Serge Wilmes served in the government and held the portfolios of Environnement, du Climat et de la Biodiversité and of Fonction publique during the sittings recorded here.
\nSpoke on bills: PL8040, PL8301, PL8314, PL8320, PL8321, PL8350, PL8365, PL8377, PL8405, PL8510, PL8511, PL8524, PL8525, PL8528, PL8541.
\nSittings spoken in: 37.
\n26 June 2024 — rejecting the charge that the Chamber was not informed
\n\n\nMee dee Virworf, d’Chamber wär net informéiert ginn iwwert déi nei Regimmer a wéi et wäert weidergoen, dat ass net richteg.
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But the reproach that the Chamber was not informed about the new schemes and about what happens next is not correct.
\n\n20 March 2024 — stating that the EU will file a written submission for its member states
\n\n\nD’Europäesch Unioun huet an hirem Conseil den 19. Dezember 2023 decidéiert, datt si géif eng Soumission écrite eragi fir hir Memberstaaten, déi och do den Accord ginn hunn.
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The European Union decided in its Council on 19 December 2023 that it would file a written submission for its member states, which also gave their agreement there.
\n\n14 December 2023 — stating the emission reduction targets fixed by the conference
\n\n\nWat hei elo festgehal ginn ass, ass bis 2030 minus 43 % vun den Zäregasen a bis 2040 minus 60 % vun den Zäregasen, an da bis 2050 déi sougenannt „Net Zero“, also „Net Zero Carbon“, also CO2-Emissiounen.
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What has been fixed here is minus 43% of greenhouse gases by 2030 and minus 60% by 2040, and then by 2050 so-called Net Zero, that is Net Zero Carbon, meaning CO2 emissions.
\n\n14 March 2024 — the minister announcing the 2022 emissions report and stating that emissions fell in all five sectors
\n\n\nAn net méi spéit wéi muer wäert den Ëmweltministère och den Emissiounsbilan publizéiere fir d’Joer 2022, sou wéi dat iwwert de Règlement grandducal virgesinn ass, an do wäert Der gesinn, datt an alle fënnef Secteuren d’Emissiounen erofginn.
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And no later than tomorrow the environment ministry will publish the emissions report for 2022, as the grand-ducal regulation provides, and you will see that emissions fell in all five sectors.
\n\n20 March 2024 — naming the countries already suffering from climate change
\n\n\nKleng Inselstaaten, déi wirtschaftlech am mannsten entwéckelt Staaten an Afrika, an Asien, a Südamerika leiden haut schonn ënnert de Konsequenze vum Klimawandel, deen do ass.
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Small island states, the economically least developed states in Africa, in Asia, in South America already suffer today from the consequences of the climate change that is here.
\n\n26 June 2024 — stating the government's plan for the subsidy scheme
\n\n\nEt ass ganz kloer vun der Regierung kommunizéiert ginn, datt ab dem 1. Oktober en neie Regimm kënnt, an deen heite wäert verlängert gi bis den 30. September.
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The government has communicated very clearly that a new scheme comes from 1 October, and that this one will be extended to 30 September.
\n\n22 October 2024 — using the bicycle premium as a comparison for ending a subsidy
\n\n\nWann 80.000 Vëloe kaaft gi sinn, mengen ech, huet et kee Wäert méi, déi Vëloen nach ze subsidéieren.
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Once 80,000 bicycles have been bought, I think there is no point in subsidising those bicycles any longer.
\n\n4 December 2024 — stating the figure agreed at COP29 for climate finance
\n\n\nEt ass awer eng Verdräifachung vun 100 Milliarden US-Dollar pro Joer op 300 Milliarden US-Dollar pro Joer bis 2035.
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It is, however, a tripling from 100 billion US dollars a year to 300 billion US dollars a year by 2035.
\n\n22 January 2025 — defending the COP process as the reason the two-degree path is still open
\n\n\nMir hu villes nach ze maachen, mee wann haut net zum Beispill eng Klima-COP géif existéieren, och kee Paräisser Accord géif existéieren, wäre mer net um Wee, fir vläicht, wa mer et kéinten, mat vill Efforten nach ze packen, ënner zwee Grad ze bleiwen, mee da wäre mer um Wee, fir op dräi oder véier Grad ze kommen.
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We still have much to do, but if a climate COP did not exist today, and no Paris Agreement either, we would not be on the path to possibly staying under two degrees with great effort, we would be on the path to three or four degrees.
\n\n9 July 2025 — the minister stating that the 2030 greenhouse gas target will be met
\n\n\nA mir wäerten, esou wéi et ausgesäit, och leschte Berechnunge vun der Europäescher Unioun no, als Unioun, mee och als Land, mol d’2030er Zil erreeche bei den Zäregasen, déi minus 55 %, souwuel als Unioun wéi als Land.
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And as it looks, according to the latest calculations of the European Union, we will reach the 2030 greenhouse gas target, minus 55%, both as a Union and as a country.
\n\n29 October 2025 — explaining how Luxembourg is represented at the conference
\n\n\nLëtzebuerg geet net als Land mat enger eegener Positioun dohinner. Mir ginn dohinner als Deel vun der EU.
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Luxembourg does not go there as a country with its own position. We go there as part of the EU.
\n\n2 December 2025 — stating that the European delegation arrived late with its negotiating mandate
\n\n\nD’europäesch Delegatioun ass effektiv spéit mat engem Mandat, wéi d’Europäesch Unioun dat traditionell ëmmer mécht.
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The European delegation is indeed late with a mandate, as the European Union traditionally always does.
\n\n30 October 2025 — the minister announcing the decision on the route of a high-voltage line upgrade
\n\n\nAn dës Regierung huet dann och endlech d’Decisioune geholl vum éischten Tracé vun der Héichspannungsleitung, déi muss ausgebaut ginn, nämlech déijéineg, déi vun Aach erofgeet bis op Bartreng, déi mer wëllen ausbaue vun 220.000 op 380.000 Volt, well déi ganz Dekarboniséierung brauch natierlech vill méi Stroum.
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And this government has finally taken the decisions on the first route of the high-voltage line that must be upgraded, namely the one running from Aach down to Bertrange, which we want to upgrade from 220,000 to 380,000 volts, because the whole decarbonisation naturally needs much more electricity.
\n\n30 April 2025 — stating the total cost of the salary agreement for the state budget
\n\n\nEch schwätze vu ronn 272 Milliounen Euro, deen den Accord de Staatsbudget wäert kaschten.
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I am speaking of around 272 million euros that the agreement will cost the state budget.
\n\n2 May 2024 — explaining why the government refused the CGFP's proposal to avoid the term evaluation
\n\n\nWell et muss een awer och kënnen éierlech sinn an d’Kand beim Numm nennen. Et ass e Bewäertungssystem, deen et bei der Arméi gëtt, an da soll een et och esou nennen!
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Because you must also be able to be honest and call the child by its name. It is an evaluation system that exists in the army, and so it should also be called that!
\n\n10 October 2024 — describing the bill as a faithful transposition of the accord
\n\n\nMir maachen eng fidèle Transpositioun an d’Gesetz vun engem Accord, deen d’lescht Joer nach tëschent mengem Virgänger an der Bréifdréieschgewerkschaft ausgemaach ginn ass.
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We are making a faithful transposition into law of an accord that was agreed last year between my predecessor and the postal workers' union.
\n\n5 December 2024 — stating that the last point of the 2022 agreement took two years to implement
\n\n\nWann een den 9. Dezember 2022 en Accord fënnt a mer elo, zwee Joer drop, eréischt bei dem Ëmsetze vun deem leschte Punkt sinn – dat sinn zwee Joer.
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If you reach an agreement on 9 December 2022 and we are only now, two years later, at the implementation of the last point - that is two years.
\n\n13 February 2025 — naming the existing disciplinary body as the competent one
\n\n\nAn dat eenzegt Organ, dat wierklech ka probéieren, iwwert déi ganz Panoplie vu Feelverhalen, dat ganzt Disziplinarrecht beim Staat ze enquêtéieren an herno och derfir ze suergen, datt et Konsequenze gëtt, ass de Commissariat chargé fir d’Procédure disciplinaire beim Staat.
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And the only body that can really try to investigate the whole range of misconduct, the entire disciplinary law of the state, and then also make sure that there are consequences, is the Commissariat responsible for the disciplinary procedure in the state.
\n\n30 April 2025 — answering the demand for municipal transposition by reporting that the interior minister has started the grand-ducal regulation
\n\n\nMee hien huet elo och scho mat senge Servicer dee Règlement grand-ducal an d’Procedure legislative ginn, fir och d’Harmoniséierung vun den ënneschte Karriäre bei de Gemengen ëmzesetzen.
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But he has now already put the grand-ducal regulation into the legislative procedure with his services, in order to implement the harmonisation of the lower careers in the municipalities as well.
\n\n26 June 2025 — the minister stating that the quoted words come from an ongoing court case that the government won at first instance
\n\n\nEt ass nämlech effektiv an engem lafende Prozess, wou dat heite gesot ginn ass, deen an där éischter Instanz der Regierung hirer Positioun Recht ginn huet.
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This was in fact said in an ongoing court case, which at first instance found in favour of the government's position.
\n\n26 June 2025 — the minister stating that unions speaking as unions have a very wide freedom of expression
\n\n\nAn et ass och kloer an d’Basis vun de Jurisprudenzen, datt se, wa se als Gewerkschaft schwätzen, eng Liberté d’expression hunn, déi ganz wäit ass a ganz grouss ass.
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And it is also clear, on the basis of the case law, that when they speak as a union they have a freedom of expression that is very wide and very large.
\n\n14 October 2025 — stating what the bill achieves, in the government's reply
\n\n\nAn dat ass e grousse Schratt no vir, genausou wéi och déi weider Digitaliséierung vun de Prozeduren heimadder no vir gedriwwe gëtt.
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And that is a big step forward, just as the further digitalisation of the procedures is driven forward by this.
\n\n2 December 2025 — stating the government's commitment to the CGFP to implement the pay agreement within a set time
\n\n\nMir hunn eis verflicht par rapport zur CGFP, dat och dann ëmmer an engem gewëssenen Delai ze maachen, fir datt och eis Beamtinnen a Beamte vun deenen Avantagë vun deem Accord salarial kënne profitéieren.
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We committed ourselves to the CGFP to always do this within a certain time limit, so that our civil servants can benefit from the advantages of that pay agreement.
\n\n2 December 2025 — committing to use the state HR network to inform all civil servants about the new measure
\n\n\nA mir hunn eis dozou engagéiert, datt mer géifen och eise Reseau RH notzen, dee mir hu beim Staat, fir déi Informatioun elo hei un all eis Staatsbeamtinnen a -beamten och weiderzeginn, fir datt och jiddweree weess, datt en an Zukunft vun engem besseren Taux a enger méi laanger Lafzäit ka profitéieren.
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And we committed ourselves to also use our HR network in the state to pass this information on to all our civil servants, so that everyone knows that in future they can benefit from a better rate and a longer term.
\n\n29 April 2026 — giving the number of staff covered by each of the two measures
\n\n\nDat heescht, fir déi zwee Cas-defiguren ass et esou, datt ronn 1.000 Employéen an de Régime de pension vun de Fonctionnairë falen an ongeféier 1.100 Employéen déi nei Konditiounen, fir fonctionnariséiert ze ginn, erfëllen.
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That means, for the two cases, around 1,000 employees fall under the civil servants' pension regime and about 1,100 employees meet the new conditions to be made civil servants.
\n\n2 July 2024 — stating that he has not been formally mandated to hold the water round table
\n\n\nEch sinn u sech bis elo net formell domadder beoptraagt ginn, fir dee Waasserdësch ze maachen.
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I have not so far been formally mandated to hold that water round table.
\n\n2 July 2024 — confirming the coalition programme provides for another water round table
\n\n\nMir hunn dat awer och an eisem Koalitiounsprogramm stoen, datt mer nach e Waasserdësch wëllen organiséieren.
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But we do have it in our coalition programme that we still want to organise a water round table.
\n\n18 March 2025 — committing the government to protect people and the environment from the forever chemicals
\n\n\nMee eppes ass ganz sécher: Mir wäerten als Regierung eis Verantwortung iwwerhuelen an deenen eenzelnen Domäner, fir datt mer eis Matbiergerinnen a Matbierger an och eis Ëmwelt wäerte virun deenen Éiwegkeets-Chemikalie kënne schützen.
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But one thing is certain: as a government we will take our responsibility in each of these areas, so that we can protect our fellow citizens and our environment from these forever chemicals.
\n\n1 April 2025 — stating that no majority exists among the 46 Council of Europe member states for the additional protocol
\n\n\nAn et muss een awer och der Realitéit an d’A kucken, well d’Madamm Beissel huet ganz Recht: Am Conseil de l’Europe, bei de 46 Memberstaaten, gëtt et effektiv am Moment keng Majoritéit, fir op de Wee ze goen, et an de Protocole additionel als Form vu Mënschrecht anzeschreiwen.
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And you also have to face reality, because Mrs Beissel is quite right: in the Council of Europe, among the 46 member states, there is at present no majority for taking the route of writing it into the additional protocol as a form of human right.
\n\n26 June 2025 — the minister explaining why the extension is needed
\n\n\nEt ass wichteg, datt mer déi Verlängerung kréien, fir datt mer besonnesch am Süden och kënnen derfir suergen, datt alles, wat do bebaut ginn ass, och ka reegelkonform zum Gesetz kompenséiert ginn.
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It is important that we get this extension, so that especially in the south we can make sure that everything that has been built there is compensated in line with the law.
\n\n14 October 2025 — stating that legal limit values are missing for most pharmaceutical substances in water
\n\n\nAllerdéngs, well et fir déi meescht vun deene Substanze keng offiziell gesetzlech Grenzwäerter gëtt, also keng sougenannten Norme fir d’Ëmweltqualitéit, ass et net méiglech, formell ze bewäerten, ob deen Niveau dann elo akzeptabel ass, bedenklech oder geféierlech.
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However, because there are no official legal limit values for most of these substances, no environmental quality standards, it is not possible to assess formally whether a level is acceptable, worrying, or dangerous.
\n\n2 December 2025 — stating that complete eradication of the hornet is no longer a realistic aim
\n\n\nDowéinst muss een och der Realitéit an d’A kucken a soen, datt mer warscheinlech elo net méi onbedéngt als Zil kënnen hunn, eng komplett Eradicatioun dovunner ze maachen, mee datt mer natierlech awer nach alles musse maachen, fir dee Problem iergendwéi nach an de Grëff ze kréien.
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That is why we must look reality in the eye and say that we probably can no longer have complete eradication as our aim, but that we of course still have to do everything to get the problem under control somehow.
\n\n2 December 2025 — stating the number of nests removed by the nature administration in 2025
\n\n\nAm Joer 2025, also dëst Joer, si schonn 215 Näschter eleng vun der ANF fortgemaach ginn.
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In 2025, that is this year, 215 nests have already been removed by the ANF alone.
\n\n21 January 2026 — the environment minister announcing a water resilience strategy before the summer
\n\n\nAn dowéinst wäerte mer och da warscheinlech virum Summer mat der Waasserresilienzstrategie kommen, déi déi doten Aspekter alleguer dann och wäert beinhalten, an dann och herno deklinéieren, wéi mer dat wäerten ëmsetzen.
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And that is why we will probably come before the summer with the water resilience strategy, which will contain all these aspects and then set out how we will implement them.
\n\n18 March 2026 — stating when he set up the interministerial working group
\n\n\nAn dowéinst hat ech den 10. Juli 2024 d’Initiativ geholl, en interministeriellen Aarbechtsgrupp an d’Liewen ze ruffen.
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And for that reason, on 10 July 2024 I took the initiative to set up an interministerial working group.
\n\n30 April 2026 — the minister stating that the 2027 target will not be met
\n\n\nAn och effektiv, déi aktuell Deadline, déi mer anzehalen hunn, nämlech bis 2027, fir eis Baachen a Flëss an e gudden Zoustand ze bréngen, nee, déi wäerte mer net erreechen.
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And indeed the current deadline we have to meet, namely by 2027 to bring our streams and rivers into good condition, no, we will not meet it.
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