Eric Thill served in the government and held the portfolio of Culture during the sittings recorded here.
\nSpoke on bills: PL8303, PL8410, PL8435, PL8523, PL8566.
\nSittings spoken in: 24.
\n29 April 2025 — defending what he told the committee the week before
\n\n\nEch stinn zu deem, wat ech Iech d’lescht Woch gesot hunn, an ech fannen et dann och gutt, dass Der dat eng Kéier hei public maacht.
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I stand by what I told you last week, and I also think it is good that you are making it public here.
\n\n29 April 2025 — saying he is not opposed to giving the Chamber the data he is able to give
\n\n\nEch verschléisse mech net, der Chamber déi Donnéeë mat op de Wee ze ginn, déi ech ka mat op de Wee ginn.
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I am not closing myself off to giving the Chamber the data that I am able to give.
\n\n30 April 2025 — rejecting the accusation made against him by stating he was always honest
\n\n\nEch war als Kulturminister zu all Moment éierlech.
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As Minister of Culture I was honest at every moment.
\n\n30 January 2024 — calling the Statec figures encouraging and giving the rise in the number of people with Luxembourgish as a main language between 2011 and 2021
\n\n\nAm Verglach zu 2011 kann een déi Statec-Zuelen duerchaus encourageant fannen. Hei geet déi absolutt Zuel vun 265.731 op 275.361 am Joer 2021 souguer ëm ronn 10.000 Leit erop.
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Compared with 2011, you can well find the Statec figures encouraging. Here the absolute number even rises by about 10,000 people, from 265,731 to 275,361 in 2021.
\n\n11 July 2024 — stating the census figure for Luxembourgish as a main language
\n\n\nAls Langue principale – an dat widderhuelen ech ganz gären nach eng Kéier –, also déi Sprooch, an där een denkt, ginn 2021 ronn 275.400 Leit d’Lëtzebuerger Sprooch un.
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As a main language, and I repeat this gladly once more, that is the language in which you think, about 275,400 people gave Luxembourgish in 2021.
\n\n11 July 2024 — dismissing the statistical dispute as no help to the language
\n\n\nStatistesch Hoerspléckerei eleng bréngt awer ganz kloer eis Sprooch net weider.
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Splitting hairs over statistics alone clearly does not take our language any further.
\n\n11 July 2024 — stating his own view that Luxembourgish is spoken more in every sector
\n\n\nAlso, d’Lëtzebuerger Sprooch gëtt fir mech an alle Sparte vun eisem Land méi geschwat.
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So, for me, the Luxembourgish language is spoken more in every sector of our country.
\n\n22 October 2024 — stating that multilingualism and Luxembourgish are not in competition
\n\n\nD’Méisproochegkeet ass a bleift ganz kloer eng Stäerkt vun eisem Lëtzebuerger Land. Et geet net drëms, dat eent géint dat anert auszespillen.
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Multilingualism is and remains very clearly a strength of our country of Luxembourg. It is not about playing one off against the other.
\n\n20 March 2025 — stating a figure on the share of consultation and reproduction requests approved in 2023 and 2024
\n\n\nAn de Joren 2023 an 2024 goufe ronn 90 % vun den Demandes de consultation an och den Demandes de reproduction positiv aviséiert.
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In the years 2023 and 2024, about 90% of the consultation requests and the reproduction requests received a positive decision.
\n\n2 April 2025 — answering the question on how many approved archaeological operators work in the country
\n\n\nDo si mer aktuell bei zwielef archeologeschen Operateuren, déi hei am Land aktiv sinn, fir archeologesch Fouillë kënnen ëmzesetzen.
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We currently have twelve archaeological operators active in the country who can carry out archaeological excavations.
\n\n30 April 2025 — stating his aim of moving Mudam forward and working through the issues raised
\n\n\nMir ass et vun Ufank un drëms gaangen an et geet mer elo an och an Zukunft als Kulturminister drëms, dass mer de Mudam virubréngen, dass mer déi Saachen, déi diskutéiert gi sinn, opschaffen.
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From the start it was about, and now and in the future as Minister of Culture it is about, moving Mudam forward and working through the things that were discussed.
\n\n8 July 2025 — stating the minister's aim for the film fund
\n\n\nDofir ass et entscheedend, datt mer de Filmfong och weiderhin op zolidd Féiss stellen.
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That is why it is decisive that we keep the film fund on solid feet.
\n\n18 November 2025 — stating the average yearly amount going into the film sector
\n\n\nDat sinn an der Moyenne 45 Milliounen Euro pro Joer, déi an de Filmsecteur kënnen investéiert ginn, an d’Produktiounen – Geld, wat um Terrain ukënnt.
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That is on average 45 million euros a year that can be invested in the film sector, in the productions, money that arrives on the ground.
\n\n2 December 2025 — explaining why the two chimneys no longer meet the criteria for national heritage protection
\n\n\nDes Weideren erfëllen dës zwee Kamäiner, déi net méi an hirem industrielle Kontext stinn a staark zréckgebaut goufen, net méi genuch eis Krittären, notamment de Krittär vun der Authentizitéit, fir an deem Sënn en nationalen Denkmalschutz kënnen ze justifiéieren.
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Furthermore, these two chimneys, which no longer stand in their industrial context and have been cut back heavily, no longer meet our criteria enough, in particular the criterion of authenticity, to justify national heritage protection.
\n\n2 December 2025 — stating that more buildings were placed under national protection in recent years than ever before
\n\n\nEch wëll drop hiweisen, dass an deene leschte Joren esou vill national geschützt gouf wéi nach ni.
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I want to point out that in recent years more has been placed under national protection than ever before.
\n\n21 January 2026 — the culture minister stating that the observatory informs policy rather than making it
\n\n\nSeng Roll ass et net, Politick ze maachen, mee ganz kloer eis Politick ze informéieren.
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Its role is not to make policy, but very clearly to inform our policy.
\n\n17 June 2026 — stating a real increase in library funding
\n\n\nEch ënnersträichen awer kloer, dass mer eng reell Hausse hu vun däitlech méi finanzielle Mëttelen, och wann een dat mat de Plazen am Ausland vergläicht, wou éischter bei de Bibliothéiken de roude Bic ugesat gëtt.
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I underline clearly that we have a real rise in financial means, also when you compare it with places abroad, where libraries are rather being cut.
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