Martine Deprez served in the government and held the portfolio of Santé et de la Sécurité sociale during the sittings recorded here.
\nSpoke on bills: PL8259, PL8277, PL8333, PL8394, PL8399, PL8490, PL8514, PL8575, PL8606, PL8634.
\nSittings spoken in: 48.
\n19 March 2025 — answering a question on whether the consultation will actually lead to legislation
\n\n\nMee wéi ech zum Schluss gesot hunn: Näischt maachen ass keng Optioun! A wann dat mat sech bréngt, e Projet de loi ze deposéieren, da maache mir dat.
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But as I said at the end: doing nothing is not an option! And if that means tabling a bill, then we will do that.
\n\n19 March 2024 — the health minister welcoming every rise in the tobacco price
\n\n\nA punkto Gesondheet, a méi prezis a punkto ëffentlech Gesondheet, begréisse mer all Erhéijung vum Tubakspräis.
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In terms of health, and more precisely in terms of public health, we welcome every increase in the tobacco price.
\n\n19 December 2023 — answering the debate in her first bill as health minister
\n\n\nAn ech si frou, datt ech bei menger éischter Interventioun zu engem Projet de loi kann op 100 % Zoustëmmung hei aus dem Haus zielen.
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And I am glad that in my first speech on a bill I can count on 100 percent approval from this House.
\n\n16 January 2024 — stating the cost of the site and how it is financed
\n\n\nFir d’Käschte vum Site sinn 38,3 Milliounen Euro ugesat, wouvunner 80 % iwwert de Fonds hospitalier bezuelt ginn, an déi 20 %, déi bleiwen, iwwert d’CNS.
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The costs of the site are set at 38.3 million euros, of which 80% is paid through the hospital fund and the remaining 20% through the CNS.
\n\n16 January 2024 — answering that a feasibility analysis has to come first
\n\n\nDat heescht, et muss eng Analys gemaach ginn a mir maachen näischt aneschters, wéi de Regierungsprogramm auszeféieren.
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That means an analysis has to be made, and we are doing nothing other than carrying out the government programme.
\n\n14 March 2024 — the minister stating that the ministry issued no ban and that the centre agreed its activity does not comply with the current law
\n\n\nMir hunn HYGIE elo net verbueden, iergendeppes ze maachen, mee mir si mat HYGIE eens, datt esou, wéi d’Gesetz de Moment gestréckt ass, dat, wat si maachen, net konform ass zum Gesetz.
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We did not forbid HYGIE to do anything, but we agree with HYGIE that, the way the law is written at present, what they do is not compliant with the law.
\n\n19 March 2024 — stating a figure on adult overweight alongside the figure for children
\n\n\nWa mer héieren hunn, datt ee Kand vu fënnef de Moment iwwergewiichteg ass, hu mer awer seelen héieren de Mëtten, datt och een Erwuessene vun dräi an déi Kategorie fält.
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While we have heard that one child in five is currently overweight, we have rarely heard this afternoon that one adult in three also falls into that category.
\n\n2 May 2024 — stating the state of the WHO negotiations
\n\n\nEt ass nach keen eenzegen Artikel validéiert, dat heescht, all déi Artikele stinn nach zur Diskussioun.
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Not a single article is validated yet, which means all those articles are still up for discussion.
\n\n27 June 2024 — setting out why a law that regulates all of public health is needed outside a pandemic situation
\n\n\nAn duerfir brauche mer Virstufen, mir brauchen eng Veille sanitaire, mir brauchen eng Veille vu Centres épidemiologiques, mir brauchen eng Veille vu Foyeren, an duerfir musse mer ausserhalb vun der Situation de pandémie e Gesetz maachen, wat d’ganz Santé publique reglementéiert.
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And so we need earlier stages, we need health surveillance, we need surveillance of epidemiological centres, we need surveillance of outbreaks, and so, outside a pandemic situation, we must make a law that regulates all of public health.
\n\n2 July 2024 — stating the waiting time for a first autism appointment at the CHL
\n\n\nDe CHL huet e Pôle autisme en place, wou de Moment den Delai, fir en éischte Rendez-vous ze kréien, dat heescht, eng éischt Anamnees ze maachen, sechs bis aacht Méint ass.
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The CHL has an autism unit in place where the wait for a first appointment, that is a first case history, is currently six to eight months.
\n\n2 July 2024 — stating the average time available per child in school medicine
\n\n\nMir hunn awer pro Kand an der Moyenne just zéng Minutten zur Verfügung.
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But we have on average only ten minutes available per child.
\n\n22 October 2024 — setting out how she places mental health within prevention policy
\n\n\nDat heescht, fir mech ass d’Santé mentale e Stéck vun der Gesamtsanté an duerfir net lasszedenke vun der Preventioun, der Promotioun an eiser Gesondheet.
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That means that for me mental health is a part of overall health and therefore inseparable from prevention, from promotion and from our health.
\n\n13 November 2024 — answering on what menopause treatment is available in Luxembourg
\n\n\nDéi eenzeg wierklech Behandlung hei am Land, déi en place ass, ass d’Hormonbehandlung, an déi muss ee bei engem Expert maachen, wa méiglech bei sengem Gynekolog.
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The only real treatment in place here in the country is hormone therapy, and that has to be done with an expert, if possible with your gynaecologist.
\n\n21 November 2024 — announcing a women's health week and an awareness campaign on endometriosis
\n\n\nMir wäerten eng Semaine de la santé au féminin en place setzen. Mir wäerten d’Sujete méi oft uschwätzen. Mir wäerten eng verstäerkt Campagne de sensibilisation maachen, notamment fir d’Endometrios.
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We will set up a women's health week. We will raise these subjects more often. We will run a stronger awareness campaign, in particular on endometriosis.
\n\n5 December 2024 — stating that the underfinancing of the centre was already observed from 2018 on
\n\n\nMir stelle fest: Effektiv, et gëtt eng Ënnerfinanzéierung. Déi ass awer net eréischt dëst Joer festgestallt ginn. Déi huet schonn 2018 ugefaangen, festgestallt ze ginn.
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We note: yes, there is an underfinancing. But it was not first observed this year. It began to be observed back in 2018.
\n\n23 January 2025 — announcing a taskforce agreed with the sector federations
\n\n\nAll dës Iwwerleeungen a Feststellungen hunn dozou gefouert, datt mer wierklech zesumme mat der COPAS an der FHL an enger Sitzung vum 8. Januar festgehalen hunn, datt mir deemnächst eng Taskforce asetzen, eng Taskforce, wou all d’Partie-prenanteën dra sinn.
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All these considerations and findings led us, together with COPAS and the FHL in a meeting on 8 January, to agree that we will shortly set up a taskforce, a taskforce in which all the stakeholders take part.
\n\n1 April 2025 — the health minister stating that the law on psychotherapists must also be reworked
\n\n\nDat heescht, et ass och noutwendeg, d’Psychotherapeutegesetz op de Leescht ze huelen.
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That means it is also necessary to take the law on psychotherapists in hand.
\n\n15 May 2025 — answering the question about when the commission will be appointed
\n\n\nE genauen Timing kann ech leider net ginn, well dat hänkt vun de Partner of, déi hir Membere fir déi Kommissioun eraschécken.
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Unfortunately I cannot give an exact timing, because that depends on the partners who send in their members for the commission.
\n\n24 June 2025 — answering that her services see no massive rise in use among young people
\n\n\nEch hunn am Kader vun där Question parlementaire schonn drop higewisen – a meng Servicer hu mer et haut nach eng Kéier bestätegt –, datt mir am Kontakt mat deene Jonken elo net feststellen, datt dat massiv an d’Luucht gaange wär.
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I already pointed out in connection with that parliamentary question, and my services confirmed it to me again today, that in our contact with young people we do not currently see that this has risen massively.
\n\n8 July 2025 — welcoming the expected consensus vote on the bill
\n\n\nAn ech si frou, datt mer deen Text hei warscheinlech am Konsens kënne stëmmen.
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And I am glad that we can probably vote this text through by consensus.
\n\n15 October 2025 — reporting what the CNS board did after the November decision
\n\n\nDoropshin ass dann de Verwaltungsrot aktiv ginn, fir weider nei Mesüren ze iwwerleeën, ausrechnen ze loossen an op de Leescht ze huelen.
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After that the board became active, to consider further new measures, have them costed and take them in hand.
\n\n15 October 2025 — committing the government to a legal framework if the science supports access
\n\n\nFalls do elo déi wëssenschaftlech Erkenntnisser weisen, datt e konditionéierten Zougang zu dëse Substanzen néideg wier, verschléisse mir eis net dësen Erkenntnisser a wäerten hëllefen, deen néidege legale Kader en place ze setzen, fir datt dat encadréiert gëtt.
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If scientific findings now show that conditioned access to these substances is needed, we will not close ourselves to those findings and will help put the necessary legal framework in place, so that it is properly framed.
\n\n30 October 2025 — stating that primary prevention through awareness work is possible for tobacco
\n\n\nAn anescht wéi bei der Spillsucht kënne mer hei och d’primär Preventioun maachen, andeems mer sensibiliséieren a vill sensibiliséieren.
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And unlike with gambling addiction, here we can also do primary prevention, by raising awareness and raising a lot of awareness.
\n\n18 November 2025 — explaining why the government does not set up a national crisis centre now
\n\n\nWéinst der Penurie vu Personal an deem Secteur denke mer, datt et de Moment net opportun wär, esou ee Krisenzenter en place ze setzen.
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Because of the staff shortage in that sector, we think it would not be appropriate at the moment to set up such a crisis centre.
\n\n20 November 2025 — the minister stating the aim of the planned extension of care outside hospitals
\n\n\nEt geet och guer net drëms, de Spideeler eppes ewechzehuelen, mee et geet eis drëms, dem Patient an der Prise en charge manner komplizéiert Weeër opzezeechnen an haaptsächlech d’Waardezäiten ze reduzéieren.
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It is not at all about taking something away from the hospitals. What we want is to show the patient simpler routes through care and, above all, to reduce waiting times.
\n\n3 December 2025 — restating the principle the government stands by
\n\n\nVirun zwou Wochen hunn ech hei gesot, datt eise Gesondheetssystem drop baséiert, datt all Bierger e gläichberechtegten Zougang zu enger héichwäerteger medezinnescher Versuergung kritt an huet a behält.
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Two weeks ago I said here that our health system is based on every citizen getting, having and keeping equal access to high-quality medical care.
\n\n18 December 2025 — explaining how the reserve beds replace the idea of a military hospital
\n\n\nAn duerfir hu mer mat der Defense zesummen déi heite Mesür en place gesat, datt an all grousse Centre hospitalier 50 Better bäikommen.
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And that is why, together with Defence, we put this measure in place, so that 50 beds are added in every large hospital centre.
\n\n22 January 2026 — arguing that the individual case does not prove a general quality problem
\n\n\nDeen eenzelne Fall beweist awer net, datt mer e Qualitéitsproblem hunn.
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The individual case does not prove that we have a quality problem.
\n\n12 February 2026 — stating that no national programme exists to measure patient safety
\n\n\nMomentan gëtt et bis dato keen nationale Programm a Krittären, fir d’Patientesécherheet ze moossen.
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At present there is still no national programme and no criteria for measuring patient safety.
\n\n12 February 2026 — announcing that the legal framework must be adapted for nationwide quality control
\n\n\nHei wäerte mer mussen de legale Kader upassen, fir datt mer d’Qualitéit landeswäit d’selwecht kënnen evaluéieren a kontrolléieren.
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Here we will have to adapt the legal framework so that we can evaluate and control quality in the same way nationwide.
\n\n5 March 2026 — naming a gap in the 2006 law about who is to carry out the controls
\n\n\nAlso war et eng Lacune am Gesetz vun 2006, datt net spezifizéiert ginn ass, wie wéini wou reegelméisseg Kontrolle soll maachen.
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So it was a gap in the 2006 law that it was not specified who should carry out regular controls, when and where.
\n\n5 March 2026 — stating that the 2025 law gave the customs administration the task of controlling the tobacco rules
\n\n\nDéi Lacune ass 2025 mat deem neien Antitubaksgesetz mat de Modifikatioune gefëllt ginn. An effektiv ass do elo d’Douane beoptraagt ginn, konkreet déi Dispositioune vum Tubaksgesetz ze kontrolléieren.
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That gap was filled in 2025 with the new anti-tobacco law and its amendments. And the customs administration has now indeed been given the task of controlling the provisions of the tobacco law.
\n\n30 April 2026 — the minister announcing that she will go to the nomenclature commission with an end-of-life consultation
\n\n\nÉischtens, mir wäerten an d’Commission de nomenclature goe mat enger Consultation fin de vie.
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First, we will go to the nomenclature commission with an end-of-life consultation.
\n\n27 June 2024 — asking the Chamber not to loosen the fund's investment criteria
\n\n\nEch géif Iech bieden, d’Krittären net manner streng ze maachen.
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I would ask you not to make the criteria less strict.
\n\n19 March 2025 — stating the deficit figures the pension fund board sent her
\n\n\nSi estiméieren deen Defizitt fir 2026 op ronn 100 Milliounen a fir 2027 gi si vun engem Lach vu bal 300 Milliounen aus.
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They estimate that deficit for 2026 at around 100 million, and for 2027 they expect a hole of almost 300 million.
\n\n19 March 2025 — answering the debate on behalf of the government and fixing its position on the retirement age
\n\n\nMir kënne confirméieren, datt mir als Regierung net wëllen de Pensiounsalter vu 65 Joer an d’Luucht setzen.
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We can confirm that we as a government do not want to raise the retirement age of 65.
\n\n24 June 2025 — answering that the consultation process continues and rejecting the charge of a top-down decision
\n\n\nWell mat deem Consultatiounsprozess ass dat Ganzt net ofgeschloss. Et gëtt näischt vun uewen erof decidéiert.
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Because the whole thing is not finished with that consultation process. Nothing is being decided from the top down.
\n\n18 December 2025 — reporting participation figures for the \"Schwätz mat!\" consultation she ran
\n\n\n86 Deeg konnten d’Bierger matmaachen, méi wéi 9.000 Leit hunn de Site besicht, méi wéi 42.000-mol sinn d’Säiten opgeruff ginn, an der Moyenne sinn d’Leit 3,5 Minutten um Site bliwwen, méi wéi 6.500 Interaktiounen a Form vun engem Bäitrag, a Form vun enger Äntwert op eng Fro, déi gestallt ginn ass.
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For 86 days citizens could take part, more than 9,000 people visited the site, pages were opened more than 42,000 times, on average people stayed 3.5 minutes on the site, and there were more than 6,500 interactions in the form of a contribution or an answer to a question asked.
\n\n16 May 2024 — the minister answering that the government has not yet taken a position on the conflicting opinions
\n\n\nWell déi eeben net concordant waren a well eng Urgence am Dossier war, hu mer eis dozou nach keng Meenung gebilt a wiere frou, wann deen Dossier elo mol haut esou géif gestëmmt ginn.
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Because they were not concordant and because the file was urgent, we have not yet formed an opinion on it, and we would be glad if the file were voted today as it stands.
\n\n30 October 2025 — citing the rise in counselling hours at the centre for excessive behaviour and behavioural addiction
\n\n\nSi hu festgestallt, datt hir Zuele vun de Consultatiounsstonne sech bal verdräifacht hu vun 2020 bis 2024.
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They found that their figures for consultation hours almost tripled from 2020 to 2024.
\n\n19 March 2025 — listing the points of agreement she heard across the parties
\n\n\nA keen denkt, datt de Risiko vun Altersaarmut net existéiert an datt een näischt dogéint maache muss.
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And nobody thinks that the risk of old-age poverty does not exist and that nothing must be done about it.
\n\n21 May 2026 — framing the government's objection as being about the statutory leave, not about blood donation
\n\n\nD’Fro ass net, ob mir d’Bluttspenden ënnerstëtzen. Dat maache mer souwisou. D’Fro ass, ob mer e gesetzlech festgeluechte Congé extraordinaire vu véier Stonnen hei en place setzen.
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The question is not whether we support blood donation. We do that anyway. The question is whether we put in place a legally fixed extraordinary leave of four hours.
\n\n30 October 2025 — explaining that an activity run privately by the hospital federation moves into a public establishment
\n\n\nDat heescht, eng Aktivitéit, déi vun der Fédération des hôpitaux privat geréiert gouf, gëtt elo an en Établissement public iwwerfouert.
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That means an activity that was managed privately by the hospital federation is now transferred into a public establishment.
\n\n14 October 2025 — naming the government's first line of action against medicine residues
\n\n\nDat heescht, déi éischt Pist ass, Medikamenter just dann ze verschreiwen, wa se wierklech noutwendeg sinn.
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That means the first line of action is to prescribe medicines only when they are really necessary.
\n\n3 March 2026 — answering that a gap exists in evening care for young people in psychiatric treatment
\n\n\nMir hunn de Moment keng Strukturen, wou Jugendlecher a Kanner kënnen encadréiert owes begleet ginn, och edukativ begleet ginn, bis da moies d’psychiatresch Behandlung erëm ugeet.
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At the moment we have no structures where young people and children can be supervised in the evening, including educationally, until psychiatric treatment starts again in the morning.
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