{"id":"deputies/mandy-minella","title":"Mandy Minella","type":"deputy","party":"DP","circonscription":"Circonscription Sud","html":"<p>Mandy Minella is a member of the Chamber of Deputies for <a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdp\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dp\">DP</a> in the Circonscription Sud, with a mandate that started on 2023-11-21.</p>\n<h2>Education and schools</h2>\n<p>13 February 2025 — proposing an adjusted primary-school timetable on the Sanem model</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ech géing d’Iddi vun engem Horaire aménagé an der Primärschoul begréissen, esou, wéi zum Beispill de Kannercampus zu Suessem dat elo scho mécht.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>I would welcome the idea of an adjusted timetable in primary school, as the Kannercampus in Sanem already does, for example.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-02-13-n067\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-02-13-n067\">Sitting of 13 February 2025</a></p>\n<p>13 February 2025 — stating when the current primary-school timetable was first fixed</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Här President, den aktuelle Stonneplang vun de Primärschoulen zu Lëtzebuerg gouf fir d’éischt mam groussherzogleche Reglement vun 1968 festgeluecht.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>Mr President, the current primary-school timetable in Luxembourg was first fixed by the Grand-Ducal regulation of 1968.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-02-13-n067\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-02-13-n067\">Sitting of 13 February 2025</a></p>\n<h2>Health system and care</h2>\n<p>27 February 2024 — presenting the report and stating that staffing will still rise despite the lowered requirements</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Och wann d’Ufuerderungen also liicht zréckgeschrauft ginn, wäert awer an Zukunft méi Personal an de Strukture present sinn, wéi dat momentan de Fall ass, fir eng beschtméiglech Betreiung ze assuréieren.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>Even though the requirements are lowered slightly, more staff will be present in the structures in future than is currently the case, to assure the best possible care.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-02-27-n012\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-02-27-n012\">Sitting of 27 February 2024</a></p>\n<p>13 February 2025 — stating the share of 11 to 18 year olds in Luxembourg who were obese in 2021</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Leider gesäit d’Realitéit awer anescht aus: 21 % vun den 11- bis 18-järege Kanner zu Lëtzebuerg waren 2021 obèse.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>Unfortunately the reality looks different: 21 % of 11 to 18 year old children in Luxembourg were obese in 2021.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-02-13-n067\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-02-13-n067\">Sitting of 13 February 2025</a></p>\n<h2>Poverty and social benefits</h2>\n<p>1 February 2024 — saying society, not the child, should be ashamed if poverty is not ended</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mee et ass ëmmer nach eis Gesellschaft, déi sech schumme muss, wa mir et net fäerdegbréngen, der Aarmut, a virop der Kanneraarmut, en Enn ze setzen.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>But it is still our society that has to be ashamed if we do not manage to put an end to poverty, and above all to child poverty.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-02-01-n011\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-02-01-n011\">Sitting of 1 February 2024</a></p>\n<p>4 December 2024 — reporting what bill 8424 does</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>De Gesetzesprojet 8424 dréit dësen Iwwerleeunge Rechnung an huet d’Zil, den ECI fir d’Beneficiairë vum REVIS a vum RPGH ze perenniséieren.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>Bill 8424 takes account of these considerations and aims to make the ECI permanent for recipients of REVIS and RPGH.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-04-n049\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-04-n049\">Sitting of 4 December 2024</a></p>\n<p>19 December 2024 — stating the purpose of the bill she reports on</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Esou soll een ze groussen Ecart tëschent dëse Revenuen an dem soziale Mindestloun evitéiert an déi vulnerabelst Persounen an eiser Gesellschaft ënnerstëtzt ginn.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>This is meant to avoid too large a gap between these incomes and the social minimum wage, and to support the most vulnerable people in our society.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-19-n058\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-19-n058\">Sitting of 19 December 2024</a></p>\n<p>29 April 2026 — stating how many entitled people do not claim the rent subsidy</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>75 % vun de Persounen, déi eng Subvention loyer zegutt hätten, froe se net un.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>75% of the people who would be entitled to a rent subsidy do not apply for it.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-04-29-n138\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-04-29-n138\">Sitting of 29 April 2026</a></p>\n<h2>Sport</h2>\n<p>3 July 2024 — asking the minister whether the needs of the federations have been analysed</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gouf schonn eng Analys mat de Verbänn gemaach, wat de Besoin um Terrain genee ass?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>Has an analysis already been made with the federations of what the need on the ground actually is?</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-07-03-n036\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-07-03-n036\">Sitting of 3 July 2024</a></p>\n<p>13 February 2025 — announcing that she will advise her group not to vote for the motion</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dofir géif ech menger Fraktioun proposéieren, dës Motioun net matzestëmmen.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>I would therefore propose to my group not to vote for this motion.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-02-13-n067\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-02-13-n067\">Sitting of 13 February 2025</a></p>\n<p>9 July 2025 — proposing an ethics charter tied to subsidies instead of the audit asked for in the motion</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Eise Virschlag ass awer éischter, eng Charte d’éthique et de déontologie anzeféieren an dës un den Nationbranding ze koppelen oder un d’Subsiden, déi de Ministère de Federatiounen zoukomme léisst.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>Our proposal is rather to introduce a charter of ethics and deontology and to tie it to nation branding or to the subsidies the ministry grants to the federations.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-07-09-n093\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-07-09-n093\">Sitting of 9 July 2025</a></p>\n<p>18 March 2026 — criticising the years without a safeguarding contact point or an ethics charter</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An awer sinn et elo schonn eng ganz Rei Joren, dass mer keng Ulafstell hu fir de Safeguarding, keng Charte d’éthique. An ech mengen, et gëtt wierklech héich Zäit, fir elo Neel mat Käpp ze maachen.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>And yet it is now already a good number of years that we have no contact point for safeguarding, no ethics charter. And I think it really is high time to get things done now.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-03-18-n134\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-03-18-n134\">Sitting of 18 March 2026</a></p>\n<h2>Gender equality and women’s rights</h2>\n<p>13 June 2024 — backing the motion for the DP group</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Et ass eng pertinent Motioun, déi ech der DP-Fraktioun proposéiere matzedroen.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>It is a pertinent motion, which I propose that the DP group supports.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-06-13-n031\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-06-13-n031\">Sitting of 13 June 2024</a></p>\n<p>10 October 2024 — reporting what the bill changes about the observatory's remit</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>De Gesetzestext, dee mir haut stëmme wäerten, schwätzt awer vun engem Observatoire, dee sech mat der Gläichstellung vun alle Geschlechter beschäftege wäert.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>The legal text that we will vote on today, however, speaks of an observatory that will deal with equality between all genders.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-10-10-n041\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-10-10-n041\">Sitting of 10 October 2024</a></p>\n<p>12 February 2026 — stating the implementation status of the national action plan</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Den nationalen Aktiounsplang ass amgaangen, mat alle concernéierte Ministèren ëmgesat ze ginn.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>The national action plan is being implemented together with all the ministries concerned.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-02-12-n127\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-02-12-n127\">Sitting of 12 February 2026</a></p>\n<h2>Also spoke on</h2>\n<p>One recorded quote each, so these are single entries rather than timelines.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fasylum-and-migration\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/asylum-and-migration\">Asylum, migration and borders</a>, 22 January 2025, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-01-22-n061\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-01-22-n061\">Sitting of 22 January 2025</a></li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Et handelt sech hei ëm Leit, déi um Enn vun der Prozedur sinn, déi debouté sinn, déi vun de Geriichter, net vun der Politick, net vun der Regierung, d’Decisioun kruten, dass se net kënne bleiwen.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>These are people at the end of the procedure, who have been refused, who received the decision from the courts, not from politics, not from the government, that they cannot stay.</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fwages-and-purchasing-power\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/wages-and-purchasing-power\">Wages, minimum wage and purchasing power</a>, 19 December 2024, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-19-n058\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-19-n058\">Sitting of 19 December 2024</a></li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A wéi de Minister virdru bemierkt huet, gëtt d’Erhéijung vum REVIS a vum RPGH jo automatesch ëmmer un de Mindestloun gekoppelt.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>And as the minister remarked earlier, the increase of the REVIS and of the RPGH is always automatically linked to the minimum wage.</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fpublic-administration\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/public-administration\">Public service and administration</a>, 3 December 2024, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-03-n048\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-03-n048\">Sitting of 3 December 2024</a></li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Eng Gesellschaft muss sech doru moossen, wéi si mat deene Leit ëmgeet, déi schlecht dru sinn.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>A society must be measured by how it treats the people who are badly off.</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fluxembourgish-language\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/luxembourgish-language\">The Luxembourgish language and integration</a>, 30 April 2026, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-04-30-n139\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-04-30-n139\">Sitting of 30 April 2026</a></li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Eng Sprooch léiert een am beschten, wa se am Alldag geschwat gëtt an net, wa se genotzt gëtt, fir anerer auszeschléissen, well soss riskéiere mir nämlech genau de Contraire.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>You learn a language best when it is spoken in daily life, not when it is used to exclude others, because otherwise we risk exactly the opposite.</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fcaritas-affair\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/caritas-affair\">The Caritas fraud and state funding of NGOs</a>, 30 April 2026, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2026-04-30-n139\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2026-04-30-n139\">Sitting of 30 April 2026</a></li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Verschidde Remarken, déi och am Spezialrapport vun der Cour des comptes opgeworf gi sinn, wéi de Manktem un Harmoniséierung a gewësse prozedural Lacunnen, erfuerderen och net onbedéngt eng legislativ Reform.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>Several remarks raised in the Court of Auditors' special report, such as the lack of harmonisation and certain procedural gaps, do not necessarily require a legislative reform.</em></p>"}