Taina Bofferding is a member of the Chamber of Deputies for LSAP in the Circonscription Sud, with a mandate that started on 2023-11-21.
\n23 November 2023 — supporting a national housing round table that her party had demanded
\n\n\nMir hunn dat jo gefuerdert, well et wichteg ass, dass déi verschidden Acteuren aus dem Secteur zesummekommen, dat och zesumme mat der Politick.
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We did demand that, because it is important that the various actors from the sector come together, and together with politics too.
\n\n12 June 2024 — stating that the housing bills she names were tabled and are still in procedure
\n\n\nDéi Projete sinn deposéiert, nach eng Kéier fir ze präziséieren, an et ass net, wéi wa se géifen am Tirang leien a se wären net weiderkomm.
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Those bills have been tabled, to make it clear once more, and it is not as if they were lying in a drawer and had not moved on.
\n\n14 May 2025 — demanding that the government switch to crisis mode on housing
\n\n\nWat mir fuerderen, ass, dass d’Regierung endlech am Logement an de Krisemodus eriwwergeet, dass se hei déi richteg Prioritéite setzt: Leerstand, d’Loyere mussen endlech erfaasst ginn.
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What we demand is that the government finally switches to crisis mode on housing and sets the right priorities here: vacancy and rents must at last be recorded.
\n\n9 June 2026 — describing the government's plan for home-savings contracts
\n\n\nOp Ärem Paper steet, dass Der gären d’Alterslimitt bei de Bausparverträg wëllt ofschafen.
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Your paper says that you want to remove the age limit on home-savings contracts.
\n\n23 November 2023 — answering the prime minister's call for a government able to act, with a call for a strong opposition
\n\n\nEch sinn iwwerzeegt, dass d’Leit och genausou séier eng staark, kompetent a bestëmmt Oppositioun wëlle gesinn.
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I am convinced that people also want to see a strong, competent and determined opposition just as quickly.
\n\n10 October 2024 — explaining why her group votes for the resolution
\n\n\nEsou wéi aner Resolutiounen haut schonn, wou mer en Zeeche setzen, setze mer och hei ganz kloer en Zeechen, en Zeeche vun der Unerkennung, vun der Ënnerstëtzung, vum Respekt.
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Just as with other resolutions today where we send a signal, here too we send a very clear signal, a signal of recognition, of support, of respect.
\n\n8 July 2025 — asserting the elected deputies' right to put questions to ministers
\n\n\nDofir hu mer duerchaus d’Recht an et ass och eist Recht, Froen ze stellen.
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So we have every right, and it is our right, to ask questions.
\n\n9 June 2026 — distinguishing the need to legislate from the way parliament was treated
\n\n\nMir kritiséieren net dʼNoutwendegkeet, dass muss legiferéiert ginn – däers si mer eis alleguerte bewosst –, mir kritiséieren awer dʼAart a Weis, wéi hei mat der Chamber a mat eis ëmgaange gëtt.
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We do not criticise the need to legislate. We are all aware of it. We criticise the way the Chamber and we ourselves are being treated here.
\n\n23 November 2023 — criticising the distribution of the announced tax relief
\n\n\nWéi gesot: D’Gewënner bei dëser Regierung sinn also déi, deenen et elo haut scho gutt geet.
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As I said: the winners under this government are therefore those who are already doing well today.
\n\n12 June 2024 — arguing that adjusting the tax table for index brackets is not social policy
\n\n\nAn da wëll ech awer och soen, dass Indextranchë berengege keng Sozialpolitick ass, well am Endeffekt kréien déi, déi haut scho vill hunn, mengen ech, mat finanzielle Moyenen, mat de Suen, nach weesentlech méi bäi wéi déi, déi haut wéineg hunn.
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And I also want to say that adjusting the tax table for index brackets is not social policy, because in the end those who already have a lot today get considerably more than those who have little today.
\n\n19 March 2025 — saying her party could imagine a levy on robot work and artificial intelligence
\n\n\nEng Abgab op Roboteraarbecht a KI kéinte mer eis och virstellen.
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We could also imagine a levy on robot work and AI.
\n\n18 December 2025 — preferring a tax credit to the allowance the bill creates
\n\n\nMir verschléissen eis net der Iddi, d’Leit ze motivéieren, ze incitéieren, méi laang schaffen ze goen. Mir fanne just, dass d’Instrument vum Abattement definitiv dat Falscht ass.
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We are not closed to the idea of motivating people to work longer. We simply think the instrument of a tax allowance is definitely the wrong one.
\n\n23 November 2023 — asking that the education minister come before the competent committee to explain the plans
\n\n\nAn dofir hätte mir gären, dass den Educatiounsminister wéi iwwregens och alleguerten déi aner Ministeren an déi zoustänneg Chamberskommissioune kommen, fir dat dote méi am Detail kënnen ze erklären a fir mat eis och kënnen d’Diskussioun ze féieren.
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And so we would like the education minister, as indeed all the other ministers, to come to the competent Chamber committees, to be able to explain this in more detail and to hold the discussion with us.
\n\n14 May 2025 — criticising the Prime Minister for not speaking about schools
\n\n\nAbee, Här Premierminister, et muss ee soen, datt Der et an där annerhallwer Stonn, wou Der eebe gëschter Är Ried gehalen hutt, wou Der Är Visioun fir Lëtzebuerg präisginn hutt, net fäerdegbruecht hutt, iwwert d’Schoulen ze schwätzen.
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Well, Prime Minister, one has to say that in the hour and a half of your speech yesterday, where you set out your vision for Luxembourg, you did not manage to speak about schools.
\n\n20 May 2026 — stating that school should act as a social lift
\n\n\nD’Schoul soll de soziale Lift sinn, deen et erméiglecht, datt Kanner aus bescheidene Verhältnisser weiderkommen, sech emanzipéieren an aktiv un der Gesellschaft deelhuelen.
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School should be the social lift that lets children from modest backgrounds get ahead, emancipate themselves and take an active part in society.
\n\n23 November 2023 — criticising the health chapter as containing nothing new
\n\n\nBen jo, dat ass gutt, mee och hei: Et ass näischt Neies. Et si keng nei Mesüren, déi Dir proposéiert.
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Well yes, that is good, but here too: it is nothing new. These are not new measures that you are proposing.
\n\n8 July 2025 — tabling a motion to extend the abortion time limit from 12 to 14 weeks
\n\n\nEch deposéieren hei am Numm vun der LSAP eng Motioun, woura mer eeben nach eng Kéier op d’Fristeverlängerung zréckkommen, vun 12 op 14 Wochen.
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I table here, on behalf of the LSAP, a motion in which we come back once more to the extension of the time limit, from 12 to 14 weeks.
\n\n18 November 2025 — citing 81 suicides in 2015 against 48 in 2023 to argue that the prevention plan works
\n\n\nAn d’Erfarung huet gewisen, dass et wierkt, well virun zéng Joer, 2015, hate mer hei zu Lëtzebuerg nach 81 Suicidefäll an 2023, wéi gesot, waren et der 48.
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And experience has shown that it works, because ten years ago, in 2015, we still had 81 suicides here in Luxembourg, and in 2023, as I said, there were 48.
\n\n20 May 2026 — explaining why her group backs the motion
\n\n\nMir stëmmen dat heite mat, well do eng Rëtsch Punkten dra sinn, déi mir och schonn an der Vergaangenheet ëmgesat haten, wéi mer d’Verantwortung am Gesondheetsministère haten, eebe justement d’Iwwersiicht vun de Profiller, déi an der Medezinn gebraucht ginn, fir och de Rekrutement ze kucken: Wou sollen d’Leit agesat ginn?
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We are voting for this, because it contains a series of points that we already implemented in the past, when we held the health ministry, namely the overview of the profiles needed in medicine, in order to look at recruitment: where should people be deployed?
\n\n23 November 2023 — asking that half of the CO2 tax revenue be earmarked for social compensation measures
\n\n\nAllerdéngs hätte mer et besser fonnt, wann hei am Accord méi preziséiert gi wier, dass virun allem de soziale Kompensatiounsmoossnamen d’Hallschent vun de Recettë vun der CO2-Steier zeguttkomm wären, sou wéi dat och schonn déi lescht Jore versicht ginn ass ze maachen.
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However, we would have found it better if it had been made more precise here in the agreement that above all half of the revenue from the CO2 tax would go to social compensation measures, as has already been attempted in recent years.
\n\n24 April 2024 — stating the 2030 emissions reduction target set by the national energy and climate plan
\n\n\nBis 2030 sollen eis Zäregasemissiounen ëm 55 % erofgoe par rapport zu 2005.
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By 2030 our greenhouse gas emissions are to fall by 55 % compared with 2005.
\n\n20 May 2026 — calling for a turn away from oil towards the electric age
\n\n\nDeemno ass d’Zäit elo, fir dem Pëtrol de Réck ze dréinen an de Stecker vum Elektrozäitalter anzestiechen.
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So now is the time to turn our back on oil and plug in the electric age.
\n\n12 June 2024 — stating that subsidies for solar panels, electric cars and electric bikes are being cut
\n\n\nEt gëtt nämlech manner Subside fir d’Fotovoltaikanlagen, et gëtt och manner Subside fir d’Elektroautoen an och manner fir d’Elektrovëloen.
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There are fewer subsidies for photovoltaic installations, fewer subsidies for electric cars and fewer for electric bikes.
\n\n18 December 2024 — supporting the motion as a way to measure the impact on households
\n\n\nAn hei geet et jo just drëm, ze kucken, wéi een Impakt dat elo huet fir déi Menagen, well mer jo wëssen, dass am Januar de Stroum fir jiddereen hei am Land an d’Luucht wäert goen.
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And here it is only about looking at what impact this now has for households, because we know that in January electricity will go up for everyone in this country.
\n\n14 May 2025 — stating her party's demand for energy policy
\n\n\nMir wëllen eng responsabel a sozial Energiepolitick, fir Präisser an de Grëff ze kréien an och d’Zukunft ze plangen.
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We want a responsible and social energy policy, to get prices under control and also to plan the future.
\n\n9 June 2026 — accepting the fossil price brake only as a temporary measure
\n\n\nEng Präisbrems op fossillen Energien ass fir eis akzeptabel, soulaang se nëmmen temporär ass, well laangfristeg musse mer eis Ofhängegkeet vu fossillen Energië reduzéieren a komplett op erneierbar Energië setzen.
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A price brake on fossil energy is acceptable to us as long as it is only temporary, because in the long run we must reduce our dependence on fossil energy and go fully for renewables.
\n\n19 March 2025 — naming a raise of the retirement age as a red line for her party
\n\n\nEis drëtt rout Linn betrëfft de Pensiounsalter. En Eropsetze vum Pensiounsalter ass fir eis en absolutten No-Go.
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Our third red line concerns the retirement age. Raising the retirement age is an absolute no-go for us.
\n\n14 May 2025 — rejecting the direction of the announced pension reform
\n\n\nZënter gëschter wësse mer dann endlech, wou et a Richtung Pensioune soll higoen. An do soe mir ganz kloer: Dat ass definitiv de falsche Wee.
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Since yesterday we finally know where pensions are meant to go. And there we say very clearly: that is definitely the wrong way.
\n\n14 May 2025 — stating that the plan obliges people to contribute and therefore to work longer
\n\n\nHei geet et drëms, dass Leit méi musse cotiséieren, ergo och méi laang musse schaffe goen.
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Here it is about people having to contribute more, and therefore also having to work longer.
\n\n2 July 2024 — stating a figure on repeat offenders removed from the household
\n\n\nA vun deenen Täter, déi hu missen de Stot verloossen, waren der 52 Widderhuelungstäter.
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And of the offenders who had to leave the household, 52 were repeat offenders.
\n\n2 July 2024 — arguing that work with offenders is also victim protection
\n\n\nEt ass wichteg, dass mer nach méi de Bléck op d’Täter riichten, well Täteraarbecht ass och Afferschutz.
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It is important that we look even more at the offenders, because work with offenders is also victim protection.
\n\n20 May 2026 — proposing a 38-hour week and a sixth week of leave in the private sector
\n\n\nAn dofir plädéiere mer fir eng 38-Stonne-Woch, aus der selwechter Iwwerzeegung och fir eng sechste Congéswoch am Privé, well am ëffentleche Secteur hu mer se jo schonn.
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And so we argue for a 38-hour week, and out of the same conviction for a sixth week of leave in the private sector, because in the public sector we already have it.
\n\n9 June 2026 — saying her party wanted a structural minimum wage rise instead
\n\n\nMir hätten eis, an dat wëll ech och ganz éierlech soen, eng strukturell Erhéijung gewënscht, dat wësst Der.
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We would have wanted, and I say this quite honestly, a structural increase, as you know.
\n\n23 November 2023 — concluding her criticism of the announced reinforcement of the Platzverweis
\n\n\nAn dofir ass et fir eis ganz kloer, dass mer mussen d’Aarmut bekämpfen an net déi Aarm.
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And so it is very clear for us that we have to fight poverty and not the poor.
\n\n12 June 2024 — criticising the majority for rejecting her anti-poverty motion
\n\n\nMir fannen et schued, dass Der et einfach elo hei erëm nidderschmettert, nëmme well et vun der Oppositioun kënnt.
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We think it is a pity that you simply strike it down again here, only because it comes from the opposition.
\n\n19 March 2025 — proposing a minimum pension rise of at least 300 euro
\n\n\nAn dofir setze mir eis, am Géigesaz zur DP, gären derfir an, dass d’Mindestrent ëm op d’mannst 300 Euro an d’Luucht soll gesat ginn, fir bis op den Niveau vum Budget de référence ze kommen.
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And so, unlike the DP, we gladly argue that the minimum pension should be raised by at least 300 euro, to reach the level of the reference budget.
\n\n17 December 2025 — stating her party's view of poverty
\n\n\nA fir eis ass ganz kloer: D’Aarmut ass kee Schicksal, et ass eng Ongerechtegkeet.
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And for us it is very clear: poverty is not a fate, it is an injustice.
\n\n14 May 2025 — accusing the government of deliberately weakening the social dialogue
\n\n\nGanz am Contraire, d’Regierung huet de Sozialdialog geziilt – geziilt! – geschwächt, anstatt d’Aarbechtswelt aktiv ze gestalten.
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Quite the contrary, the government has deliberately, deliberately, weakened the social dialogue instead of actively shaping the world of work.
\n\n14 May 2025 — calling on the government to strengthen the social dialogue
\n\n\nDofir stäerkt de Sozialdialog, amplaz en ze ignoréieren!
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So strengthen the social dialogue instead of ignoring it!
\n\n14 May 2025 — arguing that the plan would let a workforce bargain with the employer without the unions
\n\n\nDat heescht am Endeffekt awer näischt aneres, wéi dass eng Beleegschaft ka mat dem Patron en Accord aushandelen ouni d’Gewerkschaften. Dir gitt awer d’Kollektivverträg verwässeren.
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In the end that means nothing other than that a workforce can negotiate an agreement with the employer without the unions. You are going to water down collective agreements.
\n\n12 June 2024 — agreeing that the procedures need simplification
\n\n\nNatierlech si mir och fir eng Vereinfachung vun de Prozeduren – wie kéint net derfir sinn?
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Of course we too are for a simplification of the procedures. Who could be against it?
\n\n19 March 2025 — criticising the government for not stating its intentions on the special scheme
\n\n\nVirun allem ass et nach ëmmer net kloer, wat da genau elo hei d’Ambitioune vun der Regierung sinn.
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Above all it is still not clear what exactly the government's ambitions here are.
\n\n20 December 2023 — addressing advice to the finance minister for the coming budget
\n\n\nMäi Rot, deen ech Iech nämlech wëll mat op de Wee ginn, Här Finanzminister, zesumme mat Ärer Regierung, ass: Verpasst d’Chancen net!
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My advice, which I want to give you, Mr Finance Minister, together with your government, is: do not miss the chances!
\n\n12 June 2024 — stating that the tax table adjustment costs 300 million euros every year
\n\n\nAn dat muss een och wëssen: Dat ass net eemoleg 300 Milliounen, mee dat sinn 300 Milliounen alljoers, déi an der Staatskeess wäerte feelen.
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And you must know this too: it is not 300 million once, it is 300 million every year that will be missing from the state coffers.
\n\n17 December 2025 — stating a figure on the revenue lost through the government's tax relief
\n\n\nDuerch divers Steierentlaaschtunge wäert dem Staat all Joer – all Joer! – ronn 1 Milliard feelen.
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Through various tax reliefs the state will be short of about 1 billion every year, every year!
\n\n9 June 2026 — arguing that new revenue must not be a taboo
\n\n\nDomadder mengen ech, dass et grad an dësen Zäite keen Tabu duerf sinn, ze kucken, wou mer nei Recettë fanne kënnen, wéi mer vläicht och nach weider Ongerechtegkeeten an eisem Steiersystem behiewe kënnen.
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So I think that in these times it must be no taboo to look at where we can find new revenue and how we can also fix further injustices in our tax system.
\n\n22 October 2024 — stating that domestic violence is a criminal offence and not a private matter
\n\n\nAn dobäi ass häuslech Gewalt keng Privatsaach, mee et ass eng Strofdot a soll eeben och deementspriechend net als privat consideréiert ginn.
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And yet domestic violence is not a private matter, it is a criminal offence and must accordingly not be treated as private.
\n\n13 November 2024 — proposing a binding code of ethics for everyone active in sport
\n\n\nDuerfir ass et wichteg, an dat ass och mäi Plädoyer, dass mer hei missten eng Aart Eethikkodex aféieren, verbindlech Reegelen, déi fir se alleguerte gëllen, Reegelen, déi och am beschte mam Secteur zesummen ausgeschafft ginn, wou een och eng Kéier hei ganz kloer Haltung weist.
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That is why it is important, and this is my plea, that we introduce a kind of code of ethics here, binding rules that apply to all of them, rules best worked out together with the sector, where a very clear stance is shown.
\n\n9 July 2025 — supporting the audit of the football federation asked for in the motion
\n\n\nMir denken, dass duerchaus en Audit méiglech ass. Dee Versuch soll een op alle Fall maachen.
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We think that an audit is perfectly possible. The attempt should be made in any case.
\n\n18 March 2026 — asking whether the affected players received psychological help and had a contact point
\n\n\nD’Fro stellt sech: Krute se psychologesch Hëllef? Hu se iwwerhaapt eng Ulafstell, wou se sech konnte mellen?
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The question arises: did they get psychological help? Do they even have a contact point where they could report?
\n\n27 June 2024 — stating what the study found about the role of gender
\n\n\nDës Etüd beleet, dass d’Geschlecht duerchaus eng Roll spillt, sief dat bei der Logementskris, bei der Consommatioun, bei der Inflatioun, awer och bei der perséinlecher Astellung zum Klimawandel.
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This study shows that gender does play a role, whether in the housing crisis, in consumption, in inflation, but also in personal attitudes to climate change.
\n\n8 July 2025 — rejecting neutrality on human rights, after the debate about the flag in Germany
\n\n\nWéi gesot, d’Mënscherechter sinn net neutral a si sinn och net verhandelbar!
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As I said, human rights are not neutral and they are not negotiable!
\n\n17 December 2025 — declaring full support for the bill
\n\n\nOp alle Fall, mir ënnerstëtzen dat heiten absolutt. Et ass zäitgeméiss. Et ass modern.
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In any case, we support this absolutely. It is of our time. It is modern.
\n\n16 June 2026 — stating what the constitutional guarantee signals
\n\n\nMat dëser verfassungsrechtlecher Garantie seet Lëtzebuerg ganz kloer: D’Gläichstellung an d’Selbstbestëmmungsrecht vun de Frae si keng verhandelbar Prinzippien!
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With this constitutional guarantee Luxembourg says very clearly: the equality and the right to self-determination of women are not negotiable principles!
\n\n24 June 2025 — regretting, as the author of the motion, that the education ministry collects no statistics on such cases
\n\n\nAllerdéngs bedaueren ech, dass den Educatiounsministère keng Statistiken erhieft, net weess, wivill där Fäll et gëtt.
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However, I regret that the education ministry collects no statistics and does not know how many such cases there are.
\n\n5 March 2026 — arguing that talking only about births avoids housing, working conditions and care work
\n\n\nEt ass immens praktesch, just iwwert d’Gebuerten ze schwätzen, well et ass manner bequeem, wann een iwwert d’Wunnpräisser schwätzt, iwwer Aarbechtskonditiounen, de Mental Load oder och eng gerecht Verdeelung vun der Care-Aarbecht doheem.
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It is very convenient to talk only about births, because it is less comfortable to talk about housing prices, about working conditions, the mental load, or a fair distribution of care work at home.
\n\nOne recorded quote each, so these are single entries rather than timelines.
\n\n\nMir ware bewosst Virreider bei der Transparenz a Steierfroen an dat huet eis och gutt gedoen, wat mer dee Moment gemaach hunn, well haut profitéiert virun allem d’Finanzplaz dovunner, dass se awer international propper dosteet.
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We were deliberately front-runners on transparency and tax matters, and what we did then did us good, because today it is above all the financial centre that benefits from standing clean internationally.
\n\n\nMir deelen de Constat, dass eng Erhéijung vun den Defenseausgaben noutwendeg ass.
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We share the finding that an increase in defence spending is necessary.
\n\n\nAn do ass awer och meng kleng Kritick um Exposé vun der Madamm Cahen gëschter, well an dësem Budget, Madamm Cahen, liese mer eebe justement net eraus, wou Der gëschter vun der grousser KI-Strategie geschwat hutt, well déi 6 % méi Budget fir den CTIE sinn net den Ausdrock vum Wëllen, fir esou eng Strategie mat Liewen ze fëllen.
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And there is my small criticism of Mrs Cahen's presentation yesterday, because in this budget, Mrs Cahen, we precisely do not read what you spoke of yesterday as the great AI strategy, because the 6 % more budget for the CTIE is not the expression of a will to fill such a strategy with life.
\n\n\nOuni Spezialkommissioun hätte mer kee Rapport mat Recommandatiounen a mir hätten och keng politesch Debatt haut dozou.
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Without the special commission we would have no report with recommendations and no political debate today either.
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