00:00Let me begin by asking you, in executing all these flood control projects, did you ever, either your district engineers or regional district offices, ever coordinated with the River Basin Control Office?
00:26Yes, Mr. Chairman. Let me explain it a little bit.
00:34The answer is, the question is answerable by your, yes or no.
00:38There is a different...
00:39Have you ever coordinated with this obscure office called River Basin Control Office?
00:46I will explain to you why I am asking this.
00:49It has a very, very significant relation to the subject matter of today's inquiry.
00:55Yes, Mr. Chairman.
00:55This River Basin Control Office was created by Executive Order 510.
01:02If you read this in Section 2, Paragraph B of this Executive Order, this is the mandate of this small office, which is attached to the DNR.
01:22Together with the Department of Public Works and Highways and the National Disaster Coordinating Council,
01:29develop a national master plan for flood control by integrating the various existing river basins and developing additional plan for components as needed.
01:42Let's think of it.
01:43Let's think of it.
01:44Let's think of it.
01:45Let's think of it.
01:46That's why I said to you, I know, that even 100 river basins are saying to us, until and unless they are integrated with one another, which is the mandate of this office,
01:56where is it?
01:57Why is it?
01:58Why is it?
01:59Why is it?
02:00Why is it?
02:01Why is it?
02:02Why is it?
02:03Why is it?
02:04Why is it?
02:05Why is it the mandate that we have the right to know?
02:06Why is it why is it?
02:07Why is it that we have the mandate?
02:08Why is it that we know now that we have no co-coordinate and the regulator?
02:09Why is it?
02:10Why is it that we have the right to know?
02:11Why is it why we have the right to know?
02:14If you have no co-coordinate, you are not the regulator.
02:21There is another Executive Order No. 816, saying, referring again to the River Basin Control Office.
02:33Whereas, the integration and harmonization of various government mandates and resources, in the provision of safe and clean water supply and effective flood control management for the entire country is emphasized in the medium-term development plan.
02:54Ang laki pala ng mandato nitong opisina ito.
03:00Eh bakit po, Mr. Director General, did we invite the representative from this office?
03:11Kung baga, yung palang pinaka-susi ng lahat ng ito.
03:17Gawa na kayo ng gawa ng project, DPWH.
03:20DBM, bigay na kayo ng, bigay na ang pundo.
03:26Pero yung opisina na mayroong pananagutan na pag-i-integrate,
03:35ikonekta lahat ng inyong ginagawang flood control, natutulog pala, hindi pala nyo kinukonsultan, hindi pala kayo magkakakilala.
03:44So talaga pong walang mangyayari sa lahat ng project.
03:47Dito po, matibay na po ang kawalan po ninyo ng coordination dito.
03:53Bakit po nagkaganon, Secretary?
03:55Why is it that we have already seen, as of today, there is no semblance of coordination with this office?
04:05Why?
04:09Unfortunately, Your Honor, I think this is one of the challenges that we have to face.
04:15I'm not about to ask you about the challenges.
04:18We have...
04:18Yeah, the coordination.
04:20We have challenges.
04:21The coordination seems to be not really in the right one, Mr.
04:26I admit, Mr. Chairman, that we have not had any significant coordination at this point in time.
04:35There was no coordination at all.
04:36We started from the wrong foot.
04:39Kaya po pala ganito ang nangyayari.
04:41In the next hearing, we would like to know from this office,
04:45Bakit po, sa kabila ng lahat na ito pala ang kanyang pinakamandato,
04:50hindi niya nakuwang i-coordinate sa DPWA, sa DBM,
04:53and all agencies na may kinalaman para solusyonan ang pagbahasa bansang ito,
05:00isiying nawawala sa in the entire question.
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