Marc Goergen is a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Piraten in the Circonscription Sud, with a mandate that started on 2023-10-24.
\n25 June 2024 — stating how tenants have been protected from indexation until now
\n\n\nBis elo war et ëmmer esou, dass de Mieter, de Locataire, ëmmer geschützt war, fir dass en net mat all Indextranche erëm de Verléierer ass.
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Until now it has always been the case that the tenant was protected, so that he does not lose out again with every index tranche.
\n\n3 December 2024 — restating what his motion asks for
\n\n\nAn dat ass eigentlech de Punkt, op dee mer eraus wëllen, dass een, wann een higeet a seet: „Ech verloune mäin Appartement zu engem méi soziale Präis“, dann net vun der Steierverwaltung zousätzlech bestrooft gëtt.
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And that is really the point we are driving at: that someone who says 'I let my flat at a more social price' is then not additionally punished by the tax administration.
\n\n19 November 2025 — stating that public authorities must act on prices
\n\n\nAlso mir Piraten soe scho laang, dass déi ëffentlech Hand dat muss maachen.
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So we Pirates have been saying for a long time that the public authorities must do it.
\n\n9 June 2026 — welcoming the change to home-savings contracts
\n\n\nDass de Bausparvertrag elo eropgesat gëtt, ass eng Moossnam, déi scho laang fälleg war, well hautzudaags ass et net gesot, dass ee sech mat 40 schonn zu Lëtzebuerg en Haus ka leeschten.
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Raising the home-savings contract limit is a measure that was long overdue, because these days it is not a given that you can afford a house in Luxembourg at 40.
\n\n4 March 2025 — stating his support for keeping direct citizen access to the plenary
\n\n\nEch fannen et gutt, wann de Bierger en direkten Accès huet.
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I think it is good when the citizen has direct access.
\n\n4 December 2025 — stating his party's position that citizens should decide between elections too
\n\n\nMir Piraten soe ganz kloer: D’Bierger sollen eng Stëmm hunn, matschwätzen, matmaachen, matentscheeden, mee och ausserhalb vun de Walen.
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We Pirates say very clearly: citizens should have a voice, take part in the discussion, join in, and decide together, and also outside elections.
\n\n4 December 2025 — the author explaining his concern that a deputy's rights were curtailed
\n\n\nEch verstinn d’Intentioun vun Iech derhannert, mee meng Suerg war éischter, dass den Deputéierten an de Rechter beschnidde war, an deem konkreete Fall, par rapport zu der Regierung.
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I understand your intention behind it, but my concern was rather that the deputy was cut back in his rights, in that specific case, compared with the government.
\n\n16 June 2026 — explaining what his motion for a citizens' council would do
\n\n\nDéi Motioun, déi haut zur Diskussioun steet, ass jo de Biergerrot, an dat wär een Outil, fir tëscht deene fënnef oder sechs Joer awer nach eng Kéier op d’Leit kënnen ze lauschteren, neien Input ze kréien an nei Iddien.
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The motion under discussion today is the citizens' council, and that would be a tool to listen to people once more between those five or six years, to get new input and new ideas.
\n\n27 February 2024 — criticising the move from 30 to 60 beds per additional carer as a loss of quality
\n\n\nEch fannen et jo eebe bedenklech an der Qualitéit, well Der elo vun deenen 30 op 60 Better gitt.
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I find it worrying for quality, because you are now going from 30 to 60 beds.
\n\n14 March 2024 — criticising the situation of idle equipment while patients wait more than a year for appointments
\n\n\nWell et ka jo net sinn, dass een op där enger Säit iwwer ee Joer muss op Rendez-vouse waarden an op där anerer Säit de Stëbs op den Apparater läit, déi eigentlech funktiounstüchteg wären.
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It cannot be that on one side you wait over a year for an appointment and on the other side dust settles on machines that would actually work.
\n\n7 May 2024 — stating that nuclear-related shares have fallen in recent years
\n\n\nA wann ee kuckt, wéi et sech an de leschte Joren entwéckelt huet, sinn d’Aktie vun allem, wat Atom ass, éischter erofgaange wéi ëmgedréit.
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And if you look at how it has developed in recent years, the shares of everything nuclear have gone down rather than the other way round.
\n\n3 July 2024 — announcing his group will vote against the bill on social grounds
\n\n\nAlso mir kënnen déi Direktiv hei net matstëmmen an dat Gesetz och net, well eis sozial Oder seet, dass dat doten eng Sauerei ass!
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So we cannot vote for this directive, nor for this law, because our social vein says that this is a disgrace!
\n\n22 January 2025 — challenging the previous speaker's warning to young people about crypto volatility
\n\n\nRéit d’LSAP deene Jonken dann och dovunner of, op enger Finanzplaz aktiv ze ginn?
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Does the LSAP also advise young people against becoming active on a financial market?
\n\n15 October 2025 — warning that fraud cases put the reputation of the financial centre at risk
\n\n\nWell mir setzen hei net nëmmen d’Erspuertes vun de Leit op d’Spill, mir setzen och d’Renommée vun eiser Finanzplaz op d’Spill!
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Because here we are putting at stake not only people's savings, we are also putting at stake the reputation of our financial centre!
\n\n15 May 2024 — proposing that military sites be hidden from freely accessible online maps
\n\n\nGrad wa mer elo en neie baue bezéiungsweis renovéieren, wär et vläicht de Moment fir ze soen: Mir kucken, dass eis militäresch Infrastrukturen net fräi am Internet ze kucke sinn.
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Just as we are now building or renovating one, this might be the moment to say: we make sure that our military infrastructure cannot be viewed freely on the internet.
\n\n5 March 2026 — backing the soldiers' demand that the indemnity count towards their pension
\n\n\nEt ass eng Demande gewiescht vun den Zaldoten, dass se och eng gewësse Sécherheet herno hu fir hir Pensiounen. Dat ass ganz kloer an dat ass och verständlech.
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It has been a demand of the soldiers that they also have a certain security later on for their pensions. That is very clear and it is understandable.
\n\n1 February 2024 — asking the minister whether shopkeepers on Howald will be compensated quickly for building-site losses
\n\n\nAn do ass da meng Fro un d’Ministesch: Kënnen dann déi Geschäftsleit um Houwald elo dermat rechnen, dass se schnell Entschiedegunge kréien?
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And so my question to the minister is: can the shopkeepers on Howald now count on getting compensation quickly?
\n\n14 November 2024 — objecting to air tickets sold below the level of the taxes
\n\n\nMir maachen awer drop opmierksam, dass et net ka sinn, dass Fligerticketen ënnert dësen Taxen als deloyal Konkurrenz fir eis national Fluchgesellschaft verkaf ginn.
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But we point out that it cannot be that air tickets are sold below these taxes as unfair competition for our national airline.
\n\n20 November 2025 — rejecting the motion as unrelated to the incident that triggered it
\n\n\nDéi Motioun hei ass a sech Kabes, well se guer näischt ze dinn huet mat deem Incident, deen do virgefall ass.
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This motion is nonsense in itself, because it has nothing at all to do with the incident that happened.
\n\n29 April 2026 — criticising private bus operators for profiting from the school transport contracts
\n\n\nHei ass elo eng Privatbranche, déi matkritt huet, dass hei Milliounen ze verdénge sinn.
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Here we now have a private branch that has realised that there are millions to be earned here.
\n\n25 April 2024 — stating what the motion is about
\n\n\nHei geet et drëm, dass eng nei Datebank soll geschaaft ginn.
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The point here is that a new database is to be created.
\n\n30 April 2025 — setting out a transparency requirement for any data the State collects
\n\n\nZu all Moment muss de Bierger wëssen, wéini a wou wéi eng Daten erhuewe ginn a wat domat gemaach gëtt.
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At every moment the citizen must know when and where which data are collected and what is done with them.
\n\n18 November 2025 — citing the share of jobs that his written question found would be unaffected by AI
\n\n\nWell ech hat schonn eng Question parlementaire gestallt, an do ass erauskomm, dass nëmmen 22 % vun den Aarbechtsplazen net wäerte betraff si vun der KI.
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Because I already asked a parliamentary question, and it came out that only 22 percent of jobs will not be affected by AI.
\n\n4 March 2026 — arguing that open source, not commercial foreign suppliers, was the right answer
\n\n\nEt ass a sech en Theema, wou mer elo scho Joerzéngten – net Joerzéngten, esou laang gëtt et d’Piraten nach net, mee Joren – gesot hunn, dass Open Source eigentlech d’Léisung gewiescht wär an net, op kommerziell Firmen ze setzen, déi aus den USA oder anere Länner kommen.
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It is in fact a topic where for decades now, not decades, the Pirates have not existed that long, but for years, we have said that open source would actually have been the solution and not relying on commercial firms that come from the USA or other countries.
\n\n7 May 2024 — calling for a European industry able to build solar, wind and storage
\n\n\nMir brauchen eng europäesch Industrie, déi rëm selwer Solar ka bauen, déi selwer ka Wand bauen, déi awer och kann déi néideg Späichere bauen.
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We need a European industry that can build solar itself again, that can build wind itself, and that can also build the storage we need.
\n\n22 October 2024 — warning that heavier energy charges on firms would push them towards dirty energy
\n\n\nWell wa mer eis Betriber herno nach méi belaaschten um Energiemarché, da ginn déi herno nach éischter knaschteg Energië wéi Pëtrol kafen, wéi op déi erneierbar ëmzeklammen.
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Because if we then burden our businesses even more on the energy market, they will sooner buy dirty energy such as oil than switch to renewables.
\n\n22 January 2025 — explaining the asymmetry the motion targets between consumed and fed-in electricity
\n\n\nWann Der erausgitt, wat Der iwwerproduzéiert, kritt Der déi 11 Cent awer net erëm.
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When you give out what you overproduce, you do not get those 11 cents back.
\n\n9 June 2026 — regretting that electric cars get no cut equal to the fuel cut
\n\n\nEt wär méi flott gewiescht, wann Der gesot hätt, d’Elektroautoe kréiche genausou eng Reduktioun wéi och d’Pëtrolsprodukter.
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It would have been nicer if you had said that electric cars get the same reduction as petroleum products.
\n\n10 February 2026 — welcoming stronger controls on animal transports
\n\n\nEt ass natierlech gutt, wann d’Déierentransporter elo wäerte méi kontrolléiert ginn.
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It is of course good that animal transports will now be checked more.
\n\n30 April 2026 — proposing a penalty tax on supermarkets that throw away food they could donate
\n\n\nMir hunn och do nach eng aner Iddi, déi vill méi wäit geet, an zwar, dass d’Supermarchéen eng Strofsteier solle bezuelen, wa se Artikelen ewechgeheien, déi se hätte kënne spenden, sief dat zum Beispill fir d’Street Angels, déi et herno verdeelen, fir d’Cent-Butteker oder aner Infrastrukturen.
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We also have another idea that goes much further: supermarkets should pay a penalty tax if they throw away items they could have donated, for example to the Street Angels who then distribute them, to the Cent Buttek shops or to other structures.
\n\n12 December 2024 — stating that the minimum wage is too low to live on
\n\n\nWell de Mindestloun hei zu Lëtzebuerg geet nun emol net duer, fir ze liewen oder ze iwwerliewen.
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Because the minimum wage here in Luxembourg is simply not enough to live or to survive on.
\n\n14 October 2025 — arguing that a higher minimum wage feeds back into consumption
\n\n\nMir sinn nämlech der Meenung, dass wann een de Leit méi Geld gëtt fir ze liewen, da wäerte se och méi konsuméieren, anstatt dass ee se kleng hält a se da manner konsuméieren.
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We take the view that if you give people more money to live on, they will also consume more, instead of being kept small and then consuming less.
\n\n2 May 2024 — stating what the 2022 salary accord committed the government to
\n\n\nEt geet haut dorëms, dass am Accord salarial vun 2022 d’Regierung en Engagement hat, fir kee Bewäertungssystem méi am ganzen ëffentlechen Déngscht ze applizéieren.
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Today the point is that in the 2022 salary accord the government made a commitment to apply no evaluation system any more in the whole public service.
\n\n30 October 2025 — stating that the CGFP asked the health minister in writing five months ago for talks on the bill
\n\n\nD’CGFP huet am Mee, also viru fënnef Méint, d’Gesondheetsministesch per Bréif opgefuerdert, mat hir iwwert dëse Projet ze schwätzen.
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In May, that is five months ago, the CGFP asked the health minister by letter to talk with it about this bill.
\n\n25 April 2024 — welcoming the compromise on which projects go to committee
\n\n\nDofir ass et och wichteg, dass mer dee Kompromëss fonnt hunn, dass mer bei manner wéi 30 Milliounen an der Chamberskommissioun driwwer schwätzen.
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That is why it is also important that we found this compromise, that for less than 30 million we discuss it in the parliamentary committee.
\n\n9 June 2026 — pointing out that the price rises also raised state revenue
\n\n\nAlleguerten déi Haussen, déi elo do waren, hu jo awer och schéin de Staatssäckelche gutt gefëllt.
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All the price rises we have just had also filled the state purse nicely.
\n\n3 March 2026 — supporting the study but putting children's wellbeing ahead of the language question
\n\n\nEch ginn Iech och Recht, dass méi Lëtzebuergesch muss geschwat ginn, mee dat ass net meng Prioritéit.
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I also agree with you that more Luxembourgish must be spoken, but that is not my priority.
\n\n30 April 2026 — arguing that Luxembourg must keep relying on English for the financial centre
\n\n\nWa mer eis Finanzplaz wëlle weiderhi stäerken, wa mer weiderhi wëlle staark bleiwen als Land, muss Lëtzebuerg och weiderhin op d’Englescht setzen.
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If we want to keep strengthening our financial centre and stay strong as a country, Luxembourg must continue to rely on English.
\n\n18 November 2025 — criticising the size of the sum against the jobs it supports
\n\n\nJo, all Respekt fir déi Aarbechtsplazen, mee mat 180 Millioune kéint Der warscheinlech jiddereen, deen zu Lëtzebuerg schafft, an deene véier Joer cash ausbezuelen, well méi Aarbechtsplaze wäerten et net sinn.
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Yes, all respect for those jobs, but with 180 million you could probably pay everyone who works in Luxembourg in cash over those four years, because there will not be more jobs than that.
\n\n3 December 2025 — accusing other members of not caring about industrial heritage in the south
\n\n\nEch verstinn net, dass verschiddene Leit de Patrimoine am Süden hei net wichteg ass.
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I do not understand that the heritage in the south is not important to some people here.
\n\n13 February 2025 — stating that Luxembourg still imports nuclear electricity
\n\n\nEt ass awer och esou, dass Lëtzebuerg nach ëmmer och Atomstroum importéiert.
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But it is also the case that Luxembourg still imports nuclear electricity.
\n\n11 February 2026 — arguing that refurbishing old reactors would have raised nuclear costs
\n\n\nWann een awer elo d’Renovatioun gemaach hätt, fir dat erëm sécherzestellen, wär den Atom vill méi deier ginn.
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But if the refurbishment had been done to make it safe again, nuclear would have become much more expensive.
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\n\n\nEen, deen d’Moyenen huet, fir sech en Haus ze kafen, kann et op senger Steiererklärung ofsetzen.
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Someone who has the means to buy a house can deduct it on their tax return.
\n\n\nEng national Reform op esou enger Basis opzebauen ass onverantwortlech.
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To build a national reform on such a basis is irresponsible.
\n\n\nMee wann Der awer Steiergelder wëllt huele vum Lëtzebuerger Staat, fir auslännesch Entreprisen iwwert de Camion ze finanzéieren, dat kënne mir net matstëmmen.
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But if you want to take tax money from the Luxembourg state to finance foreign companies through their lorries, we cannot vote for that.
\n\n\nEt stinn immens vill Aarbechtsplazen hei um Spill an et ass net esou, wéi d’Regierung oder och elo d’Majoritéitsparteie soen, dass de Sozialdialog zu Lëtzebuerg esou géing fonctionéieren.
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A very large number of jobs are at stake here, and it is not the case, as the government or now also the majority parties say, that social dialogue in Luxembourg works like that.
\n\n\nDat heescht, ech warne ganz kloer virdrun: Iwwerleet Iech nach eng Kéier, ob Der dee Mercosur do wäert matdroen.
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So I warn very clearly: think again about whether you will support this Mercosur agreement.
\n\n\nEt sinn nämlech ganz vill Leit, och wa se schaffen, déi mussen a Strukture goen, fir dass se eppes ze iesse kréien.
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There are in fact very many people, even when they work, who have to go to facilities in order to get something to eat.
\n\n\nOb d’Regierung net gewëllt ass, iergendeng Formule ze fannen – ech weess, et ass komplizéiert –, wéi een d’Drénkgeld anescht reegele ka wéi de Salaire.
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Whether the government is not willing to find some formula - I know it is complicated - for regulating tips differently from wages.
\n\n\nMir kruten och an der Chamber hei – an ech hunn dat an de Rapporten nogelies, och an de Rieden nogelies – versprach, dass en Dezember lescht Joer sollt fonctionéieren.
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We were also promised here in the Chamber, and I read this in the reports and in the speeches, that it should be working last December.
\n\n\nEch verstinn net, wéi een dat heite kann ofleenen, wann am Gesetzestext steet, dass d’Mënscherechtskommissioun genau dat soll maachen.
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I do not understand how one can reject this when the text of the law says that the human rights commission is to do exactly that.
\n\n\nMir Piraten, mir sti ganz kloer derzou, dass d’Communautéit soll d’Méiglechkeet kréien, och kënnen ze liewen, an dass déi Communautéit respektéiert gëtt.
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We Pirates stand very clearly for the community also being able to live, and for that community being respected.
\n\n\nAn hei ass nämlech de Problem, dass déi Kontrollen net stattfonnt hunn.
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And here the problem is precisely that the controls did not take place.
\n\n\nDo war et mir awer ganz wichteg, dass mer d’Transparenz bäibehalen, dass mer net einfach soen: „De Seuil vun der Motioun geet erop op déi 30 Milliounen“, well déi ënnendrënner géifen da verluer goen.
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There it was very important to me that we keep transparency, that we do not simply say: “The threshold for the motion goes up to 30 million”, because the ones below that would then be lost.
\n\n\nAn du war ech gëschter Owend, jo, scho bal erschreckt, wéi ech dann am „Wort“ gelies hunn, dass Dir dann elo aus anere Policebüroen, fir Äert Heescheverbuet ëmzesetzen, géift Leit ofzéien.
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And yesterday evening I was almost shocked when I read in the Wort that you are now pulling people out of other police stations to enforce your begging ban.
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