MANILA, Philippines – Senator Nancy Binay has expressed doubts that the special audit of public spending on COVID-19, requested through her colleagues, may be completed before Congress begins deliberating on the 2021 national budget.
(I think it is mandatory to conduct an audit, but the solution states that the findings of the special audit must be completed before discussing the budget).
(I’m realistic, I don’t think the COA will complete its Bayanihan-1 budget audit before you start planning the budget.)
Through a Senate resolution, seven senators in the past suggested that the COA conduct a special review of all government expenses similar to its reaction to COVID-19 under the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act.
According to the Bayanihan Act, which had already expired in June, the government had been legal to temporarily download products, facilities and utilities and was considered mandatory for the reaction to COVID-19 without the required tendering procedure as explained in the Government Procurement Reform Act.
The solution also asked the COA to provide its findings before Congress considers the draft national budget 2021.
“We are making plans for large allocations to address the health, economic and social effects of COVID-19. It is critical that there are audit results for consulting legislators in our training of the strength of the inventory market,” said Senator Risa Hontiveros, the resolution’s lead proponent, said earlier.
Although Binay is not one of the signatories to the resolution, however, he presses the desire for a special audit of public spending similar to the pandemic.
(Me and there’s a need. We know that there are many complaints about how the budget was distributed, so it is actually mandatory that this be audited, whether a special or normal audit).
Senator Sonny Angara, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and one of the seven lawmakers who supported the resolution, said a special audit was needed to ensure that the public budget was “spent responsibly.”
“Di naman instant dapat rin naman yung results, we do not ask: “Tomorrow, give us the special audit”. We ask the COA to do a special audit, which is a little more detailed than its normal audit, because many officials have been given discretion,” Angara said in a separate television interview.
(We are saying that the effects will be presented to us immediately, we are asking: tomorrow, give us the special audit).
“When there is discretion, there is a lot of responsibility. This can simply lead to corruption. We’re not saying corruption, but we just need other people to be on guard when they spend, they don’t overestimate things,” he added. Added.
Malacca-ang, for its part, welcomed the proposal for a special audit of coVID-19 reaction costs of the Duterte administration, had nothing to hide.
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque also said he would report on spending on his efforts to combat the pandemic earlier next week.
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