Jardaleza:
If in case of realignment, legislator will again go to committee, then House/Senate speaker, then forwarded DBM.
Jardaleza:
How do you implement the 1994 PDAF? Unless you recommend a legislator to recommend post-GAA.
SolGen Jardaleza:
Corruption has been committed. Where lies the remedy? Does it lie in this honorable court or does it lie in the political branches?
SolGen Jardaleza:
The House has abolished PDAF, and that is a strong response.
Just to recap: Being interpellated now is Solicitor General Francis Jardaleza representing the government side in the defense of the "pork barrel" or Priority Development Assistance Fund.
Jardeleza's line of argument now:
Can problems be solved through the judiciary or through political solutions?
Jardaleza now explaining the PDAF reform in Congress:
Funds will now go to implementing agencies along, and not to NGOs.
Jardaleza:
Malampaya funds under Aquino administration were only used for energy-related projects.
DBM representative Atty. Rowena Candice Ruiz called to the podium to give a walkthrough of budgetary process.
DBM counsel Ruiz:
There are not many releases requested by the implementing agency without concurrence of individual lawmakers.