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00:00You may not like the person, you may not like his presence here, but you have to respect the office of the Vice President.
00:08Vice President Sara Tuterte is not sure about the continuation of the deliverance of the camera in the budget of the office of the Vice President.
00:16But like in the last hearing, the tension in the camera was high earlier.
00:20The question of the Bipartisan Representative Rudante Marcoleta,
00:23will the tradition of giving a courtesy to the OVP be put aside when it comes to the immediate approval of this budget?
00:29There should be no more questions. What happened is a barrage of questions.
00:34That's why I'm asking, why did we do that earlier?
00:38Are we not already respecting a tradition well kept by the government?
00:42The hearing even got heated when it was suspended.
00:45Why did you suspend?
00:47We are also members, just the same.
00:52When the hearing continued,
00:54For non-tradition!
00:56Representative Marcoleta motioned to suspend the budget hearing and to approve the OVP budget.
01:02But the motion was lost.
01:03We will uphold the tradition if we will turn our responsibility to the people
01:10to approve and approve our budget.
01:15Aside from the absence of a voice, there was also no OVP staff who attended the hearing.
01:20The head of agency should be present.
01:23And I do not care even if she is the Vice President, Madam Chair.
01:27I will not allow that Congress will be insulted by the head of any agency.
01:34In the letter sent by VP Sara to House Speaker Martin Romualdez,
01:38he said that he ordered the House Appropriations Committee to approve their budget.
01:43All documents are already in the committee,
01:45in accordance with the budget they are asking for.
01:47Bratinella to the max.
01:49If you will not answer, Madam,
01:51I have already asked you, I am now moving.
01:54Yes, sorry.
01:56Do you have a bratinella?
01:58COA and Budget Departments answered the questions of the Congressmen.
02:03Including the 53 million pesos spent on the annual rent and the use of 12 satellite offices
02:09that were built by the OVP in 2023.
02:12Including the OVP's expired and non-distributed relief goods,
02:16and 65 million pesos of unliquidated funds.
02:19If not submitted within the time given with the OVP,
02:23we will address it or issue a notice of suspension.
02:27The notice of disallowance of COA to the OVP was asked by Mark Culeta.
02:31There is no guilt yet,
02:33until and unless you are able to receive the reply,
02:38the answer and the explanation of the office of the Vice President.
02:42That is correct.
02:44Have you received a copy?
02:48Of the reply?
02:49Yes.
02:50They have not yet replied.
02:52In the end, the termination of the OVP's 2025 budget was deferred.
02:57We are continuing to get the opinion of Vice President Duterte,
03:00not on the issues that are being brought to him.
03:02Along with the deliberation on the camera,
03:05a video was released today of his response.
03:08Here, the House Speaker accused the House Appropriations Committee Chairman, Zaldico.
03:13The budget of the Philippines is held by only two people.
03:17It is held by Congressman Zaldico and Congressman Martin Romualdez.
03:23In 2023, a budget of 5 billion pesos was approved by the Department of Education
03:29for the establishment of a classroom.
03:31I was surprised.
03:32Because there are members of the House who are asking.
03:38They are asking for the 5 billion, part of the 5 billion budget.
03:43How much do we have there?
03:45So I said, this cannot happen.
03:49Because what will happen is,
03:52the Department of Education will not be able to do our job of constructing a classroom.
03:59When he did not agree, the budget decreased to 15 billion pesos
04:03in the approved National Budget or General Appropriations Act.
04:07But what was added,
04:08That 10 billion was not controlled by the Department of Education.
04:14It was controlled by Congressman Zaldico and Congressman Martin Romualdez.
04:21This year, the camera reduced the budget of 5 billion pesos
04:27for the classroom repairs of the DepEd
04:29and was added to the classroom construction.
04:31But according to the Vice President,
04:33the camera covered the list of where the classrooms will be built.
04:37I just added that to the confirmation that they got the DepEd budget.
04:48And that is one of the reasons why I resigned from the Department of Education.
04:54I will not allow that next year,
04:57they will do the same thing and I will be responsible for what they are doing.
05:02We asked for a statement from the office of Speaker Romualdez,
05:06but they did not give a statement yet.
05:08On behalf of my representative,
05:10the Vice President called it a fraud
05:12that Romualdez controlled the National Budget.
05:16It is a big lie.
05:18They think the people are not smart.
05:21We will answer that.
05:23First of all, the number of appropriations is around 139.
05:28The Vice Chair is around 56.
05:31The Congressman is 300.
05:33We have 24 Senators.
05:36There is a member of the Bicameral Conference Committee.
05:40Almost 30 are attending.
05:43He also reduced the budget due to the use of the Confidential Fund of 2022.
05:48Remember, COA and not the Congress
05:52are saying that the use of the Confidential Fund of 73 million to 125 million was wrong.
06:00It was only used within 11 days.
06:04The Napolis Fund, which was used for 60 days, lost here.
06:11This is only 11 days.
06:14And now, are we still going to give him 2 billion to spend on the poor?
06:22We will give this to the right agency.
06:26Let us not allow them to steal even a penny that we should be watching.
06:34We asked VP Sara for a job here for GMA Integrated News.
06:40I am Marisol Abduraman, your witness.
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