00:00On the opening of the session, House Speaker Martin Romualdez cut the camera to his head
00:05with the investigations that will be released to the camera in the coming weeks.
00:10This includes the issue of smuggling and hoarding that is affecting farmers and inflation.
00:16The PhilHealth's underutilized fund is also being used.
00:22The billion-pison value of the expired medicine and the confidential funds is also being used.
00:28The price of tomatoes is slowly going down.
00:32According to Agriculture Department Spokesperson Arnaldo Mesa,
00:37although the price of tomatoes is still elevated,
00:40its price is lower than the previous day.
00:44It is possible that the price of tomatoes will continue to go down in the last part of January or in the first part of February,
00:53where the production of tomatoes will also go down.
00:57The DA said that because of the following storms in the last quarter of 2024,
01:04there was a shortage in the production of tomatoes.
