A motion by Sam Tanson asking the government to withhold consent to the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement unless the Paris Agreement, farmers and consumer standards are protected; Yves Cruchten added an invite to consult the Chamber before any Council decision, and the amended motion was rejected by 40 votes to 18 with 2 abstentions.
An orientation debate on the Ombudsman's activity reports for 2022 and 2023 (documents 8362 and 8393), with the rapporteur, each group and the minister for relations with parliament speaking on relations between citizens and the administration.
Motion 1, tabled by Marc Goergen during the Ombudsman debate, asked that owners who let below the legal maximum rent should not be penalised by the tax administration; the Chamber refused to send it to committee and then rejected it by 35 votes to 20 with 5 abstentions.
Two government question-time questions to the minister for home affairs: Fred Keup asked for crime statistics broken down by the sex of offenders and victims, and Meris Sehovic asked about police patrols on bicycles after a commissariat was forbidden to use bikes lent by municipalities.
In government question time Tom Weidig asked the minister for gender equality how many sexes there are, after the Observatoire de l'egalite stopped speaking only of men and women; the exchange ran through several interruptions.
In government question time Nathalie Morgenthaler asked the minister for family affairs about family measures he had announced on the radio, in particular changes to child benefit increments and further steps against child poverty.