Realignment of Palace pork barrel in the works - Malaya 08.30.2006
BY REGINA BENGCO
BUDGET Secretary Rolando Andaya Jr. yesterday said the Senate and Malacañang are working on the restoration of P31 billion in alleged Palace pork in the proposed P1 trillion budget by realigning the funds to line agencies.
He said Senate finance committee chair Manuel Villar is open to the realignment of the funds into the budgets of the health department and to state colleges and universities.
He said the realignment could be made during bicameral conference committee deliberations.
He said the P5 billion Kilos Asenso Support Fund and the P3.69 billion Kalayaan Barangay Program Fund are not pork barrel.
He said the Kilos Asenso Support Fund, which was conceptualized by the National Economic and Development Authority, seeks to create jobs, livelihood, and infrastructure.
He said the Kalayaan Barangay Fund involves the construction of roads, schools, water systems, electric lines and medical clinics in around 600 barangays.
The Kalayaan Barangay and Kilos Asenso funds were scrapped by the Senate even as it approved P77.8 billion in lump-sum appropriations tucked in the proposed budget.
The Senate likewise junked the Compensation Adjustment Fund worth P13.1 billion, which senators said is already contained in a proposed supplemental budget.
Most of the lump-sum items remained intact with only two items suffering cuts. These were the Department of Education-School Building Program, which suffered a P1 billion cut to P2 billion and the Pension and Gratuity Fund which suffered a cut of P9 billion to P43 billion.
The lump-sump items without cuts were: Calamity Fund, P7 billion; Contingent Fund, P8 billion; E-Government Fund, P1 billion; International Commitments Fund, P1.9 billion; and, Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund, 8.776 billion; Internal Revenue Allotment, P166.466 billion; Municipal Development Fund, P105.4 million; Barangay Officials Death Benefits Fund, P37 million; Metropolitan Development Authority, P1.092 billion; Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission, P450 million; and, Premium Subsidy for Indigents under the National Health Insurance, P2.9 billion. – With Dennis Gadil
BUDGET Secretary Rolando Andaya Jr. yesterday said the Senate and Malacañang are working on the restoration of P31 billion in alleged Palace pork in the proposed P1 trillion budget by realigning the funds to line agencies.
He said Senate finance committee chair Manuel Villar is open to the realignment of the funds into the budgets of the health department and to state colleges and universities.
He said the realignment could be made during bicameral conference committee deliberations.
He said the P5 billion Kilos Asenso Support Fund and the P3.69 billion Kalayaan Barangay Program Fund are not pork barrel.
He said the Kilos Asenso Support Fund, which was conceptualized by the National Economic and Development Authority, seeks to create jobs, livelihood, and infrastructure.
He said the Kalayaan Barangay Fund involves the construction of roads, schools, water systems, electric lines and medical clinics in around 600 barangays.
The Kalayaan Barangay and Kilos Asenso funds were scrapped by the Senate even as it approved P77.8 billion in lump-sum appropriations tucked in the proposed budget.
The Senate likewise junked the Compensation Adjustment Fund worth P13.1 billion, which senators said is already contained in a proposed supplemental budget.
Most of the lump-sum items remained intact with only two items suffering cuts. These were the Department of Education-School Building Program, which suffered a P1 billion cut to P2 billion and the Pension and Gratuity Fund which suffered a cut of P9 billion to P43 billion.
The lump-sump items without cuts were: Calamity Fund, P7 billion; Contingent Fund, P8 billion; E-Government Fund, P1 billion; International Commitments Fund, P1.9 billion; and, Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund, 8.776 billion; Internal Revenue Allotment, P166.466 billion; Municipal Development Fund, P105.4 million; Barangay Officials Death Benefits Fund, P37 million; Metropolitan Development Authority, P1.092 billion; Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission, P450 million; and, Premium Subsidy for Indigents under the National Health Insurance, P2.9 billion. – With Dennis Gadil
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