BAYAN MUNA: BUDGET ERRATA UNDERMINED CONGRESS
Group bares summary of budget errata
Bayan Muna Reps .Neri Colmenares and Carlos Zarate today hit the budget errata submitted by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).
“We have just received a copy of the 269 page errata of the 2015 national budget and it is as we feared, the DBM undermined the power of Congress by passing errata that have never been deliberated upon in the committee or plenary level. We have never deliberated on such items as the P423 billion fund for the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), the P8 billion contingent fund for the Bangsamoro or the P3.281 billion for the APEC or even the P1.6 billion for the Department of Finance-Bureau of Customs as with other items,” said Rep. Colmenares.
Rep.Zarate for his part added that “this is a whole new budget and if they do not subject this to deliberations based on our rules then we may be forced to go to the Supreme Court. The court should prohibit this practice so that the people’s coffers would not be raided by unscrupulous politicians,”
“Billions of pesos are lost in an irregular budget process like this. Hindi ito ang nais ng mamamayan lalo na’t itinatago sa publiko. Sana ay tulungan tayo ng taumbayan para lalo pang bantayan ang pera ng bayan dahil pondo ng publiko ang nakukurakot dito, sa ganitong kalakaran kasama ng pag-redefine nila sa ‘savings’ na nag-iinstitusyunalisa ng DAP sa budget ay mapipilitan kaming pumunta sa Supreme Court,” ended Rep.Colmenares
BAYAN MUNA: BUDGET ERRATA UNDERMINED CONGRESS
Group bares summary of budget errata
Bayan Muna Reps .Neri Colmenares and Carlos Zarate today hit the budget errata submitted by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).
“We have just received a copy of the 269 page errata of the 2015 national budget and it is as we feared, the DBM undermined the power of Congress by passing errata that have never been deliberated upon in the committee or plenary level. We have never deliberated on such items as the P423 billion fund for the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), the P8 billion contingent fund for the Bangsamoro or the P3.281 billion for the APEC or even the P1.6 billion for the Department of Finance-Bureau of Customs as with other items,” said Rep. Colmenares.
Rep.Zarate for his part added that “this is a whole new budget and if they do not subject this to deliberations based on our rules then we may be forced to go to the Supreme Court. The court should prohibit this practice so that the people’s coffers would not be raided by unscrupulous politicians,”
“Billions of pesos are lost in an irregular budget process like this. Hindi ito ang nais ng mamamayan lalo na’t itinatago sa publiko. Sana ay tulungan tayo ng taumbayan para lalo pang bantayan ang pera ng bayan dahil pondo ng publiko ang nakukurakot dito, sa ganitong kalakaran kasama ng pag-redefine nila sa ‘savings’ na nag-iinstitusyunalisa ng DAP sa budget ay mapipilitan kaming pumunta sa Supreme Court,” ended Rep.Colmenares
BAYAN MUNA: BUDGET ERRATA UNDERMINED CONGRESS
Group bares summary of budget errata
Bayan Muna Reps .Neri Colmenares and Carlos Zarate today hit the budget errata submitted by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).
“We have just received a copy of the 269 page errata of the 2015 national budget and it is as we feared, the DBM undermined the power of Congress by passing errata that have never been deliberated upon in the committee or plenary level. We have never deliberated on such items as the P423 billion fund for the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), the P8 billion contingent fund for the Bangsamoro or the P3.281 billion for the APEC or even the P1.6 billion for the Department of Finance-Bureau of Customs as with other items,” said Rep. Colmenares.
Rep.Zarate for his part added that “this is a whole new budget and if they do not subject this to deliberations based on our rules then we may be forced to go to the Supreme Court. The court should prohibit this practice so that the people’s coffers would not be raided by unscrupulous politicians,”
“Billions of pesos are lost in an irregular budget process like this. Hindi ito ang nais ng mamamayan lalo na’t itinatago sa publiko. Sana ay tulungan tayo ng taumbayan para lalo pang bantayan ang pera ng bayan dahil pondo ng publiko ang nakukurakot dito, sa ganitong kalakaran kasama ng pag-redefine nila sa ‘savings’ na nag-iinstitusyunalisa ng DAP sa budget ay mapipilitan kaming pumunta sa Supreme Court,” ended Rep.Colmenares