Continuation of the general policy debate on the state of the nation, in which the government's ten-point housing plan, the simplified building procedures and the pilot project of state-rented private housing were contested; Sven Clement tabled motion 4 asking for an evaluation after one and after three years of who benefits from the housing package, and the Chamber rejected it by 35 votes to 20 with 5 abstentions.
During the state of the nation debate the announced tax measures were contested: the adjustment of the tax table to inflation, the cut of corporate tax from 17 to 16 percent and the single tax class for 2026; Sam Tanson tabled motion 3 for an ecological, social and fair tax reform including a 45 percent top rate, and the Chamber rejected it by 40 votes to 17 with 3 abstentions.
The debate turned on poverty, the working poor, the minimum wage and child poverty; Taina Bofferding's motion 1 asked the government to take a list of anti-poverty measures, including 100 euros net more on the minimum wage, into the national anti-poverty action plan, and the Chamber rejected it by 35 votes to 25.
The announced reduction of the Klimabonus subsidies for electric cars, bicycles and photovoltaic installations was debated; Sven Clement tabled motion 5 to keep the 8,000 euro bonus for people switching from a combustion car to an electric one, and the Chamber rejected it by 40 votes to 20.
The phasing-out of the energy price cap from 1 January 2025, the remaining cap on electricity and the effect on inflation were debated, and the Prime Minister answered Sam Tanson's question with the Statec figure.
Francine Closener tabled, for the Petitions Committee, a proposal to amend the Chamber's rules on petitions, raising the signature threshold for a public debate to 5,500; the state of the nation debate that followed covered citizen participation, voting rights, the way the Prime Minister's speech was distributed and his offer to make the question hour livelier.
The Chamber's scientific cell note on the City of Luxembourg's begging ban was argued over by Sam Tanson, Lydie Polfer and Taina Bofferding, and the ban came back in the debate on Taina Bofferding's motion 2 on support for people living in precarity, which the Chamber rejected by 40 votes to 20.
The state of the nation debate turned on competitiveness, business taxation and the diversification of the economy as the route to jobs and to financing the welfare state.