Question élargie n° 84 by Laurent Mosar on strengthening Luxembourg as a seat of the European institutions and on the future of the Translation Centre, answered by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, followed by one supplementary question.
Two bus financing bills were debated and voted: projet de loi 8632 on school bus transport, adopted by 51 votes to 4 with 5 abstentions, and projet de loi 8637 on specialised transport services (Mobibus), adopted on the same figures; a motion tabled by Yves Cruchten and signed by all groups, asking the government to have the Autorité de la concurrence analyse the specialised transport market, was adopted unanimously.
Projet de loi 8594 on building three administrative buildings at Luxembourg-Kirchberg, for the European Stability Mechanism, for the administrative courts and for the Finance Ministry, adopted unanimously with 60 votes.
Interpellation by Djuna Bernard on the national action plan against poverty, debated by all groups on the day Statec published a revised poverty rate, and answered by four ministers; at the end of her speech Claire Delcourt tabled proposition de loi 8744 creating a right to universal health cover.
Housing costs were debated at length inside the poverty interpellation as the main structural driver of poverty, with proposals on rent regulation and public building, and a reply from Claude Meisch on the housing chapter of the plan.