HARDLY ON SAME PAGE Questions relating to a storybook written by Vice President Sara Duterte result in a verbal tussle between her and Sen. Risa Hontiveros throughout the finances listening to on Aug. 20, 2024. Issues bought testy after Duterte refused to straight reply why P10 million have to be spent to distribute “Isang Kaibigan” (A Pal), its cowl and the creator’s web page proven within the insets. SENATE SOCIAL MEDIA UNIT/CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday stated she desires to realign the finances for the “duplicating” objects within the Workplace of the Vice President’s (OVP) proposed funding for 2025, together with the “improper” P10-million allocation for the distribution of Vice President Sara Duterte’s kids’s e book.
“On the correct time, sa interval of amendments, magpo-propose po ako ng modification dun sa objects ng program sa OVP na katulad lamang doon sa mga programa ng mga line companies natin, together with Division of Social Welfare and Improvement (DSWD), Division of Well being (DOH), and Division of Labor and Employment (DOLE),” Hontiveros stated on the Kapihan sa Senado discussion board.
(On the correct time, within the interval of amendments, I’ll suggest an modification to objects below the OVP’s applications which are just like the applications of different line companies, together with the DSWD, DOH, and DOLE.)
Hontiveros would additionally search amendments to the controversial allocation for the distribution of Duterte’s kids’s e book “Isang Kaibigan.”
“Yung merchandise ng P10 million para sa pagmumudmod ng mga kopya ng Isang Kaibigan ay papasukan ko rin po ng modification. Yun naman ang objective ng interpellation sa listening to eh, para i-explore,” she advised reporters.
(I’d additionally insert amendments to the P10-million merchandise that may be used to distribute copies of Isang Kaibigan. That’s the aim of interpellation in a listening to, to discover.)
The opposition senator identified the nation’s “tight fiscal house,” saying that departments at all times have inadequate funding, particularly for social safety applications, these associated to medical and burial providers, catastrophe resilience, work and occupation, and different objects.
Hontiveros stated the P10-million finances for the distribution of copies of Duterte’s kids’s e book is “improper” in precept.
“Request yan. Dahil kung meron kang sinulat na libro, kung ikaw ang sumulat niyan, hindi dapat gamitan ng authorities funds at taxpayers cash para ipamudmod,” she added.
(That’s a request. As a result of in the event you wrote a e book, in case you are the one who wrote it, authorities funds and taxpayers’ cash shouldn’t be used to distribute it.)
Hontiveros and Duterte had a heated change throughout the Senate panel on finance’s deliberation on the OVP’s proposed finances for 2025.
Throughout the listening to on Tuesday, Duterte accused Hontiveros of politicizing the federal government funds after the lawmaker raised a number of queries relating to the Vice President’s proposed funding, together with the allocation for Duterte’s kids’s e book.
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