VP Sara Duterte, hinarap ang Senate Finance Committee kaugnay sa panukalang pondo ng OVP; panukalang budget ng OVP, lusot na sa Committee level ng Senado; DepEd, ipinaliwanag kung bakit kailangan ng confidential funds
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00:00 The Senate's committee level approved the budget proposal of the Office of the Vice President for the next year.
00:06 Meanwhile, the DepEd explained in the budget hearing why the agency needs confidential funds.
00:14 Daniel Manalastas has more.
00:16 "Is there a confidential fund that is not?"
00:20 cried Vice President Sara Duterte,
00:23 that they can work in the Office of the Vice President.
00:26 He also bravely faced the questions from his fellow Senate committee on finance
00:32 regarding the OVP budget for the next year.
00:36 "We can only propose, but we are not insisting.
00:39 We can live without confidential funds.
00:41 But of course, our work will be much easier if we have the flexibility of confidential funds
00:50 in monitoring the safe, secure, and successful implementations of the programs, projects, and activities of the Office of the Vice President."
00:59 VP Sara also answered the repeated questions of the Senators in the minority
01:04 regarding confidential funds,
01:06 such as the legal basis and the mandate of the OVP.
01:11 "Which mandates of the Office of the Vice President will be supported by the aforementioned allocation of the confidential funds?"
01:19 "It is intended for the safe, secure, and successful implementations of programs, projects, and activities
01:26 and engagements of me and all the satellite offices."
01:33 The OVP also mentioned one by one their programs.
01:36 "The buses donated to me, I lent to the Office of the Vice President to support the Libling Sakay."
01:46 "In addition to that, I discharged the functions and duties of the Secretary of the Department of Education.
01:56 And in addition to that, I was tasked by the President to co-chair the National Task Force on Ending Local Communist..."
02:11 "NTF-LCOC."
02:12 "And in addition to that, I also took on the role of President of the Southeast Asian Education Ministers Organization, CIMEO."
02:23 "And all of these activities use confidential funds."
02:30 The OVP will discuss the security detail of more than 400 buses.
02:36 "As to the number of VPSPG personnel, the determination on the number and deployment of VPSPG personnel
02:45 is largely dependent on the assessment of the AFP and the PNP."
02:51 "Actually, the AFP has just recommended that, being that the Vice President is clearly in all these target lists
03:03 and is always under threat."
03:06 "I suspect, because I have security, let's say we have six or four, they are not together, right?
03:13 Because someone is taking a rest, there's a shifting, right?
03:16 There's no need for an alert, right? There's a day shift, there's a night shift."
03:20 In the budget hearing, the Department of Education was questioned by Undersecretary Michael Powa
03:25 on why they need confidential funds that are used to recruit or manage rebels in schools and fight illegal drugs.
03:35 "The numbers, for example, for recruitment, 12.3% of the rebels, those who surrendered 2016 to 2020,
03:43 were minors, not 12 to 17 years old.
03:46 In fact, we have information that 16 schools just within Metro Manila are involved in recruitment activities."
03:53 "2.5 million pesos per classroom would actually contribute 60 classrooms. Not bad.
04:01 Ano yung bisikbawa? Not bad."
04:03 "Your Honor, as the Vice President always says, the DepEd also differs to the wisdom of Congress."
04:10 In the face of VP Sara in the committee earlier,
04:13 they immediately strengthened the funding they are collecting from the Senate committee for the budget of the OVP.
04:20 Daniel Manalastas, for the "Bayan".