member for Hauraki-Waikato)
- Sir Rt Hon Trevor Mallard (Member for Hutt South)
- Sue Moroney (List Member)
- Hon David Parker (List Member)
- Rajen Prasad (List Member)
- David Shearer (Member for Mount Albert)
- Hon Aupito William Sio (Member for Māngere)
- Hon Maryan Street (List Member)
- Hon Phil Twyford (Member for Te Atatū)
- Louisa Wall (Member for Manurewa)
- Hon Meka Whaitiri (Member for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti)
- Hon Dr Megan Woods (Member for Wigram)