{"id":"dossiers/PL8114","title":"PL8114 — Personnes âgées","type":"dossier","html":"<p>Bill 8114 (\"Personnes âgées\"). The Chamber debated and voted it on 9 July 2025.</p>\n<p>Sittings: <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-07-09-n093\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-07-09-n093\">Sitting of 9 July 2025</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-07-09-n094\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-07-09-n094\">Sitting of 9 July 2025</a></p>\n<h2>Debate</h2>\n<h3>9 July 2025 — <a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fpoverty-and-social-benefits\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/poverty-and-social-benefits\">Poverty and social benefits</a></h3>\n<p>Bill 8114 creating the complément pour personnes âgées (ComPA), which lets the Fonds national de solidarité pay part of the price of places in care homes and approved supported housing for older people with low income; adopted unanimously by 60 votes, with the second constitutional vote waived, after which a Pirate motion on indexation of care-home prices was debated and its referral to committee rejected.</p>\n<p>Nathalie Morgenthaler (CSV), stating a figure for the poverty risk of people over 65 in Luxembourg:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Zu Lëtzebuerg sinn 11,3 % vun de Leit iwwer 65 Joer dem Aarmutsrisiko ausgesat.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>In Luxembourg 11.3% of people over 65 are exposed to the risk of poverty.</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>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fnathalie-morgenthaler\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/nathalie-morgenthaler\">Nathalie Morgenthaler</a>, CSV</p>\n<p>Claire Delcourt (LSAP), stating that her party is still waiting for the national action plan against poverty:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mir erwaarden an deem Kontext jo ëmmer nach gespaant den nationalen Aktiounsplang géint d’Aarmut, dee jo och am Wanter – spéitstens – komme sollt.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>In that context we are still eagerly awaiting the national action plan against poverty, which was supposed to come in winter at the latest.</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>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fclaire-delcourt\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/claire-delcourt\">Claire Delcourt</a>, LSAP</p>\n<p>Dan Hardy (ADR), welcoming the bill while regretting that it came late:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dofir begréisse mir als ADR dëse Gesetzesprojet, och wa mir eis gewënscht hätten, dass dës wichteg sozial Mesür schonn éischter op den Instanzewee geschéckt gi wär.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>That is why we as the ADR welcome this bill, even though we would have wished this important social measure had been sent through the procedure earlier.</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>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fdan-hardy\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/dan-hardy\">Dan Hardy</a>, ADR</p>\n<h2>Votes</h2>\n<h3>Main vote: PL 8114 - Personnes âgées</h3>\n<p>9 July 2025 — Premier vote constitutionnel.</p>\n<table><thead><tr><th>Party</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">For</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">Against</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">Abstain</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fcsv\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/csv\">CSV</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">21</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdp\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dp\">DP</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">14</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Flsap\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/lsap\">LSAP</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">12</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fadr\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/adr\">ADR</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">5</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdei-greng\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dei-greng\">déi gréng</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">4</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fpiraten\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/piraten\">Piraten</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">2</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdei-lenk\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dei-lenk\">déi Lénk</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">2</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Total</strong></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>60</strong></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>0</strong></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>0</strong></td></tr></tbody></table>\n<h3>Other votes on this bill</h3>\n<p>2 further votes, one row each. The party columns show how many deputies voted each way.</p>\n<table><thead><tr><th>Vote</th><th>Date</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">For</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">Against</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">Abstain</th><th>Parties against or abstaining</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>MO 1 - PL 8114 - Renvoi</td><td>9 July 2025</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">20</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">40</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td>CSV, DP, ADR against</td></tr><tr><td>MO 1 - PL8114</td><td>9 July 2025</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">4</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">40</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">16</td><td>CSV, DP, ADR against; LSAP, déi gréng abstained</td></tr></tbody></table>\n<p>No deputy voted against the majority of their party in any of these votes.</p>"}