Claude Meisch served in the government and held the portfolios of Logement et de l’Aménagement du territoire and of Éducation nationale, de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse during the sittings recorded here.
\nSpoke on bills: PL7642, PL8163, PL8295, PL8310, PL8313, PL8324, PL8327, PL8328, PL8353, PL8357, PL8358, PL8359, PL8375, PL8443, PL8532, PL8548, PL8587, PL8609, PL8613, PL8614, PL8656, PL8702, PL8709.
\nSittings spoken in: 35.
\n19 December 2023 — answering the debate as housing minister and naming the communes as the main partner for building more
\n\n\nWa mer insgesamt méi wëlle bauen, wa mer méi schnell och wëlle bauen, wa mer och méi abordabele Wunnraum wëlle schafen hei zu Lëtzebuerg, da gëtt et ee Partner Nummer 1: Dat sinn d’Gemengen, déi mer dofir brauchen.
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If we want to build more overall, and build faster, and create more affordable housing here in Luxembourg, then there is one partner number one: the communes, which we need for that.
\n\n12 March 2024 — stating the minister's view that the Chamber agrees on focusing on building gaps
\n\n\nEch denken och, datt jiddereen d’accord ass, datt mer eis ganz staark op déi Baulücken, déi mer hunn, sollte fokusséieren.
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I also think everyone agrees that we should focus very strongly on the building gaps that we have.
\n\n14 May 2024 — answering the charge that the package favours investors, by giving the ratio between tax measures and affordable-housing purchases
\n\n\nFir een Euro, deen hei ausgi gëtt, fir iwwer steierlech Mesüre kuerzfristeg, limitéiert an der Zäit op dëst Joer eeben de Marché ze stimuléieren, datt d’Leit finalement an der Baubranche an Aarbecht bleiwen, ginn dräi Euro reservéiert, fir Logement abordable gradesou kuerzfristeg elo um Marché kënnen anzekafen.
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For every euro spent here to stimulate the market in the short term through tax measures limited in time to this year, so that people in the construction sector stay in work, three euros are reserved to buy affordable housing on the market just as much in the short term.
\n\n25 June 2024 — saying the very low interest rates of the time may explain why the Klimabank has not been a success so far
\n\n\nDat kann eng Erklärung sinn, firwat datt d’Klimabank bis elo net hire Succès fonnt huet.
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That may be one explanation why the Klimabank has not found its success so far.
\n\n25 June 2024 — describing how the rented dwellings would be passed on through the Fonds du Logement at affordable-housing conditions
\n\n\nDa wëlle mer dat dem Fonds du Logement zur Verfügung stellen an dee gëtt et da weider zu deene ganz normale Konditioune vum Logement abordable u Persounen, u Familljen, déi eligibel sinn an déi dann och dee selwechte Loyer bezuelen, wéi wa se an iergendenger anerer Wunneng vum Fonds du Logement wären.
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Then we want to make that available to the Fonds du Logement, and it passes it on under the completely normal conditions of affordable housing to people, to families, who are eligible and who then pay the same rent as if they were in any other dwelling of the Fonds du Logement.
\n\n10 July 2024 — answering the call for a rent-cap bill within a reasonable deadline
\n\n\nMee et ass gefrot ginn, datt d’Regierung an engem räsonabelen Delai esou e Gesetzesprojet soll op de Wee bréngen. Jo, et ass genau dat, wat mer wëlle maachen.
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But we were asked that the government bring forward such a bill within a reasonable time. Yes, that is exactly what we want to do.
\n\n4 December 2024 — confirming that the state will keep its programme of buying up unsold private housing projects
\n\n\nA jo, de Staat an d’Regierung wäerten deen Opkafprogramm do oprechterhalen.
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And yes, the state and the government will maintain that purchase programme.
\n\n4 December 2024 — defending the lower housing budget figures as realistic
\n\n\nAn ech mengen, datt de Finanzminister, d’Regierung an och mäi Ministère hei richteg leien, fir e Budget ze presentéieren, dee realistesch ass, deen op Basis vu realisteschen Erwaardungen opgestallt gëtt: dat, wat och wierklech kann exekutéiert ginn opgrond vun Erfarungswäerter an de Joren 2025, 2026, 2027 an 2028.
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And I think the finance minister, the government and my ministry are right here to present a budget that is realistic, that is drawn up on the basis of realistic expectations: what can actually be executed on the basis of past experience in the years 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028.
\n\n19 November 2025 — setting out the balance the minister wants in the rent law
\n\n\nMir mussen e ganz fragillen Equiliber erreechen tëschent den Interessie vun deenen, jo, déi fragill sinn, an dat sinn d’Locatairen, déi net einfach de Proprietäre kënnen ausgeliwwert sinn, an op där anerer Säit awer och deenen, déi investéieren, déi Proprietär sinn, fir datt déi nach en Interêt hunn, an Zukunft ze investéieren.
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We have to reach a very fragile balance between the interests of those who are fragile, and those are the tenants, who cannot simply be at the mercy of the landlords, and on the other side those who invest, who are owners, so that they still have an interest in investing in future.
\n\n3 December 2025 — describing what the bill does
\n\n\nHei geet et eigentlech ëm e puer Quick Wins, déi mer ganz schnell kënne maachen, fir de System ze vereinfachen, de System méi verständlech ze maachen an awer och d’Reaktivitéit vun deem zoustännege Service och nach eng Kéier ze verbesseren.
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Here it is really about a few quick wins that we can do very fast, to simplify the system, to make the system more understandable and also to improve once more the reactivity of the service responsible.
\n\n3 March 2026 — answering the criticism that public land is given up, by drawing a line between the State and municipalities
\n\n\nMee de Staat verkeeft keng Terrainen, virun allem net u Particulieren, wa se fir Wunnraum klasséiert sinn.
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But the State does not sell land, above all not to private individuals, when it is zoned for housing.
\n\n3 March 2026 — reporting a figure for State land purchases in 2025
\n\n\n2025 waren dat 18,6 Hektar, déi fir déi doten Zwecker queesch uechtert d’Land kaf gi sinn.
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In 2025 that was 18.6 hectares bought for these purposes across the country.
\n\n17 March 2026 — defending individual housing aid as the fastest form of help
\n\n\nHei hëllefe mer ganz schnell bei den Aides individuelles au logement de Mënschen, déi eng Hëllef brauchen.
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Here, with individual housing aid, we help very quickly the people who need help.
\n\n29 April 2026 — stating that the government will keep investing in affordable and public housing
\n\n\nJo, mir wäerten natierlech weider investéieren an den erschwénglechen, abordabele Wunnengsbau, an ëffentlech Wunnengen, déi mer schafen.
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Yes, we will of course keep investing in affordable housing and in public housing that we create.
\n\n30 April 2026 — the minister stating where building work is currently happening
\n\n\nAwer et ass e Fait, wann enzwousch am Wunnengsbau momentan de Bagger leeft, dann ass et am ëffentleche Wunnengsbau, dann ass et am Logement abordable.
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But it is a fact that if the digger is running anywhere in housing construction at the moment, it is in public housing, it is in affordable housing.
\n\n17 June 2026 — describing the housing market as politically determined
\n\n\nMir hunn och, mengen ech, mam Logementsmarché e Marché, dee jo net fräi ass, well ganz vill politesch Decisiounen, administrativ Decisiounen decidéiere jo, wéini, wou an a wat fir enger Quantitéit gebaut gëtt.
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With the housing market we have a market that is not free, because a great many political and administrative decisions determine when, where and in what quantity building happens.
\n\n10 July 2024 — offering a last compromise wording and saying the Chamber should get the document
\n\n\nDann dann nach e leschte Versuch, fir hei d’Enner beieneenzekréien, well ech, nach eng Kéier, mengen, datt Dir dat Dokument sollt kréien.
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Then one last attempt to bring the ends together here, because I think, once again, that you should get that document.
\n\n1 February 2024 — answering the debate by naming early support and good early-childhood provision as one of two promising routes
\n\n\nDat eent, dat ass, méi fréi unzefänken, d’Kanner fréi ze ënnerstëtzen an hirer Entwécklung an dowéinster eeben och gutt Bildungsleeschtungen an der fréier Kandheet, also gutt Crèchen, ze assuréieren.
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The one is to start earlier, to support children early in their development and therefore to assure good educational provision in early childhood, that is good creches.
\n\n28 February 2024 — stating that the delay before support actually arrives remains unsatisfactory
\n\n\nJo, ee Punkt, wou mer onzefridde waren an och nach ëmmer sinn, dat ass den Delai, bis eng Hëllef dann och wierklech kënnt.
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Yes, one point where we were and still are dissatisfied is the delay until help actually arrives.
\n\n12 March 2024 — answering that the bill also opens the director post to the public sector
\n\n\nMat dësem Text maache mer d’Ouverture och fir eng Persoun, déi aus dem ëffentleche Secteur kënnt.
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With this text we also open the way for a person who comes from the public sector.
\n\n25 June 2024 — replying that voting this bill is no contradiction with the plan to rethink the section system
\n\n\nEch wëll och betounen, datt et, mengen ech, kee Widdersproch ass, fir dat heite Gesetz elo ze stëmmen.
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I also want to stress that, in my view, it is no contradiction to vote this law now.
\n\n10 July 2024 — defending the bill by naming the new right to at least five days of leave during school time
\n\n\nMir hunn e Recht fir déi Agenten, déi dat Recht virdrun net haten, vun op d’mannst fënnef Deeg Congé wärend der Schoulzäit agefouert.
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For the agents who did not have that right before, we have introduced a right to at least five days of leave during school time.
\n\n4 December 2024 — arguing that adding resources without a pedagogical concept produces no result
\n\n\nEinfach weider de Krunn opzedréinen a Ressourcen eranzeschëdden, fir Ressourcen eranzeschëdden, an ech mengen, dat soen och sämtlech Bildungsetüden, mécht, datt déi verpuffen an datt dat deier gëtt, mee datt et awer kee Resultat wäert bréngen.
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Simply turning the tap further open and pouring in resources for the sake of pouring in resources, and I think every education study says this, means they evaporate and it becomes expensive, but it will bring no result.
\n\n22 January 2025 — answering the demand for evaluation by naming the school quality observatory
\n\n\nMir hu bewosst en Observatoire de la qualité scolaire geschafen, fir eis iwwert d’Schëller ze kucken a reegelméisseg seng Rapporten ze maachen, déi hei an op anere Plaze sollen diskutéiert ginn.
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We deliberately created an Observatoire de la qualité scolaire to look over our shoulder and produce its reports regularly, which are to be discussed here and elsewhere.
\n\n11 February 2025 — rejecting school rankings as meaningless
\n\n\nWell dat heiten ass en exzellent Beispill, Dir Dammen an Dir Hären, fir nach eng Kéier ze ënnermaueren, datt e Schoulranking wierklech kee Sënn mécht.
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Because this here is an excellent example, ladies and gentlemen, to underline once again that a school ranking really makes no sense.
\n\n11 February 2025 — stating the pass figure for the European baccalaureate in Differdange and Esch
\n\n\nJo, an 88 vun deenen 90 hunn d’lescht Joer hire Bac européen do reusséiert.
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Yes, and 88 of those 90 passed their European baccalaureate there last year.
\n\n13 February 2025 — stating the first of the ministry's two conditions for approving a communal school timetable, that the weekly number of school hours must not fall further
\n\n\nDat eent, dat ass, datt mer net weider mat der Schoulstonnenzuel an der Woch sollen erofgoen.
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The first is that we should not reduce the number of school hours per week any further.
\n\n13 February 2025 — saying the ministry will try to organise three sport hours in the sixième and cinquième as well, as the septième already has
\n\n\nMir wäerten awer kucken, datt mer et organiséiert kréien, datt mer nieft der Septième, déi haut schonn dräi Sportstonnen am Horaire huet, dat och systematesch op der Sixième an op der Cinquième kënnen assuréieren.
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We will however see that we manage to organise it so that, besides the septième, which already has three sport hours in its timetable, we can also guarantee this systematically in the sixième and the cinquième.
\n\n1 April 2025 — the education minister stating that financial education cannot be limited to school education
\n\n\nDuerfir kann d’Finanzbildung sech net op d’Schoulbildung konzentréieren a limitéieren.
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That is why financial education cannot concentrate on, and limit itself to, school education.
\n\n10 June 2025 — stating when and with which year group the roll-out starts
\n\n\nEch wëll nach eng Kéier soen: Bei der Rentrée 2026 starte mer mat engem Joergang, an dat ass deen, deen dann am Cycle 1.2 ass.
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I want to say once more: at the 2026 start of the school year we begin with one year group, and that is the one that is then in cycle 1.2.
\n\n24 June 2025 — justifying, as minister, why the master craftsman training is made free
\n\n\nWell et schéngt mir och logesch ze sinn, datt mer eebe soen: All aneren Diplom bitt de Lëtzebuerger Staat gratis un, d’DAP-Ausbildung, d’Première an nach villes méi.
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Because it also seems logical to me that we say: the Luxembourg State offers every other qualification free of charge, the DAP training, the Première and much more.
\n\n19 November 2025 — stating that he has no final answer yet on changing the language switch in classical secondary education
\n\n\nAn ech muss Iech éierlech soen: Ech hunn haut à ce stade do net onbedéngt eng ofschléissend Äntwert dorobber, ob een dat, wat awer eise Schoulsystem och am Enseignement secondaire classique iwwer laang Zäit ausgemaach huet, einfach elo emol géif a Fro stellen, iwwer Bord goe loossen.
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And I must tell you honestly: at this stage I do not necessarily have a final answer on whether one would simply call into question, and throw overboard, what has long characterised our school system in classical secondary education.
\n\n19 November 2025 — offering to design and start a pilot project
\n\n\nWat ech mer ka virstellen, dat ass, datt mer elo schonn e Pilotprojet concipéieren an och ufänken an datt een dann duerno, wa mer déi Diskussiounen do eng Kéier féieren, op d’mannst wann ee Konklusioune kann draus zéien, och Resultater aus deem Pilotprojet do hätt.
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What I can imagine is that we already design and start a pilot project now, so that afterwards, when we hold those discussions, at least when conclusions can be drawn, results from that pilot project are also available.
\n\n3 December 2025 — arguing that the generalisation of the pilot cannot wait
\n\n\nAn duerfir sinn ech der Meenung, datt mer net nach kënne waarden, bis mer „ALPHA – zesumme wuessen“ generaliséieren, fir deene Kanner do eng Chance ze ginn, elo endlech eng Chance ze ginn.
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And therefore I am of the opinion that we cannot wait any longer to generalise ALPHA - growing together, to give those children a chance, to give them a chance now at last.
\n\n21 January 2026 — the education minister stating the extra 13 million euros a year the state adds for the communes
\n\n\nAn et ass jo dat, wat mer elo hei korrigéiere mat engem däitleche Plus nach eng Kéier vun 13 Milliounen Euro pro Joer, déi mer aus der Staatskeess zousätzlech bäileeën, fir d’Rechnung fir d’Gemengen do méi erträglech ze maachen.
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And that is what we are correcting here with a clear extra 13 million euros a year that we add from the state purse, to make the bill more bearable for the communes.
\n\n10 February 2026 — the minister saying he has instructed his services to act on the case
\n\n\nEch hu meng Servicer awer chargéiert, sech der Saach unzehuelen an ze kucke mat där concernéierter Gemeng, fir deene Prestatairen dat doten nach eng Kéier ze erklären, fir datt et kloer ass: De PAI ass bindend fir Schoul a Maison relais, am Interêt vum Kand!
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I have instructed my services to take up the matter and to look at it with the commune concerned, to explain this once more to the providers, so that it is clear: the PAI is binding for the school and the maison relais, in the interest of the child!
\n\n10 February 2026 — the minister giving an example of the conflicting room standards
\n\n\nE ganz prominent Beispill ass, datt an engem Sall, wou d’Maison relais ka stattfannen, d’Raumhéicht op d’mannst zwee an en hallwe Meeter muss hunn, awer an engem Sall, wou Schoul muss kënne stattfannen, d’Raumhéicht op d’mannst dräi Meeter muss hunn.
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A very prominent example is that in a room where the maison relais can take place the ceiling height must be at least two and a half metres, but in a room where school must be possible the ceiling height must be at least three metres.
\n\n12 February 2026 — reporting the message the ministry received in recent days on school sanitary facilities
\n\n\nMir hunn och elo nogelauschtert an deene leschten Deeg. A mir hunn de Message kritt, datt et weiderhi soll Meedercher-Sanitärbléck ginn, Jonge-Sanitärbléck ginn, mee datt et och en neutralen Espace soll ginn.
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We have also listened in recent days. And we received the message that there should still be girls' sanitary blocks and boys' sanitary blocks, but that there should also be a neutral space.
\n\n17 March 2026 — answering whether school violence is a set of isolated cases or a widespread phenomenon
\n\n\nEch tendéieren éischter zum flächendeckende Phenomeen, wann ech mat villen Acteuren aus der Schoul, aus der nonformaler Bildung, mat Elteren diskutéieren an hinnen an deene leschte Méint nogelauschtert hunn.
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I tend rather towards a widespread phenomenon, after discussing with many actors from schools and non-formal education and with parents, and listening to them in recent months.
\n\n29 April 2026 — citing the pupil-to-teacher ratio in Luxembourg
\n\n\nDat heescht, wa mer kucken, wéi vill Ressourcë mer hunn: Op 1 Enseignant kommen da bei eis 9 Kanner.
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That means, if we look at how many resources we have: here we have 9 children per teacher.
\n\n17 June 2026 — stating a figure on planned school places
\n\n\n38 % vun deene geplangte Plaze wäerten also fir eng international Schoul sinn.
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So 38 % of the planned places will be for an international school.
\n\n11 February 2025 — welcoming the two motions tabled by Closener
\n\n\nEch muss soen, datt déi zwou Motioune vun der Madamm Closener mir op jidde Fall ganz sympathesch sinn.
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I must say that the two motions of Mrs Closener are in any case very much to my liking.
\n\n13 February 2025 — stating that studies link physical activity to better learning
\n\n\nAn dat weise jo och ganz vill Etüden: datt e Schüler, dee sech beweegt, eigentlech och de Kapp méi fräi huet, fir kënnen ze léieren, an datt déi motoresch Entwécklung an déi kognitiv Entwécklung eigentlech Hand an Hand ginn.
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And very many studies show this: that a pupil who moves also has a clearer head for learning, and that motor development and cognitive development actually go hand in hand.
\n\n28 February 2024 — citing the PISA study against the claim that tablets lower school results
\n\n\nD’PISA-Etüd seet selwer, datt déi Länner, déi Schoulsystemer, wou méi Tablets pro Schüler an der Schoul wären, an der Moyenne och besser Performancë géife bréngen.
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The PISA study itself says that those countries and school systems with more tablets per pupil in school on average also produce better performance.
\n\n28 February 2024 — rejecting a general mobile phone ban in schools
\n\n\nAn do denken ech, datt et net zilfürend ass, generell en Handyverbuet an der Schoul anzeféieren.
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And there I think that introducing a general mobile phone ban in school does not lead to the goal.
\n\n15 October 2025 — agreeing with the questioner that a B1 language level should not be required for everything
\n\n\nEch deelen d’Approche hei vun der Madamm Cahen, fir ze soen: Brauche mer fir alles e B1?
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I share Mrs Cahen's approach in asking: do we need a B1 level for everything?
\n\n19 November 2025 — stating the government's own position on naturalisation of young non-Luxembourgers
\n\n\nDat ass jo eppes, wat d’Regierung sécherlech wëll ënnerstëtzen: d’Naturaliséierung vu jonken Netlëtzebuergerinnen a -lëtzebuerger bei eis am Land.
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That is certainly something the government wants to support: the naturalisation of young non-Luxembourgers in our country.
\n\n19 November 2025 — committing to adapt the Luxembourgish curriculum so a set language level can be guaranteed
\n\n\nMir musse schonn dee jëtzege Curriculum am Lëtzebuergeschen, souwuel deen an den ëffentlechen Europaschoule wéi och deen, deen da géif iwwerholl ginn am Baccalauréat international respektiv an den A-Levels, adaptéieren, fir datt mer och mat rouegem Gewësse kënne garantéieren, datt een e B1 am Héierverstoen an en A2 am Schwätzen huet.
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We do have to adapt the current Luxembourgish curriculum, both the one in the public European schools and the one that would be taken over in the international baccalaureate or the A-levels, so that we can guarantee with a clear conscience that someone has a B1 in listening and an A2 in speaking.
\n\n3 March 2026 — answering the criticism that his ministry does not know staff language levels
\n\n\nMir kucke bei all Crèche, ob een den C1 huet, well dat ass nämlech dat, wat d’Gesetz virschreift.
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For every crèche we check whether someone has C1, because that is what the law prescribes.
\n\n30 April 2026 — stating that conventioned crèches have Luxembourgish-speaking educational staff
\n\n\nMir stelle fest, datt mer an de konventionéierte Crèchë lëtzebuergeschsproochegt edukatiivt Personal hunn.
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We observe that in the conventioned crèches we have Luxembourgish-speaking educational staff.
\n\n17 June 2026 — stating a fact about home languages in the population
\n\n\nA mir wëssen, datt e groussen Deel vun eiser Populatioun doheem net Däitsch oder Lëtzebuergesch schwätzt.
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And we know that a large part of our population does not speak German or Luxembourgish at home.
\n\n18 March 2025 — stating how many inspections of childcare structures were carried out in 2021 and in 2024
\n\n\nDat huet derzou gefouert, datt zum Beispill d’Zuel vun deene Kontrollen, déi 2021 nach bei 54 war, 2024 bei 714 war.
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That led, for example, to the number of inspections, which was still 54 in 2021, being 714 in 2024.
\n\n18 March 2025 — announcing that the government intends to improve the staff-to-child ratio
\n\n\nDës Regierung wëllt un de Personalschlëssel goen, e verbesseren virun allem.
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This government wants to tackle the staff ratio, above all to improve it.
\n\n24 June 2025 — arguing that cyberbullying is a criminal matter and not one for the school system to record
\n\n\nCybermobbing ass e penale Fait, dat geet eis eigentlech als Schoulbetrib näischt méi un.
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Cyberbullying is a criminal offence, and as a school system it is actually no longer our business.
\n\n15 October 2025 — stating the growth in childcare places since the chèque-service was created
\n\n\nZanter der Schafung vum Chèque-service ass d’Zuel vun de Plazen ëm 140 % an d’Luucht gaangen, also an de leschte 15 Joer.
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Since the chèque-service was created, the number of places has risen by 140 %, that is over the last 15 years.
\n\n15 October 2025 — stating how many maison relais places are currently in the pipeline
\n\n\nEt si momentan bal 10.000 Plazen an de Maison-relaisen um Entstoen.
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There are currently almost 10,000 places in maisons relais coming into being.
\n\n15 October 2025 — defending the role of municipalities in planning childcare places
\n\n\nEch sinn der Meenung, datt mer d’Gemenge brauchen, well d’Gemeng muss eigentlech wëssen, wat de Besoin an hirer Populatioun ass.
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I am of the opinion that we need the municipalities, because the municipality has to know what the need of its population is.
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