Finance minister Gilles Roth gave the government's reply to the two-day general debate on the 2024 budget bill 8383 and the multiannual financial programming, answered questions from Tom Weidig and Sam Tanson, and the Chamber then debated and adopted the 2022 general account bill 8258 by 60 votes.
The Chamber debated and rejected two budget motions on housing: Taina Bofferding's motion asking the government to deliver a new rent-cap calculation method by September 2024 and more rent transparency, and Sven Clement's motion asking the state to raise the capital of the SNHBM so that its unsold homes can be let.
The Chamber rejected Taina Bofferding's budget motion asking for a higher tax-free minimum wage, changes to the REVIS minimum income after its evaluation, and a higher single-parent tax credit; the majority parties pointed to the national anti-poverty action plan being prepared.
The Chamber rejected Fred Keup's budget motion asking the government to introduce a Belgian-style professional diesel scheme, with the debate turning on the national energy and climate plan (PNEC) and on fuel excise revenue.
The Chamber rejected a Piraten motion, prompted by rapporteur Diane Adehm's report on over-indebtedness, asking the government not to create a credit-scoring database of the kind of the German SCHUFA; the finance minister said the government had no problem with the motion being adopted.
The Chamber rejected a Piraten motion asking the prime minister to set written rules on the expenses of government members, after the prime minister had told the committee on 25 March that he could imagine putting such rules in writing.
The Chamber adopted by 56 votes Fernand Kartheiser's budget motion calling on Rwanda to respect the territorial sovereignty of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to withdraw its troops, in the context of the embassy Luxembourg is opening in Kigali.
The Chamber adopted by 39 votes to 17 Fernand Kartheiser's budget motion asking the government to keep unanimity in EU tax matters, after he cited a DP lead candidate's warning against clinging to the tax veto.