VP Sara Duterte, no show sa pagdinig ng Kamara sa OVP budget; ilang kongresista, nagkainitan

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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.

07:10For more UN videos visit www.un.org

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