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Monday, November 4, 2otg

Lacson: 'Unclear' P20B parked


rn various agencie s rn 2020 budget
BYASHZEL HACHENO House's 2020 GAB showed the Naka park ito kung saan-saan. May
. more ot less P20 billion allocations sa DILG, may as usual sa DPWH.
THERE is no "pork" inserted in were parked in agencies such as May ganoor at kung iipunin natin
the version of tJre proposed 2020 the Department of Intedor and [ahat'yan na sa tipgjn namin ay
General Local dovernment
Appropriauons BiX (GAB) ap-
IOIiE) ana hindr ma implement nang maayos
the Department of Public Wotks o hindi ma-implernent at all, dahil
proved by rhe House of Represen- and Highways (DP!flH). hindi maliwanag ci kaya nakalump
tatives but Sen. Panfilo Lacson said "May mganapansb kami na ma1. sum, nasa mga P20B (\fle noticed
there is an estimated P2O billion mga hindi rfalinaw kung saan dada- more .-,r less PlO billion in lump
"unclear" allocations "parked" in lhin ang pondo. Nagkakahalaga ito sum allocations the use of wluch
various government agencies, more or less estimate namin, nasa
Lacson said a review of the mga P20 billion. Hindi malinaur See LACSON ) Page 83

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LACSON changes he has seen so farrvas the P9.5
billion in instirudonal amendmenrs.
"We aim to hit the ground running
on the fint day of work. Time to roll up
were not clearly defined. Thel are Speaker Alao Peter Cayetano has out sleeves once again and work double
parked jn ranous agencies. There are made public the details on where the time on vital legislative measutes,', said
some at DILG, and as usual atDPWH. P9.5 billion ameqdmert will be used.
'We Romualdez.
think these projects will not be But Lacson said he was not sure The House leadcr:hip will prioririze
implemented propedy or will not be whethel it will be the same in the
implemented at all because it was not
Lhe passage of a con.olrdared ioinr
bicameral confercnce committee de- resolution so t-hat th. gou.rrr-.rri .*
teally cleat where they s,ill be used. liberations. still use the unused funds fot 2019 until
They were in iump sum)," Lacson said ' 'Ang hindi natin alam ano ,yong next yeru.
in an intervierv wit! &BB _vesterday. nasa armada nila na nakatago para sa Romualdez cited the delays in the
"Dahil naka-lump sum irp, .di na-
bicameral, 'yrn ang madugo. As far as enactmenr of Lhe 20lq CAB earl} firs
man siya matatawag na pork although 'yr:ng na-transmit sa amin, 'nrn latg year and the election ban on tlle imple-
napansin namin 5aan kara ito gagamitin na P9.5 billion so sana'prn na nga mentation of infrasttucture projects
at oung tiflanong naming ang mga at wala ng idagdag (We do not Lnow and social services as reasons for the
ahensya sa comminee hearing. di rin what they are plandng to do dunng measure's passage.
nila masagot (Because tlese are lump the bicameral conference commiftee The House will also prioritize the
sum allocations, \'ou cannot call these deliberations. As far as the version apptoval of the measure seeling to
pork. When u-e asked whete these that vas transmitted, the only change postponing barangay aod Sangguniang
fund. will be used du:r-rg t}e commtr- was the P9.5 bilJion amendment, and Kabataan elections from May 2020
tee hearings, even ttre agencies involved I am hoping that that will be the only to the second Monday of May 2023
did not kno.r')," he added. change)," he said. to grve the Commission on Elections
He also said: "j\far mga na[ta rin He said he and his colleagues will be (Comelec) enough time to prepare for
karni na .iguro sa matugir PI0 billion sa vigilant for any insertion ot changes the polls which will be held a yeat after
DP$fH lang na hindi malinaur Halim- during the bicameral committee. *re 2022 national elections.
bawa, P500M repair ng Kennon Road. 'Ang kailangang banuyan y'ung sa Romualdez said the House also aims
Saan 'yan? Hindi natin alam aoong bicameral. Dr naman malina may habu to discuss and fast ttack the approval
gagawin doon. Kailangan may km so lin sa bicameral kasi dun ite-reconcile of a pending joint lesolution authoriz-
and so to Lm so and so, iternized. Pero arrg version ng House at Senate pero ing the use of the rice subsidy for the
kung napakalaking bulro. kalahaung minsan ang nangyayari sa bicameral ay purchdse of pala) runhusked nce; from
b,lyong piso ar sasabiluo ino napaka may nagpapasok at '1'Lrn ang nakakaka- Farmer..,r" provided for in rJris year,s
general ng descriptioo, o kaya QC to ba. Bakit pa kailangaag mag-submit ang P3.757-trillion national budoer
EDSA, 'di mo alam saan 'yan, so hindi mga individual congressman ng indi- He noted that the House fias already
maimplementa 'yan (We saw P10 bii- vidual ptojecrs eh dumaan na sa plenary passed 18 measutes on third reading
[on for DPWH which was ambiguous.! '1-an? fll e will be closelt. warching rhe iince the start of the 18th Congresi
For exampale. P500M for the repair of bicameral There rs norhing wiorrg including rhe 2020 narional budger,
I(erroon Road. It was not stated rvhat il you change somerhing during rhe Le1 tax bills, and amendment, ro rhr
kind of repai they will do. It should bicameral deliberations because that Foreign Investment Act of 1991.
have contained km so and so to km so is when the different versions of the The tax legrslation \r/as among the
and so, it should have been iternized. If House and the Senate are reconciled. pnorrrl mersures identi6ed bv Presi-
it is rn lump sum. half a billion pesos What is worrisome is when they insett dentDutertein his State of thiNation
and iou do nor know where exacdy it something Why do thea oeed to do Addrers ISO\ tr ro open r}e Congres-
will be:pent. T doubr rhar rhar can oe that dudng the bicam when they could sional session.
'implemented)."
have proposed their ind-rvidual ptojecrs In his fourth SONA, Mr. Duterte
rX4ile making the revelation, Lacson
during uhe House plenary?;." he added. called for the passage of other mea-
was quick to cladfy that ,,this is not In Septembe;, the Senate and the sures includiog those authorizing tle
Poik." House of Representatives traded barbs posrponemenl of rhe barangay and
"Hindi naman nagalaw lang National after Lacson claimed that the latter Sangguniang I(abaraan elec r ion s;
.txpendirure Program7. t ndlr defini- had planned to grant P70O million the Magna Carta for Barangays; the
tion-of pork kasi, kung NEP ,yan, arg to as much as P1.5 billion to each of National Land Use bill; the creation
implication niyan o assumption, na-vet its members under the 2020 rrational of departmeflts for Overseas Filipino
properly ).rn ng mga ahensya... So, budget. Workers, disastet resilience, and ri,ater
kung nakapaloob:a NEP'yan hindi na- Bur Ca) erano insisLed rhar their ap- re\ources lhe 6re protection mod-
tin pwede sabihing pork dahil dumaan proved budget bilJ has no pork barrel ernization plogram; the new Salary
sa pagve-ver a1lhough may mga napan allocation conffary to Lacson,s claim Standardization Larv; the new veision
5ln nga kanx kung saan gagamido iro? and that or y P9.5 billion institutional
(fhey did not touch or realign the NEp
of tle measure ouLlining rhe disposal
anyrlal. Under Lhe deFnidon of pork.
amendmenrs $ ere dil ided amongvari of rhe coconur ler.l funds: and the
ous government agencies. mandatory implementation of Reserve
il f)ese are in *re N EP. r-he assump
Officers' Ttaining Corps ptogram in
oon ls drat lhc<e underuenr vening b1 EXTEND 2019 MOOE
' *re linance senior high school.
officials... If the fundJare Accotding to Romualdez, other
included irt the NEP, we cannot call The House of Representatives will economic bills that needed swift actiotr
them pork. We are just puzzled vhere resume session today to work on the from rhe House indude measures deal-
these furds will be used)," Lacson said. passage of the measufe extending un- ing widr the Real Property Valuation
Lacson said that so far, he has not dl December Jl- 2020 rie validity of and Assessment svstem, amendments
seen anythiog irregular in tl]e GAB as rhe 2019 budger for maintenance and ro rhe Public Servicc {cr amendment
he lauded the current House leadership other opetating expenses (MOOE) a measure taising the Motor VehiclJ
as "the most behaved" he has seen in and capital ouday (CO) and another Road [ .ers Tax. as wcll as rJre pro-
relation to the apptoval of the national bilJ postporung rhe M ay 2020 barangay posals -o create the new governmenr
budget. and Sangguniang Kabataan elecrions. departments.
"In fairness to the present House House majority leader Martin Ro- Romualdez said t}re House aims to
leadership, ito na '1-ung pinaka-most mualdez said the House of Represen, pass before the end of rhe year rhe
behaved oa counrerparr namin 1[n
fairness ro rhe Hou.e leaderslup. *ris rs
tatives will hit the ground rufining to biJJ crearirg rhe Deparrmenr of \fiarer Fpodr
expedite the zpproval on *ritd and linal Resources. Lhe Deparrmenr of Filipino
already Lhe mosr behared T hare seen7,'
he .aid. addrng r-har rhe only budgetarl
reading of the rwo prioriry measures in Overseas. and d-te Department of Di- PAGf
dre plenary saster Resilience. - Wzli WnfullVigilia (4'

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