MP Gilles Baum, leader of the DP parliamentary group, first spoke about the achievements of the ending legislative period. He named the Covid aids for businesses and partial unemployment as successful means of helping people retain their jobs and businesses stay afloat during and after the pandemic.
The politician also talked about the importance of ongoing projects, such as the so-called solidarity packets and energy aids: “Thanks to the measures that we have taken, ... we managed to keep inflation in check, which are all positive consequences for people.”
While DP officials showed themselves disappointed that state finances did not allow for a tax reform in their estimation, they hope to implement one in the next legislative period.
MP André Bauler assured: “We have planned it for 2024, with the tax scale once again being adjusted to inflation. We will regularly try to do this, that is one step. The other is to gradually create reliefs with a general concept.”
Earlier this week, the Christian Social People’s Party (CSV) called on the DP to not approve the draft law on outpatient care, which will be up for vote on Thursday.
MP Baum is however resolved to support the motion, describing draft bill 8009 as a “first step in the right direction since it allows the opening of decentralised structures outside of hospitals, bringing medical care closer to people.”
The DP also wants to discuss the limitation of medical equipment in the next legislative period: “Waiting times for mammographies, for example, are way too long due to lacking equipment or because not enough doctors are allowed to have them.” The DP further laments that a law on physicians’ abilities to form associations was not voted on due to a lack of time.
As for the contended housing law, DP officials acknowledged that there is room for improvement, particularly when it comes to communicating the details to people to generate greater acceptance.
Housing policies and tax reforms are therefore the main issues that the DP wants to tackle in the future.
