Between March 2024 and April 2026 the Chamber returned again and again to the buildings and roads the State pays for: the financing law for the Bonnevoie lycée and the public-private partnership dropped for it, the annual orientation debates on the list of large infrastructure projects, the rise of the cost threshold above which a project must come to the Chamber, and single bills for the Ettelbruck youth hostel, the Ale Kolléisch, the Howald interchange and three administrative buildings at Kirchberg. Deputies debated the cost, the delivery model and the time these projects take. The quotes below are taken verbatim from the Compte rendu officiel of each sitting.
\nOn 20 March 2024, during the vote on the financing law for the Bonnevoie lycée, Marc Lies recounted when the PPP for the lycée was dropped.
\n\n\nAn et ass dunn awer am November 2018 festgestallt ginn, datt dëse PPP net opportun wär, an duerfir ass dann dee Moment dëse Projet zréckgezu ginn.
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And then in November 2018 it was found that this PPP was not appropriate, and that is why the project was withdrawn at that moment.
\nSitting of 20 March 2024, Marc Lies, CSV
\nOn 3 December 2025, in the annual orientation debate on the financing of the large infrastructure projects, Marc Lies criticised the length of public building procedures.
\n\n\nD’Dauer vun den ëffentleche Bauten ass e laangwierege Prozess an et vergeet ze vill Zäit tëscht deenen éischten Etüden an der Aweiung vum fäerdege Projet.
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Public building work is a long-drawn-out process and too much time passes between the first studies and the opening of the finished project.
\nSitting of 3 December 2025, Marc Lies, CSV
\nOn 25 June 2024, in the debate on the proposal raising the threshold above which infrastructure projects come to the Chamber, Corinne Cahen reported agreement in her committee to raise the threshold in line with inflation so that the plenary discusses only large projects.
\n\n\nA mir waren ons alleguerten eens, mengen ech, dass mer dee Seuil wéilten an d’Luucht setzen, einfach un d’Inflatioun och upassen, fir dass mer hei an der Chamber och just nach am Plenum iwwert déi grouss Infrastrukturprojete schwätzen.
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And we all agreed, I think, that we wanted to raise that threshold, simply to adjust it to inflation as well, so that here in the Chamber we only discuss the big infrastructure projects in the plenary.
\nSitting of 25 June 2024, Corinne Cahen, DP
\nOn 10 February 2026, reporting on the additional financing law for the Howald interchange, Corinne Cahen stated how far the excavated soil exceeded the estimate.
\n\n\nEt goung een dervunner aus, dass 1.200 Tonne Buedem missten oftransportéiert ginn. Mëttlerweil sinn et éischter scho ronn 70.000 Tonne Buedem.
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It was assumed that 1,200 tonnes of soil would have to be carted away. By now it is rather about 70,000 tonnes of soil.
\nSitting of 10 February 2026, Corinne Cahen, DP
\nOn 12 December 2024, in the orientation debate on the list of projects above 30 million euros, Yves Cruchten stated the average time from planning to completion for road projects.
\n\n\nFir d’Stroossebauprojeten zum Beispill kënne mer eng Moyenne vun 21 Joer feststellen, déi et brauch tëscht der Planung an der Fäerdegstellung.
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For road building projects, for example, we can see an average of 21 years between planning and completion.
\nSitting of 12 December 2024, Yves Cruchten, LSAP
\nOn 29 April 2026, in the debate on the three administrative buildings at Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Yves Cruchten commented on one building going to the ministry that asks the other ministries to save.
\n\n\nAn et ass net ouni Ironie, dass dat grad fir dee Ministère ass, deen amgaangen ass, deenen anere Ministèren am Moment dauernd ze soen, si solle wannechgelift spueren.
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And it is not without irony that this is precisely for the ministry that is constantly telling the other ministries at the moment that they should please save.
\nSitting of 29 April 2026, Yves Cruchten, LSAP
\nOn 12 December 2024, in the orientation debate on the list of projects above 30 million euros, Jeff Engelen proposed a transversal road between Fridhaff and Feelen.
\n\n\nEiser Meenung no wier do eng Transversale, esou wéi mer se zu Clierf elo gebaut hunn, tëscht dem Fridhaff a Feelen déi besser Variant an déi géif all déi beschriwwe Problemer léisen.
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In our view a transversal road between the Fridhaff and Feelen, like the one we have now built at Clervaux, would be the better option and would solve all the problems described.
\nSitting of 12 December 2024, Jeff Engelen, ADR
\nOn 3 December 2025, in the annual orientation debate on the financing of the large infrastructure projects, Michel Lemaire explained his group's support for the motion by the pressure of the country's strong growth.
\n\n\nEch mengen, de stramme Wuesstem, sou wéi mer en hunn, zwéngt eis jo ze investéieren.
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I think the strong growth we have forces us to invest.
\nSitting of 3 December 2025, Michel Lemaire, ADR
\nOn 20 March 2024, during the vote on the financing law for the Bonnevoie lycée, François Bausch warned that PPPs are neither cheaper nor faster.
\n\n\nGleeft net drun, datt d’PPPe méi bëlleg ginn oder méi séier ginn.
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Do not believe that PPPs are cheaper or faster.
\nSitting of 20 March 2024, François Bausch, déi gréng
\nOn 3 December 2025, in the annual orientation debate on the financing of the large infrastructure projects, Meris Sehovic stated that most of the projects voted on are not yet in the budget or the multi-annual financial planning.
\n\n\nAll déi Projeten, iwwert déi mer haut ofstëmme wäerten, all déi Projeten, déi mer d’lescht an d’virlescht Joer ofgestëmmt hunn zum Ulass vun dësem Débat d’orientation, sinn alles Projeten, déi zu engem groussen Deel haut nach net am Budget an och net an der pluriannueller Finanzplanung erëmzefanne sinn.
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All the projects we will vote on today, and all the projects we voted on last year and the year before on the occasion of this orientation debate, are to a large extent projects that are still not to be found in the budget or in the multi-annual financial planning.
\nSitting of 3 December 2025, Meris Sehovic, déi gréng
\nOn 15 May 2024, in the debate on the bill financing the Ettelbruck youth hostel and administrative building, Ben Polidori compared the cost with the Esch youth hostel.
\n\n\nSouguer wann een d’Inflatioun do drarechent, gesi mer, dass d’Jugendherberg zu Ettelbréck ronn dräimol esou deier gëtt wéi déi zu Esch.
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Even when you factor in inflation, we see that the youth hostel in Ettelbruck is becoming about three times as expensive as the one in Esch.
\nSitting of 15 May 2024, Ben Polidori, Piraten
\nOn 25 June 2024, in the debate on the proposal raising the threshold above which infrastructure projects come to the Chamber, Marc Goergen said it was important to him to keep transparency for the projects below the new threshold.
\n\n\nDo war et mir awer ganz wichteg, dass mer d’Transparenz bäibehalen, dass mer net einfach soen: „De Seuil vun der Motioun geet erop op déi 30 Milliounen“, well déi ënnendrënner géifen da verluer goen.
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There it was very important to me that we keep transparency, that we do not simply say: “The threshold for the motion goes up to 30 million”, because the ones below that would then be lost.
\nSitting of 25 June 2024, Marc Goergen, Piraten
\nOn 20 March 2024, during the vote on the financing law for the Bonnevoie lycée, David Wagner rejected PPPs as a delivery model.
\n\n\nDat heescht, de PPP ass keng gutt Léisung, ausser vläicht heiansdo fir Buergermeeschteren oder vläicht och Regierungen, déi sech e bëssen aus der Verantwortung wëllen huelen.
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That means the PPP is not a good solution, except perhaps sometimes for mayors or governments that want to take themselves a bit out of responsibility.
\nSitting of 20 March 2024, David Wagner, déi Lénk
\nOn 25 April 2024, in the orientation debate on the financing of the State's large infrastructure projects, David Wagner named what his group finds missing from the list, while supporting the motion.
\n\n\nWat mir awer vläicht prinzipiell vermëssen, dat si gréisser staatlech Investitiounen am Beräich vun der Energietransitioun.
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What we perhaps miss on principle are larger state investments in the field of the energy transition.
\nSitting of 25 April 2024, David Wagner, déi Lénk
\nOn 25 April 2024, in the orientation debate on the financing of the State's large infrastructure projects, the Minister of Mobility and Public Works stated the government's reason for the investment programme.
\n\n\nEt ass wichteg, dass mer hei weider an eis Infrastrukturen investéieren, fir se ze verbesseren, fir se ze moderniséieren.
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It is important that we keep investing in our infrastructure, to improve it and to modernise it.
\nSitting of 25 April 2024, Yuriko Backes, Ministre de la Mobilité et des Travaux publics
\nOn 3 December 2025, in the annual orientation debate on the financing of the large infrastructure projects, the Minister of Mobility and Public Works stated the share of the state budget spent through her ministry.
\n\n\nEch mengen, och do gesitt Der, dass d’Zuele wierklech op engem ganz, ganz héijen Niveau bleiwen, wa mer e Staatsbudget hu vun 30 Milliarden an 3,5 Milliarde ginn dann an alles ronderëm den MMTP, wat da vu mir an de Verwaltungen, déi mer dann ënnerstinn, duerchgefouert gëtt.
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I think here too you see that the figures really stay at a very, very high level: we have a state budget of 30 billion, and 3.5 billion go into everything around the MMTP, carried out by me and by the administrations under me.
\nSitting of 3 December 2025, Yuriko Backes, Ministre de la Mobilité et des Travaux publics
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