00:00The Office of the Vice President passed a motion to remove a congressman from the office of the Vice President.
00:08The committee explained to the camera that the vice president is a no-show.
00:12The heated discussion of the audience was interrupted by Marisol Abdurrahman.
00:17Why would the members answer that?
00:28We don't have the authority to speak.
00:32Vice President Sara Duterte was absent from the continuation of the deliberations in the camera
00:38in the budget of the Office of the Vice President.
00:40But she was removed earlier by a party-less representative.
00:44You may not like the person. You may not like his presence here.
00:48But you have to respect the office of the vice president.
00:51The answer of the vice president is clear.
00:54Some congressmen were absent from the budget of the OVP.
00:57In particular, the confidential funds of the OVP in 2022.
01:00Marcoleta asked, where will the tradition of giving the OVP to the court of appeal be placed
01:05when it comes to the immediate approval of the budget?
01:09There should be no more questions.
01:11But what happened is a barrage of questions.
01:13That's why I'm asking, why did we do that earlier?
01:17Are we not already respecting a tradition?
01:21The audience was even heated.
01:24Why is it so heated?
01:26Aren't we supposed to listen to you?
01:28We are also members.
01:30It's the same.
01:32And when the hearing continued,
01:34We're not tradition.
01:36Representative Dante Marcoleta motioned
01:39to stop the budget hearing and pass the OVP budget.
01:42But the motion was lost.
01:44The head of the agency must be present.
01:47She is actually insulting the second institution that should scrutinize the budget.
01:53Aside from the absence of the vice president,
01:55no OVP staff attended the hearing.
01:58Before the hearing started,
02:00Vice President Duterte sent a letter this morning to House Speaker Martin Romualdez
02:05to say that he is asking the House Appropriations Committee to pass their budget.
02:10Bratinella, Bratinella to the max.
02:14She doesn't want to be asked.
02:16She avoids being asked.
02:18You didn't ask her.
02:20There's Bratinella, whatever.
02:22That is disrespect to the office of the president, vice president.
02:25What did you ask her?
02:28These questions never happened before.
02:31COA and Budget Departments responded to the questions of the congressmen
02:35including the 53 million pesos spent on the annual rent and use of the 12 satellite offices
02:42that were built by the OVP in 2023.
02:45I think the rent is a bit high.
02:49This location is like a campaign office.
02:56Because it's a place where we can check the votes.
03:01Also, the OVP's relief goods were not distributed
03:07and the unliquidated funds were 65 million pesos.
03:10Until when are they allowed to submit the liquidation of this distribution of welfare goods?
03:16It's not submitted within the time given with the OVP.
03:20We will address it or issue a notice of suspension.
03:24The notice of disallowance was asked by COA to the OVP.
03:28There is no guilt yet.
03:30Until and unless you are able to receive the reply, the answer,
03:36and the explanation of the office of the vice president.
03:40That is correct.
03:41Have you received a copy?
03:45Of the reply?
03:46Yes.
03:47We have not yet replied.
03:50In the end, the termination of the OVP's budget hearing in 2025 was deferred.
03:56We continue to get the attention of Vice President Duterte
03:59not on the issues that are being discussed with him.
04:02Representative Zia Adjong hopes that they will be able to talk about the visa
04:07before discussing the budget of the OVP in 2025.
04:12For GMA Integrated News, Marisol Abdurrahman.
04:17For 24 Hours.
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