{ "hearing": { "id": 36, "title": "Senate Committee on Finance: Office of the Ombudsman - September 3, 2026", "hearing_date": "2026-09-03", "official_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvsMvLj88aw" }, "revision_id": 5365, "revision_number": 16, "notice": "AI-assisted working draft. AI can make errors. Always check quotations, names, rulings, and other consequential details against the official video.", "segments": [ { "stable_id": "asr-000001", "start_seconds": 1187.63, "end_seconds": 1193.65, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "briefing on the fiscal year 2027 proposed expenditure program of the office of the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000002", "start_seconds": 1193.65, "end_seconds": 1198.31, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Ombudsman is hereby called to order. The Chair would like to acknowledge the presence of senators" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000003", "start_seconds": 1198.31, "end_seconds": 1204.99, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "our Senate President Pro Tempore, Senator Vicente Tito Sotto, and of course Senator" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000004", "start_seconds": 1204.99, "end_seconds": 1211.03, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Panfilo Lacson. At this juncture, the Chair recognizes the committee secretary" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000005", "start_seconds": 1211.03, "end_seconds": 1214.19, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "to acknowledge our esteemed resource persons" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000005-split-2", "start_seconds": 1214.19, "end_seconds": 1216.01, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "thank you mr chair good morning good morning" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000006", "start_seconds": 1216.01, "end_seconds": 1222.03, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "to senator soto and laxon for the briefing on the proposed fy 2027 budget of the office of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000007", "start_seconds": 1222.03, "end_seconds": 1226.77, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "the ombudsman we would like to acknowledge our resource persons we have the ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000008", "start_seconds": 1226.77, "end_seconds": 1234.19, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "ombudsman jesus crispine remolia deputy ombudsman jose embalmeo jr special prosecutor marie floor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000009", "start_seconds": 1234.19, "end_seconds": 1240.91, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "punzalan castillo assistant ombudsman adoration agdaba agbada sorry assistant ombudsman jose" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000010", "start_seconds": 1240.91, "end_seconds": 1245.75, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "dominic clavano the fourth assistant ombudsman luis gonzaga bonoan jr" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000011", "start_seconds": 1245.75, "end_seconds": 1252.27, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "assistant ombudsman margaret raiza andaman assistant ombudsman aliceo dc cruz attorney" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000012", "start_seconds": 1252.27, "end_seconds": 1258.47, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "alan canares and director christopher liam we have also invited resource persons from the dbm and koa" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000013", "start_seconds": 1258.47, "end_seconds": 1265.59, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "from dbm we have miss merica joana de la pena miss maria amor atutubo and mr ethan mccray morales" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000014", "start_seconds": 1265.59, "end_seconds": 1271.09, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "from koa we have miss maria carmela marcos and attorney maria kathleen vila thank you mr chair" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000015", "start_seconds": 1271.09, "end_seconds": 1272.53, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "thank you" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000016", "start_seconds": 1275.75, "end_seconds": 1288.35, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "magandang maga po sa lahat sa ating lahat our goal for the 2027 budget is clear to address the basic needs of our people restore the trust in the budget process and ultimately restore trust in government" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000017", "start_seconds": 1288.35, "end_seconds": 1295.33, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "at sa layuning ito layuning ito mahalagang katuwang natin ang office of the ombudsman ang ating pong tanod bayan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000018", "start_seconds": 1295.33, "end_seconds": 1301.65, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "lalo na ngayon sa gitna ng aligasyon ng anomalya sa flood control project sa ombudsman umaasa" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000019", "start_seconds": 1301.65, "end_seconds": 1305.47, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "ang publiko para sa mabilis patas at independent" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000020", "start_seconds": 1305.75, "end_seconds": 1307.87, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "na imbisigasyon at pananagutan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000021", "start_seconds": 1307.87, "end_seconds": 1311.67, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "kung seryoso tayo sa paglaban sa korasyon dapat well equipped din" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000022", "start_seconds": 1311.67, "end_seconds": 1313.15, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "ang ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000023", "start_seconds": 1313.15, "end_seconds": 1316.07, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "kailangan nito magkaroon ng sapat na budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000024", "start_seconds": 1316.07, "end_seconds": 1321.21, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "manpower, kagamitan at teknolohiya upang magampanan ng maayos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000025", "start_seconds": 1321.21, "end_seconds": 1325.03, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "ang mandato nito bilang pangunahing bantay ng mamamayan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000026", "start_seconds": 1325.03, "end_seconds": 1328.49, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "laban sa katiwalian at pang-aabuso sa pamalan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000027", "start_seconds": 1328.49, "end_seconds": 1333.73, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "as we scrutinize the proposed 2027 budget of the office of the ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000028", "start_seconds": 1333.73, "end_seconds": 1337.71, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "hindi lamang ang halaga ng budget ang gusto nating tignan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000029", "start_seconds": 1337.71, "end_seconds": 1339.67, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "kundi kung ano ang magagawa nito" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000030", "start_seconds": 1339.67, "end_seconds": 1345.01, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "paano nito mapapabilis ang imbisigasyon at pagre-resolba ng mga kaso" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000031", "start_seconds": 1345.01, "end_seconds": 1348.6100000000001, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "paano nito mapapalakas ang monitoring and enforcement" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000032", "start_seconds": 1348.6100000000001, "end_seconds": 1355.85, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "at sapat ba ang inyong resources upang mapanagot ang maabuso sa kapangyarihan at kaban ng bayan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000033", "start_seconds": 1355.85, "end_seconds": 1361.01, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "we want to ensure that the ombudsman has the resources it needs to do his job effectively" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000034", "start_seconds": 1361.01, "end_seconds": 1363.33, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "while making sure that every peso translates" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000035", "start_seconds": 1363.73, "end_seconds": 1365.17, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "into stronger accountability" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000036", "start_seconds": 1365.17, "end_seconds": 1367.67, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "faster action and greater public trust" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000037", "start_seconds": 1367.67, "end_seconds": 1368.77, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "maraming salamat po" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000038", "start_seconds": 1368.77, "end_seconds": 1370.55, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "before acknowledging our guests" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000039", "start_seconds": 1370.55, "end_seconds": 1374.45, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "may we ask also our esteemed colleagues to wish their opening remarks" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000040", "start_seconds": 1374.45, "end_seconds": 1377.3899999999999, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "our President Pro Tempore, Senator Vicente Tito Soto" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000041", "start_seconds": 1377.3899999999999, "end_seconds": 1380.97, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "good morning to everyone" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000042", "start_seconds": 1380.97, "end_seconds": 1387.51, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "there are a number of questions that I would like to pose" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000043", "start_seconds": 1387.51, "end_seconds": 1393.27, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "but I'm sure they'll be answered when they give us the proposal" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000044", "start_seconds": 1393.73, "end_seconds": 1394.93, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "for their budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000045", "start_seconds": 1394.93, "end_seconds": 1397.59, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "I'm more interested in finding out" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000046", "start_seconds": 1397.59, "end_seconds": 1401.65, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "whatever happened to the proposal that we create" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000047", "start_seconds": 1401.65, "end_seconds": 1404.45, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "that they create a judicial marshal bureau" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000048", "start_seconds": 1404.45, "end_seconds": 1407.95, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "so I'd like to know later on" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000049", "start_seconds": 1407.95, "end_seconds": 1409.45, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "how much budget is needed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000050", "start_seconds": 1409.45, "end_seconds": 1412.99, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "and what is the bill or law that is necessary" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000051", "start_seconds": 1412.99, "end_seconds": 1415.49, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "or an amendment to the law of the ombudsman later" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000052", "start_seconds": 1415.49, "end_seconds": 1417.23, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "that's about it" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000053", "start_seconds": 1417.23, "end_seconds": 1419.95, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "otherwise I'm here to listen Mr. Chairman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000054", "start_seconds": 1419.95, "end_seconds": 1422.31, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "thank you our Senate President Pro Tempore" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000055", "start_seconds": 1422.31, "end_seconds": 1423.55, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Next is Senator Panfilo Lacson." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000056", "start_seconds": 1423.73, "end_seconds": 1427.13, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "nothing from this representation your honor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000057", "start_seconds": 1427.13, "end_seconds": 1428.75, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "okay thank you" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000058", "start_seconds": 1428.75, "end_seconds": 1430.55, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "for our esteemed colleagues" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000059", "start_seconds": 1430.55, "end_seconds": 1432.25, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "may we now call our ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000060", "start_seconds": 1432.25, "end_seconds": 1434.23, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Jesus Crispin Boying Remulla" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000061", "start_seconds": 1434.23, "end_seconds": 1435.77, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "to deliver his opening statement" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000062", "start_seconds": 1435.77, "end_seconds": 1438.63, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and likewise to present the 2027" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000063", "start_seconds": 1438.63, "end_seconds": 1441.4099999999999, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "proposed expenditure program" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000064", "start_seconds": 1441.4099999999999, "end_seconds": 1443.3899999999999, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "of the office of the ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000065", "start_seconds": 1443.3899999999999, "end_seconds": 1445.81, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "thank you Mr. Chairman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000066", "start_seconds": 1445.81, "end_seconds": 1447.51, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "thank you members of the committee" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000067", "start_seconds": 1447.51, "end_seconds": 1449.79, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "for the time given to us" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000068", "start_seconds": 1449.79, "end_seconds": 1452.19, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "to be able to shed light on the budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000069", "start_seconds": 1452.19, "end_seconds": 1453.03, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "that we may need" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000070", "start_seconds": 1453.03, "end_seconds": 1453.71, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "or that we need to have" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000071", "start_seconds": 1453.73, "end_seconds": 1455.81, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "for the next fiscal year" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000072", "start_seconds": 1455.81, "end_seconds": 1459.19, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and this job is tough" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000073", "start_seconds": 1459.19, "end_seconds": 1460.8899999999999, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "it's not easy" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000074", "start_seconds": 1460.8899999999999, "end_seconds": 1464.35, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "to be able to gather the facts" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000075", "start_seconds": 1464.35, "end_seconds": 1465.67, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "gather the evidence" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000076", "start_seconds": 1465.67, "end_seconds": 1466.4099999999999, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and file the cases" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000077", "start_seconds": 1466.4099999999999, "end_seconds": 1469.1100000000001, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "but we go to work every day" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000078", "start_seconds": 1469.1100000000001, "end_seconds": 1472.6100000000001, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and we get things done every day" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000079", "start_seconds": 1472.6100000000001, "end_seconds": 1474.3899999999999, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "but it's a slow process" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000080", "start_seconds": 1474.3899999999999, "end_seconds": 1476.1100000000001, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "it's a process that entails" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000081", "start_seconds": 1476.1100000000001, "end_seconds": 1478.0700000000002, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "a lot of patience" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000082", "start_seconds": 1478.0700000000002, "end_seconds": 1479.47, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and I hope that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000083", "start_seconds": 1479.47, "end_seconds": 1482.6100000000001, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "sana ay maunawaan po ng mga mamamayan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000084", "start_seconds": 1482.6100000000001, "end_seconds": 1483.03, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "na" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000085", "start_seconds": 1483.03, "end_seconds": 1487.15, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "kinakailangan pong masinop ang aming trabaho" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000086", "start_seconds": 1487.15, "end_seconds": 1489.6100000000001, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "sapagkat ito po ay dadaan pa" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000087", "start_seconds": 1489.6100000000001, "end_seconds": 1491.5900000000001, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "sa ating sistema ng korte," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000088", "start_seconds": 1491.5900000000001, "end_seconds": 1492.71, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "sa sistema ng hustisya natin." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000089", "start_seconds": 1492.71, "end_seconds": 1494.4299999999998, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Ito po ay dadaan pa" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000090", "start_seconds": 1494.4299999999998, "end_seconds": 1495.8899999999999, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "ang aming ginagawa" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000091", "start_seconds": 1495.8899999999999, "end_seconds": 1497.67, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "sa ating mga huwes" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000092", "start_seconds": 1497.67, "end_seconds": 1499.49, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "ng Regional Trial Court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000093", "start_seconds": 1499.49, "end_seconds": 1502.3899999999999, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "at sa mga huwes natin," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000094", "start_seconds": 1502.3899999999999, "end_seconds": 1503.65, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "sa mga justice natin" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000095", "start_seconds": 1503.65, "end_seconds": 1505.1100000000001, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "sa Sandiganbayan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000096", "start_seconds": 1505.1100000000001, "end_seconds": 1508.6100000000001, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Kaya ito ang aming pinag-iingatan," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000097", "start_seconds": 1508.6100000000001, "end_seconds": 1510.03, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "at sa araw-araw" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000098", "start_seconds": 1510.03, "end_seconds": 1511.47, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "na kami po ay pumapasok sa opisina," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000099", "start_seconds": 1511.47, "end_seconds": 1512.19, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "sinisikap po" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000100", "start_seconds": 1512.19, "end_seconds": 1512.9099999999999, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "naming" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000101", "start_seconds": 1512.9099999999999, "end_seconds": 1514.9099999999999, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "pagtibayin ang aming" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000102", "start_seconds": 1514.9099999999999, "end_seconds": 1518.15, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "mga nakikita" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000103", "start_seconds": 1518.15, "end_seconds": 1520.35, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "na dapat pong ayusin" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000104", "start_seconds": 1520.35, "end_seconds": 1522.53, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "sa ating sistema ng hustisya" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000105", "start_seconds": 1522.53, "end_seconds": 1525.99, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "at dito po sa ating mga kasama sa gobyerno." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000106", "start_seconds": 1525.99, "end_seconds": 1529.15, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "At upang magbigay po ng liwanag" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000107", "start_seconds": 1529.15, "end_seconds": 1529.79, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "sa budget namin," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000108", "start_seconds": 1529.79, "end_seconds": 1532.37, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "andito po si Director Christopher Lim" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000109", "start_seconds": 1532.37, "end_seconds": 1535.3899999999999, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "upang ibigay po yung mga detalye" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000110", "start_seconds": 1535.3899999999999, "end_seconds": 1537.05, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "ng aming presentasyon." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000111", "start_seconds": 1537.05, "end_seconds": 1537.5900000000001, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Salamat po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000112", "start_seconds": 1537.5900000000001, "end_seconds": 1539.45, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Director Christopher Lim" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000113", "start_seconds": 1539.45, "end_seconds": 1540.05, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "is recognized" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000114", "start_seconds": 1540.05, "end_seconds": 1542.03, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Good morning Mr. Chair" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000115", "start_seconds": 1542.03, "end_seconds": 1542.75, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "May I have" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000117", "start_seconds": 1542.87, "end_seconds": 1544.0900000000001, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "the honor to present to you" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000118", "start_seconds": 1544.0900000000001, "end_seconds": 1544.71, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "the budget proposal" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000119", "start_seconds": 1544.71, "end_seconds": 1545.35, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Please proceed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000120", "start_seconds": 1545.35, "end_seconds": 1546.3899999999999, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "of the Office of the Ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000121", "start_seconds": 1546.3899999999999, "end_seconds": 1547.6100000000001, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Okay" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000122", "start_seconds": 1547.6100000000001, "end_seconds": 1550.4099999999999, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "So the Office of the Ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000123", "start_seconds": 1550.4099999999999, "end_seconds": 1552.13, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "shall strive to continue" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000124", "start_seconds": 1552.13, "end_seconds": 1553.47, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "the faithful performance" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000125", "start_seconds": 1553.47, "end_seconds": 1555.53, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "of its constitutional mandate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000126", "start_seconds": 1555.53, "end_seconds": 1557.79, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "especially as it relates" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000127", "start_seconds": 1557.79, "end_seconds": 1559.15, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "to the fight against corruption" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000128", "start_seconds": 1559.15, "end_seconds": 1560.73, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "through the following measures" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000129", "start_seconds": 1560.73, "end_seconds": 1563.37, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "finding and or case build-up" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000130", "start_seconds": 1563.37, "end_seconds": 1564.29, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "prosecution" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000131", "start_seconds": 1564.29, "end_seconds": 1566.75, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "administrative adjudication" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000132", "start_seconds": 1566.75, "end_seconds": 1568.0700000000002, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "grab prevention" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000133", "start_seconds": 1568.0700000000002, "end_seconds": 1570.71, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "and auxiliary public assistance services" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000134", "start_seconds": 1570.71, "end_seconds": 1574.7, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "So the recommended budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000135", "start_seconds": 1574.7, "end_seconds": 1578.1399999999999, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "level by the Department of Budget and Management" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000136", "start_seconds": 1578.1399999999999, "end_seconds": 1581.12, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "for the Office of the Ombudsman for 2027" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000137", "start_seconds": 1581.12, "end_seconds": 1584.28, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "is 7.232 billion" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000138", "start_seconds": 1584.28, "end_seconds": 1586.8600000000001, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "including automatic appropriations" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000139", "start_seconds": 1586.8600000000001, "end_seconds": 1588.1599999999999, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "This is in conformity" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000140", "start_seconds": 1588.1599999999999, "end_seconds": 1590.44, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "with the pronouncement of the Constitution" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000141", "start_seconds": 1590.44, "end_seconds": 1591.98, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "and its enabling law" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000142", "start_seconds": 1591.98, "end_seconds": 1594.08, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "RA number 6770" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000143", "start_seconds": 1594.08, "end_seconds": 1595.78, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "on fiscal autonomy" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000144", "start_seconds": 1595.78, "end_seconds": 1598.22, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "that appropriations of the Office of the Ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000145", "start_seconds": 1598.22, "end_seconds": 1600.74, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "may not be reduced below the amount appropriated" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000146", "start_seconds": 1600.74, "end_seconds": 1602.48, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "from the previous years" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000147", "start_seconds": 1602.48, "end_seconds": 1604.54, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "It represents 0.1% of the budget level" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000148", "start_seconds": 1604.54, "end_seconds": 1607.02, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "of the national expenditure program" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000149", "start_seconds": 1607.02, "end_seconds": 1610.12, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "of 7.2 trillion" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000150", "start_seconds": 1610.12, "end_seconds": 1613.6, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "So going on to the details" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000151", "start_seconds": 1613.6, "end_seconds": 1615.58, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "the details of the recommendation" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000152", "start_seconds": 1615.58, "end_seconds": 1617.04, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "with comparative figures" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000153", "start_seconds": 1617.04, "end_seconds": 1618.94, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "for 2026 current budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000154", "start_seconds": 1618.94, "end_seconds": 1621.26, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "and 2027 DBM-NEP" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000155", "start_seconds": 1621.26, "end_seconds": 1623.1399999999999, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "are summarized on the screen" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000156", "start_seconds": 1623.1399999999999, "end_seconds": 1625.98, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "So for personnel services" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000157", "start_seconds": 1625.98, "end_seconds": 1630.3400000000001, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "the amount is 3,760,765,000" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000158", "start_seconds": 1630.3400000000001, "end_seconds": 1632.6, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "representing 52%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000159", "start_seconds": 1632.6, "end_seconds": 1634.54, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "for maintenance and other operating expenses" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000160", "start_seconds": 1634.54, "end_seconds": 1638.8, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "2,444,135,000" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000161", "start_seconds": 1638.8, "end_seconds": 1641.76, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "representing 33.79%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000162", "start_seconds": 1641.76, "end_seconds": 1643.1399999999999, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "and capital outlay" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000163", "start_seconds": 1643.1399999999999, "end_seconds": 1646.42, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "857,100,000" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000164", "start_seconds": 1646.42, "end_seconds": 1649.56, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "representing 11.85%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000165", "start_seconds": 1649.56, "end_seconds": 1654.1599999999999, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "RLIP of 168,332,000" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000166", "start_seconds": 1654.1599999999999, "end_seconds": 1657.08, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "representing 2.33%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000167", "start_seconds": 1657.08, "end_seconds": 1661.02, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "and OMB share in Military Council Fund" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000168", "start_seconds": 1661.02, "end_seconds": 1664.06, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "of 2,602,000" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000169", "start_seconds": 1664.06, "end_seconds": 1666.8200000000002, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "representing 0.04%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000170", "start_seconds": 1666.8200000000002, "end_seconds": 1668.3200000000002, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "for a total of 100%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000171", "start_seconds": 1668.3200000000002, "end_seconds": 1673.74, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Comparative data for 2026 budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000172", "start_seconds": 1673.74, "end_seconds": 1676.9, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "and 2027 DBM-NEP per program" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000173", "start_seconds": 1676.9, "end_seconds": 1679.28, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "including RLIP in 1,000 pesos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000174", "start_seconds": 1679.28, "end_seconds": 1682.28, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "So for general administration and support" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000175", "start_seconds": 1682.28, "end_seconds": 1687.02, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "4,905,983,000" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000176", "start_seconds": 1687.02, "end_seconds": 1690.6, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "representing 67.83%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000177", "start_seconds": 1690.6, "end_seconds": 1692.56, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "For support to operations" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000178", "start_seconds": 1692.56, "end_seconds": 1694.04, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "147,000,000" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000179", "start_seconds": 1694.06, "end_seconds": 1699.02, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "representing 2.04%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000180", "start_seconds": 1699.02, "end_seconds": 1702.1, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "For Anti-Corruption Investigation Program" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000181", "start_seconds": 1702.1, "end_seconds": 1705.8600000000001, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "945,737,000 pesos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000182", "start_seconds": 1705.8600000000001, "end_seconds": 1709.1599999999999, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "representing 13.08%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000183", "start_seconds": 1709.1599999999999, "end_seconds": 1711.6599999999999, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "For Anti-Corruption Enforcement Program" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000184", "start_seconds": 1711.6599999999999, "end_seconds": 1715.3, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "721,168,000 pesos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000185", "start_seconds": 1715.3, "end_seconds": 1718.38, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "representing 9.97%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000186", "start_seconds": 1718.38, "end_seconds": 1720.8200000000002, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "For Ombudsman Public Assistance Program" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000187", "start_seconds": 1720.8200000000002, "end_seconds": 1723.8600000000001, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "290,934,000 pesos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000188", "start_seconds": 1723.8600000000001, "end_seconds": 1727.7, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "representing 4.02%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000189", "start_seconds": 1727.7, "end_seconds": 1730.08, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "For Corruption Prevention Program" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000190", "start_seconds": 1730.08, "end_seconds": 1733.58, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "211,758,000 pesos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000191", "start_seconds": 1733.58, "end_seconds": 1735.98, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "representing 2.93%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000192", "start_seconds": 1735.98, "end_seconds": 1738.2, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "And for locally funded projects" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000193", "start_seconds": 1738.2, "end_seconds": 1740.3200000000002, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "which is the Whistleblower Account Reward" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000194", "start_seconds": 1740.3200000000002, "end_seconds": 1741.62, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "10,000,000 pesos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000195", "start_seconds": 1741.62, "end_seconds": 1743.7, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "representing 0.14%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000196", "start_seconds": 1743.7, "end_seconds": 1749.08, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "So going now to the salient features" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000197", "start_seconds": 1749.08, "end_seconds": 1753.74, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "The requirement for the filling of positions" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000198", "start_seconds": 1753.74, "end_seconds": 1755.62, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "in the amount of 1.662 billion" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000199", "start_seconds": 1755.62, "end_seconds": 1763.8200000000002, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "allocation for pension benefits in the amount of 169.381 million pesos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000200", "start_seconds": 1763.8200000000002, "end_seconds": 1768.3400000000001, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Provisions for Terminal and Retirement Gratuity Benefits" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000201", "start_seconds": 1768.3400000000001, "end_seconds": 1773.3200000000002, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "for mandatory 78,869,000 pesos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000202", "start_seconds": 1773.3200000000002, "end_seconds": 1777.76, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "and for optional 310,758,000 pesos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000203", "start_seconds": 1777.76, "end_seconds": 1783.78, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "for a total recommendation of 389,627,000 pesos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000204", "start_seconds": 1783.78, "end_seconds": 1786.88, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "The recommended minimum rate for the filling of positions" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000205", "start_seconds": 1786.88, "end_seconds": 1789.3400000000001, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "with maintenance and other operating expenses" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000206", "start_seconds": 1789.3400000000001, "end_seconds": 1793.52, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "amounting to 2,446,000,000" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000207", "start_seconds": 1793.52, "end_seconds": 1797.2, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "includes a provision of 51.468 million pesos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000208", "start_seconds": 1797.2, "end_seconds": 1800.6, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "for confidential expenses in support of the office" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000209", "start_seconds": 1800.0, "end_seconds": 1805.44, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "of the ombudsman's constitutionally mandated functions of investigation prosecution and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000210", "start_seconds": 1805.44, "end_seconds": 1810.8, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "graft prevention. Additional provision of 2,602,000 pesos for" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000211", "start_seconds": 1810.8, "end_seconds": 1815.6, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "training to be charged against the office of the ombudsman share from the military council's" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000212", "start_seconds": 1815.6, "end_seconds": 1821.52, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "proceeds fund allocation for the agency's information communications technology requirements" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000213", "start_seconds": 1821.52, "end_seconds": 1834.08, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "moa component of which is 247 million and capital outlay component of which is 250.519 million for" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000214", "start_seconds": 1834.08, "end_seconds": 1842.0, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "a total of 497 million 549 000 pesos this is to support the i.t system infrastructure modern" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000215", "start_seconds": 1842.0, "end_seconds": 1849.04, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "modernization initiatives the construction of a document storage building for omb besides" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000216", "start_seconds": 1849.04, "end_seconds": 1850.88, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "is provided an amount of 11" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000217", "start_seconds": 1851.52, "end_seconds": 1859.04, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "55 million in view of the agency's critical mandate to investigate and prosecute cases" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000218", "start_seconds": 1859.04, "end_seconds": 1866.0, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "involving graph and corruption which requires the secure preservation systematic organization and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000219", "start_seconds": 1866.0, "end_seconds": 1871.6, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "timely retrieval of large volumes of case records evidence files and administrative documents" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000220", "start_seconds": 1872.4, "end_seconds": 1880.16, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "an amount of 95.031 million has been retained for the continued upgrade of depreciated office" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000221", "start_seconds": 1880.16, "end_seconds": 1881.44, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "equipment foreign" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000222", "start_seconds": 1881.52, "end_seconds": 1888.16, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "and pictures an amount of 500 million as funding support for the purchase of omb building under" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000223", "start_seconds": 1888.16, "end_seconds": 1891.6, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "and under lease purchase agreement was likewise recommended" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000224", "start_seconds": 1896.64, "end_seconds": 1904.24, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "going now on the performance of the office for the 2025 and 2026 for its anti-corruption" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000225", "start_seconds": 1904.24, "end_seconds": 1911.36, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "investigation program uh with percentage of completed case built up reports and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000226", "start_seconds": 1911.52, "end_seconds": 1917.2, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "fact-finding investigations and or lifestyle checks resulting in the piling of criminal and or" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000227", "start_seconds": 1917.2, "end_seconds": 1926.64, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "administrative cases the target in 2025 was 10 percent the actual 28.08 percent for 2026 the target" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000228", "start_seconds": 1926.64, "end_seconds": 1935.6, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "was 11 percent the accomplishment as of june was recorded at 41.9 percent for percentage of uh" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000229", "start_seconds": 1936.4, "end_seconds": 1941.04, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "case buildup reports and finding investigation and or lifestyle checks completed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000230", "start_seconds": 1941.52, "end_seconds": 1947.92, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "the target was 21 percent with the actual accomplishment of 55.05 percent" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000231", "start_seconds": 1947.92, "end_seconds": 1956.08, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "for 2026 the target was 22 percent and the accomplishments of june was recorded at 14.33" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000232", "start_seconds": 1957.44, "end_seconds": 1963.44, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "percentage of criminal and for picture cases investigated and resolved the target was 41" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000233", "start_seconds": 1964.4, "end_seconds": 1971.2, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "the accomplishment was 46.31 percent for 2026 the target was 41 percent and the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000234", "start_seconds": 1971.52, "end_seconds": 1979.92, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "accomplishment as of June 30 2026 was recorded at 21.07 percent percentage of criminal and for" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000235", "start_seconds": 1979.92, "end_seconds": 1987.06, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "future cases investigated and resolved within one year period the target was 26 percent the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000236", "start_seconds": 1987.06, "end_seconds": 1993.72, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "actual accomplishment was recorded 46.16 percent and for 2026 target the target was 34 percent" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000237", "start_seconds": 1993.72, "end_seconds": 2002.12, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "with the related accomplishment of 57.88 percent as of June 30 2026 for its anti-corruption" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000238", "start_seconds": 2002.12, "end_seconds": 2008.24, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "enforcement program the percentage of criminal and civil cases tried in court not resulting in" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000239", "start_seconds": 2008.24, "end_seconds": 2015.38, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "an approved demurrer to evidence for 2025 the target was 21 percent the actual was 73.18" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000240", "start_seconds": 2015.38, "end_seconds": 2023.54, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "percent for 2026 25 percent and the accomplishment as of June 30 2026 was recorded at 18.4" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000241", "start_seconds": 2023.72, "end_seconds": 2030.38, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "percent percentage of criminal and civil cases decided by the court resulting in conviction of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000242", "start_seconds": 2030.38, "end_seconds": 2039.02, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "at least one accused the target was 28 percent the actual was uh 50.60 percent and the target" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000243", "start_seconds": 2039.02, "end_seconds": 2046.22, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "for 2026 was 28 percent with the related accomplishments of June of 65.03 percent" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000244", "start_seconds": 2046.22, "end_seconds": 2053.66, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "percentage of administrative cases adjudicated target of 41 percent and accomplishment of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000245", "start_seconds": 2053.66, "end_seconds": 2053.7, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "four" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000246", "start_seconds": 2053.72, "end_seconds": 2061.46, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "46.12 percent for 2026 the target was 41 percent and the accomplishment as of June 30 was recorded" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000247", "start_seconds": 2061.46, "end_seconds": 2069.2, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "at 19.18 percent percentage of administrative cases adjudicated within a one-year period the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000248", "start_seconds": 2069.2, "end_seconds": 2078.26, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "target was 27 percent uh the rated accomplishment for 2025 was 49.13 percent and the target for 2026" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000249", "start_seconds": 2078.26, "end_seconds": 2083.66, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "was recorded 34 and the related accomplishments of June of 69.59" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000250", "start_seconds": 2083.66, "end_seconds": 2091.2799999999997, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "percent for ombudsman public assistance program percentage of frontline service feedback with the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000251", "start_seconds": 2091.2799999999997, "end_seconds": 2099.74, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "rating of at least very satisfactory the target was 81 percent and the actual was 98.62 percent for" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000252", "start_seconds": 2099.74, "end_seconds": 2109.1, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "2026 82 percent and the accomplishment as of June 30 98.37 percent percentage of requests for" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000253", "start_seconds": 2109.1, "end_seconds": 2113.12, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "assistance and grievances resolved or acted upon within the prescribed time" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000254", "start_seconds": 2113.66, "end_seconds": 2122.96, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "the target was 78 percent uh the actual was 94.25 percent the target for 2026 was 80 percent and the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000255", "start_seconds": 2122.96, "end_seconds": 2129.74, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "accomplishment as of June 30 was recorded at 92.53 percent for corruption prevention program" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000256", "start_seconds": 2129.74, "end_seconds": 2137.66, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "percentage of integrity promotion program beneficiaries the target was 81 percent the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000257", "start_seconds": 2137.66, "end_seconds": 2143.6, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "actual accomplishment was 97.65 percent for 2026 85 percent" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000258", "start_seconds": 2143.66, "end_seconds": 2152.54, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "the accomplishment as of June was already recorded at 98.39 percent uh for number of integrity and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000259", "start_seconds": 2152.54, "end_seconds": 2156.5, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "anti-corruption advocates capacitated and mobilized this is an old indicator" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000260", "start_seconds": 2157.94, "end_seconds": 2167.48, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "6000 target the actual accomplishment was 14.096 the percentage of integrity and anti-corruption" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000261", "start_seconds": 2167.48, "end_seconds": 2173.3, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "advocates trained a new indicator the target for 2026 was 85 percent with" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000262", "start_seconds": 2173.66, "end_seconds": 2183.14, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "an accomplishment as of June 30 of 352.29 percent for our utilization rate on major programs projects" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000263", "start_seconds": 2184.34, "end_seconds": 2196.2799999999997, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "as of first semester the obligation utilization rate was recorded at 45.14 percent the disbursement" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000264", "start_seconds": 2196.2799999999997, "end_seconds": 2201.2, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "utilization rate upon the other hand it was recorded at 96.44 percent" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000265", "start_seconds": 2207.24, "end_seconds": 2214.74, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "so comparative budget allocation and utilization rate for fiscal years 2021 to 2025. so for" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000266", "start_seconds": 2215.2799999999997, "end_seconds": 2224.94, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "2021 the obligation utilization rate was 85 89.5 percent for 2022 90.19 percent" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000267", "start_seconds": 2224.94, "end_seconds": 2237.02, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "for 2023 90.31 percent for 2024 94.8 percent for 2025 94.31 percent or an average of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000268", "start_seconds": 2237.24, "end_seconds": 2262.1, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "For its disbursement utilization rate, for 2021, 96.94%, for 2022, 97.49%, for 2023, 98%, for 2024, 95.98%, for 2025, 92.54, for an average of 96.19%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000269", "start_seconds": 2262.1, "end_seconds": 2275.82, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "For the summary of COA findings and recommendation, we have 22 total, 16 of which were implemented, 6 were partially implemented, and 0 not yet implemented." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000270", "start_seconds": 2276.12, "end_seconds": 2284.74, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "So, for 2025, the COA rendered an unmodified opinion on the fairness of presentation of the financial statements of the OMB." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000271", "start_seconds": 2286.06, "end_seconds": 2291.98, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "So, going on the other relevant information to have the committee in the deliberations." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000272", "start_seconds": 2292.1, "end_seconds": 2295.1, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Of the fiscal year 2027 proposed budget." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000273", "start_seconds": 2295.4, "end_seconds": 2307.46, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "So, the requested additional funding, purchase of new building, part of five-year installment acquisition amounting to 7.3 billion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000274", "start_seconds": 2307.86, "end_seconds": 2320.56, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Funding requirements for the creation of the Ombudsman Marshal and additional positions to augment the general administration and support units." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000275", "start_seconds": 2321.52, "end_seconds": 2323.7, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Additional confidential funds." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000276", "start_seconds": 2324.44, "end_seconds": 2334.2799999999997, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "And motor vehicles for officials and general dispatch for a total of 1.8 billion, 36 million, 351,000 pesos." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000277", "start_seconds": 2339.31, "end_seconds": 2350.09, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "So, we also would like to request the restatement of special provision already included in the 2026 GAA with some minor modification." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000278", "start_seconds": 2350.27, "end_seconds": 2357.37, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "So, on the use of savings, the Ombudsman is authorized to use savings from appropriations of the Office of the Ombudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000279", "start_seconds": 2357.85, "end_seconds": 2358.45, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "To augment." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000280", "start_seconds": 2358.63, "end_seconds": 2365.31, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Appled deficiencies in any item of its appropriations for the current year, which may include the following purposes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000281", "start_seconds": 2365.81, "end_seconds": 2371.31, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Printing and or publication of decisions, resolutions, and training information materials." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000282", "start_seconds": 2372.63, "end_seconds": 2378.43, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Repair, maintenance, and improvement of central and regional offices, facilities, and equipment." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000283", "start_seconds": 2379.29, "end_seconds": 2382.31, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Purchase of equipment, books, journals, and periodicals." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000284", "start_seconds": 2383.41, "end_seconds": 2388.45, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Necessary expenses for the employment of temporary, contractual, and casual employees." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000285", "start_seconds": 2388.65, "end_seconds": 2398.81, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Payment of extraordinary and miscellaneous expenses, representation, and transportation allowances, and other authorized benefits of its officials and employees." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000286", "start_seconds": 2399.87, "end_seconds": 2415.95, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "And other capital expenditures and any other legal or official purpose as determined by him to strengthen the office and enhance its operations and services, as well as for any other expenditure or purpose authorized by law." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000287", "start_seconds": 2415.95, "end_seconds": 2417.91, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Subject to pertinent budgeting." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000288", "start_seconds": 2418.65, "end_seconds": 2420.37, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "And auditing rules and regulation." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000289", "start_seconds": 2423.94, "end_seconds": 2426.92, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Use of income." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000290", "start_seconds": 2427.7, "end_seconds": 2444.54, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "The Office of the Ombudsman may use the income it generates from peace and other authorized collections subject to the pertinent sections in the general provisions of this act for purposes as may be specifically authorized during or by applicable provisions of law." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000291", "start_seconds": 2445.32, "end_seconds": 2449.54, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Release of payment of retirement benefits and pensions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000292", "start_seconds": 2450.84, "end_seconds": 2451.64, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Appropriations." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000293", "start_seconds": 2451.96, "end_seconds": 2481.02, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Authorized for payment of retirement benefits and pensions of the Ombudsman and his or her deputies, the Special Prosecutor and all qualified officials and employees of the Office of the Ombudsman with salary grade 26 to 29 under Section 2 of RA-110-59 shall be released directly to the Office of the Ombudsman subject to the computation and conditions prescribed in applicable retirement laws, rules, and regulations." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000295", "start_seconds": 2481.2799999999997, "end_seconds": 2487.12, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Retirement of the Ombudsman, Deputy Ombudsman, or the Special Prosecutor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000296", "start_seconds": 2487.12, "end_seconds": 2511.14, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Service for a full term for purposes of the retirement of the Ombudsman, Deputy Ombudsman, or the Special Prosecutor under RA-110-59 may be satisfied if the concerned official has rendered a continuous service in the Office of the Ombudsman of at least two years as Ombudsman, Deputy Ombudsman, or Special Prosecutor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000297", "start_seconds": 2511.2799999999997, "end_seconds": 2516.56, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "and has rendered a cumulative service with the government of a total of seven years," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000298", "start_seconds": 2519.02, "end_seconds": 2524.2, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "including the two years rendered continuously as Ombudsman, Deputy Ombudsman, or Special Prosecutor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000300", "start_seconds": 2524.32, "end_seconds": 2527.54, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "In any event, an Ombudsman, Deputy Ombudsman, or Special Prosecutor who has rendered at least seven years in the government," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000301", "start_seconds": 2528.36, "end_seconds": 2535.46, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "with the last two years of that service having been rendered continuously" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000302", "start_seconds": 2535.46, "end_seconds": 2539.5, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "in the Office of the Ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000303", "start_seconds": 2539.5, "end_seconds": 2540.12, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "as Ombudsman," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000304", "start_seconds": 2540.12, "end_seconds": 2541.14, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Deputy Ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000305", "start_seconds": 2541.14, "end_seconds": 2547.64, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "or Special Prosecutor shall likewise be entitled to retire and receive during the residue" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000306", "start_seconds": 2547.64, "end_seconds": 2555.1, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "of his or her natural life the same benefits provided for under RA-1-1059. An official or" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000307", "start_seconds": 2555.1, "end_seconds": 2565.52, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "employee claiming retirement benefits under RA-1-1059 may only do so once. So these provisions" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000308", "start_seconds": 2565.52, "end_seconds": 2571.92, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "concerning the use of savings, use of income, release of payment of retirement benefits and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000309", "start_seconds": 2571.92, "end_seconds": 2577.08, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "pension, and retirement of the ombudsman, deputy ombudsman, or the special prosecutor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000310", "start_seconds": 2577.08, "end_seconds": 2582.82, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "are indispensable safeguards that uphold the office's constitutionally guaranteed independence" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000311", "start_seconds": 2582.82, "end_seconds": 2589.48, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "and fiscal autonomy. It is earnestly hoped that the foregoing provisions will be included in the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000312", "start_seconds": 2589.48, "end_seconds": 2594.06, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "General Appropriations Bill that will be passed by the Senate of the Philippines." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000313", "start_seconds": 2594.84, "end_seconds": 2595.5, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "In closing," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000314", "start_seconds": 2595.52, "end_seconds": 2600.46, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "it cannot be denied that the Philippines struggles every day with the problem of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000315", "start_seconds": 2600.46, "end_seconds": 2606.08, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "poverty and corruption. Indeed, there is a positive association between corruption and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000316", "start_seconds": 2606.08, "end_seconds": 2613.5, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "poverty. Corruption affects all of us and dangers our national life, makes the poor poorer. Reduced" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000317", "start_seconds": 2613.5, "end_seconds": 2619.3, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "incidences of corruption increases government savings that can in turn be used for poverty" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000318", "start_seconds": 2619.3, "end_seconds": 2625.08, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "alleviation projects of this administration. Thus, the Office of Ombudsman earnestly hopes" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000319", "start_seconds": 2625.52, "end_seconds": 2631.7200000000003, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "that the Senate of the Philippines, in considering the budget of the Office of the Ombudsman for" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000320", "start_seconds": 2631.7200000000003, "end_seconds": 2637.98, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "2027 and that of the succeeding years, would realize the crucial role it performs in the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000321", "start_seconds": 2637.98, "end_seconds": 2643.84, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "investigation or case build-up and enforcement of administrative, civil, and criminal liability" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000322", "start_seconds": 2643.84, "end_seconds": 2649.48, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "to promote efficient service by the government to the people through its proactive approaches." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000323", "start_seconds": 2650.16, "end_seconds": 2655.36, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "The Office of the Ombudsman, in return, commits that the budgetary support it needs will be" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000324", "start_seconds": 2655.36, "end_seconds": 2674.36, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "not be spent aimlessly but will be utilized with a useful seal and dedication to enhance the confidence of the general public in the OMB as their watchdog, mobilizer, official critic, and dispenser of justice because the Filipino people deserves no less." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000325", "start_seconds": 2674.36, "end_seconds": 2677.36, "speaker": "Office of the Ombudsman Director IV Christopher B. Lim", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000326", "start_seconds": 2677.36, "end_seconds": 2679.96, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000327", "start_seconds": 2679.96, "end_seconds": 2684.16, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "At this point, we would like to open the floor to our colleagues to ask their questions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000328", "start_seconds": 2684.16, "end_seconds": 2688.66, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "As our Senate President Pro Tempore is here, Senator Lacson also in order of arrival." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000329", "start_seconds": 2688.94, "end_seconds": 2692.16, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Senator Lacson was ahead, but of course, we'll..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000330", "start_seconds": 2693.66, "end_seconds": 2696.42, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Our Senate President Pro Tempore, Senator Tito Sotafo." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000331", "start_seconds": 2696.6, "end_seconds": 2700.06, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Senator Lacson." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000332", "start_seconds": 2700.0, "end_seconds": 2702.98, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "And, of course, again, good morning to everyone." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000333", "start_seconds": 2706.24, "end_seconds": 2716.34, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Most of the questions that I would like to pose were answered by the proposal, as I expected by the presentation, except for one item." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000334", "start_seconds": 2716.5, "end_seconds": 2725.9, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "But then again, I would like to thank you for including the finding requirements for the Ombudsman Marshal already." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000335", "start_seconds": 2725.9, "end_seconds": 2734.06, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "And then perhaps we can discuss later with Senator Lacson and Senator JV the law that will provide for this." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000336", "start_seconds": 2734.2, "end_seconds": 2739.98, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "But as far as the budget is concerned, the Chairman, I'm sure, would be able to come up with this." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000337", "start_seconds": 2740.1, "end_seconds": 2742.52, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "And I'm glad you have already proposed it here." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000338", "start_seconds": 2743.84, "end_seconds": 2747.26, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Now, there's only one hanging question for me here on the budget." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000339", "start_seconds": 2747.44, "end_seconds": 2751.68, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "As a matter of fact, I'm tempted to ask the Chairman to approve your budget already." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000340", "start_seconds": 2751.68, "end_seconds": 2755.06, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "But just one hanging question." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000341", "start_seconds": 2755.9, "end_seconds": 2765.54, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Your plantilla positions, why is it that only 49% are being filled?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000342", "start_seconds": 2765.88, "end_seconds": 2769.68, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "And does this include regional offices, please, Mr. Ombudsman?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000343", "start_seconds": 2771.87, "end_seconds": 2775.57, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "So, we're hiring people now, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000344", "start_seconds": 2778.17, "end_seconds": 2781.67, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "The process of hiring people is not very easy, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000345", "start_seconds": 2781.67, "end_seconds": 2785.89, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "That's one thing that we can tell you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000346", "start_seconds": 2786.49, "end_seconds": 2787.15, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Because we..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000347", "start_seconds": 2787.15, "end_seconds": 2790.93, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "There is a screening, a very rigorous screening for those who apply for the office." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000348", "start_seconds": 2792.47, "end_seconds": 2794.65, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "This year, we hired 60 lawyers." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000349", "start_seconds": 2795.73, "end_seconds": 2796.67, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "60 lawyers." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000350", "start_seconds": 2796.85, "end_seconds": 2799.53, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And we expect to hire 40 more by November." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000351", "start_seconds": 2800.19, "end_seconds": 2805.09, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But the application process, they were only told that they were hired this August." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000352", "start_seconds": 2805.51, "end_seconds": 2808.95, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But they applied as early as January and February." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000353", "start_seconds": 2808.95, "end_seconds": 2817.13, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "So, it takes seven months or eight months to actually create, to really fill in an item." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000354", "start_seconds": 2817.15, "end_seconds": 2817.79, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000355", "start_seconds": 2819.61, "end_seconds": 2823.65, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And, of course, we have space constraints also, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000356", "start_seconds": 2823.83, "end_seconds": 2825.05, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Our office is very small." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000357", "start_seconds": 2825.59, "end_seconds": 2834.03, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Physically, our office buildings cannot actually carry a very good setup for lawyers to work in." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000358", "start_seconds": 2834.47, "end_seconds": 2836.37, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "That's why we are asking for a new building." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000359", "start_seconds": 2836.57, "end_seconds": 2838.83, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We are actually purchasing a new building, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000360", "start_seconds": 2838.83, "end_seconds": 2840.83, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000361", "start_seconds": 2840.83, "end_seconds": 2844.48, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "So," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000375", "start_seconds": 2849.46, "end_seconds": 2852.46, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "So, it's a..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000376", "start_seconds": 2853.4, "end_seconds": 2856.46, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "With our plantilla positions, we actually are..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000377", "start_seconds": 2857.34, "end_seconds": 2859.86, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We have more than 2,000 positions in our plantilla." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000378", "start_seconds": 2860.66, "end_seconds": 2866.78, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But so far, we only have 1,300 plus people within the office of the ombudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000379", "start_seconds": 2867.16, "end_seconds": 2869.88, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And we are filling it up as we speak." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000380", "start_seconds": 2870.44, "end_seconds": 2875.04, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And actually, we don't have a problem with the applicants." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000381", "start_seconds": 2875.34, "end_seconds": 2877.76, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We have a sufficient number of applicants." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000382", "start_seconds": 2877.76, "end_seconds": 2878.96, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "For the..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000383", "start_seconds": 2878.96, "end_seconds": 2888.84, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "100 lawyers we're hiring this year, including the 60 we already hired, there were 3,700 applicants." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000384", "start_seconds": 2888.84, "end_seconds": 2893.34, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's a very, very good position for lawyers to aspire for." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000385", "start_seconds": 2893.34, "end_seconds": 2896.46, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And we have great..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000386", "start_seconds": 2896.46, "end_seconds": 2901.04, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "The quality of the applicants is actually very, very impressive." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000387", "start_seconds": 2901.04, "end_seconds": 2903.8, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "The credentials are very impressive." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000388", "start_seconds": 2903.8, "end_seconds": 2908.8, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But the process actually takes a long time for government to hire people based on the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000389", "start_seconds": 2908.8, "end_seconds": 2914.84, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "plantilla and all the other rules that come with it, especially, of course, the personnel" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000390", "start_seconds": 2914.84, "end_seconds": 2923.56, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "selection board within the office will also give priority to those who are already within" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000391", "start_seconds": 2923.56, "end_seconds": 2924.74, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "so that we can promote them." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000392", "start_seconds": 2924.74, "end_seconds": 2927.8, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "So, it really takes a little more time, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000393", "start_seconds": 2927.8, "end_seconds": 2929.48, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "All right." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000394", "start_seconds": 2929.48, "end_seconds": 2930.48, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000395", "start_seconds": 2930.48, "end_seconds": 2931.48, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Thank you for that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000396", "start_seconds": 2931.48, "end_seconds": 2936.2, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "At least, we know that the budget for that is available, and you are trying to fill it" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000397", "start_seconds": 2936.2, "end_seconds": 2937.2, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "up very soon." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000398", "start_seconds": 2937.2, "end_seconds": 2938.2, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Yes, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000400", "start_seconds": 2938.28, "end_seconds": 2940.22, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000401", "start_seconds": 2940.22, "end_seconds": 2944.52, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "You have a department or a bureau that investigates your own, right?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000402", "start_seconds": 2944.52, "end_seconds": 2945.52, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000403", "start_seconds": 2945.52, "end_seconds": 2947.52, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We have the Internal Affairs Bureau." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000404", "start_seconds": 2947.52, "end_seconds": 2948.52, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000405", "start_seconds": 2948.52, "end_seconds": 2949.52, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000406", "start_seconds": 2949.52, "end_seconds": 2953.9, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "I'm very supportive of the budget of the ombudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000407", "start_seconds": 2953.9, "end_seconds": 2954.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000408", "start_seconds": 2954.9, "end_seconds": 2958.32, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Next to us, Senator Panfilo Ping-Lakson." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000409", "start_seconds": 2958.32, "end_seconds": 2959.82, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000410", "start_seconds": 2959.82, "end_seconds": 2963.74, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "First to address the concern raised by the Senate President Pro Temp." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000411", "start_seconds": 2963.74, "end_seconds": 2967.68, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "I actually filed Senate Bill No. 2394." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000412", "start_seconds": 2967.68, "end_seconds": 2971.48, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "What I just filed is for the Ombudsman's Marshal Service." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000413", "start_seconds": 2971.48, "end_seconds": 2974.92, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "This is to amend Section 15 of the Ombudsman Law." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000414", "start_seconds": 2974.92, "end_seconds": 2981.12, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Ang tawag natin doon sa kanilang law enforcement service is Ombudsman Marshal Service." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000415", "start_seconds": 2981.12, "end_seconds": 2993.18, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "I already mentioned there's a request for PS in the amount of 163.68 million Pesos and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000416", "start_seconds": 2993.18, "end_seconds": 2994.68, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "and another 3.799 million para sa MOOE." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000417", "start_seconds": 2994.68, "end_seconds": 2995.62, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "This is for 2027." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000418", "start_seconds": 2995.62, "end_seconds": 2996.58, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "And" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000419", "start_seconds": 2996.58, "end_seconds": 2997.52, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "the chairman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000420", "start_seconds": 2997.52, "end_seconds": 3012.48, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "has already whispered to me that approve na raw yung inyong request. Bahala na kami maghanap kung saan kukuha ng pangre-realign. Actually," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000421", "start_seconds": 3012.48, "end_seconds": 3020.0, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "for information also in 2021 when the judicial marshal of the judiciary" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000422", "start_seconds": 3020.56, "end_seconds": 3026.56, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "under the supreme court was not yet passed i already realigned or augmented their budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000423", "start_seconds": 3026.56, "end_seconds": 3034.88, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "by 50 million and so doing at least item we can easily realign or augment no from the special" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000424", "start_seconds": 3034.88, "end_seconds": 3041.12, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "purpose fund allowed namanian of course uh in the pala under the office of the president because he" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000425", "start_seconds": 3041.12, "end_seconds": 3049.76, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "constitutional body kayo so you can align your budget to augment at least as long as there is" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000426", "start_seconds": 3049.76, "end_seconds": 3056.56, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "an item in the budget and the ombudsman ombudsman boying knows this very well having come from the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000427", "start_seconds": 3057.12, "end_seconds": 3066.8, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "house of representatives now my my question is moving on of the 12.796 billion uh originally" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000428", "start_seconds": 3066.8, "end_seconds": 3077.44, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "proposed by the Ombudsman, ang ni-recommend lang ng DBM na nakasama sa NEP ay 7.3 billion, with a massive cut ito, 43.5 [unclear]." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000429", "start_seconds": 3078.0, "end_seconds": 3085.12, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "now my question is what specific paps will be sacrificed because of the cuts" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000430", "start_seconds": 3086.64, "end_seconds": 3102.6, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "And sundan ko na lang ng follow-up question. In their order of priorities, what PAPs do you think ang masasacrifice na" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000431", "start_seconds": 3102.6, "end_seconds": 3105.32, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "magha-hamper ng inyong investigative" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000432", "start_seconds": 3105.32, "end_seconds": 3107.0, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "function sa anti-corruption drive" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000433", "start_seconds": 3110.68, "end_seconds": 3114.42, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "kung hindi mare-restore?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000434", "start_seconds": 3114.42, "end_seconds": 3117.36, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Paki-prioritize na lang." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000435", "start_seconds": 3117.36, "end_seconds": 3120.48, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "Good morning, Mr. Chairman. So from the 12.7 billion that we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000437", "start_seconds": 3122.0, "end_seconds": 3124.14, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "requested, sir, ang deficiency" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000438", "start_seconds": 3124.14, "end_seconds": 3125.76, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "ay 5.5B" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000439", "start_seconds": 3125.76, "end_seconds": 3128.1, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "and these are cut across" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000440", "start_seconds": 3128.1, "end_seconds": 3130.04, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "general administration in support" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000441", "start_seconds": 3130.04, "end_seconds": 3131.64, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "4.1B" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000442", "start_seconds": 3131.64, "end_seconds": 3133.84, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "support to operations 500" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000443", "start_seconds": 3133.84, "end_seconds": 3135.74, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "million, anti-corruption" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000444", "start_seconds": 3135.74, "end_seconds": 3138.06, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "investigation program 300 million" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000445", "start_seconds": 3138.06, "end_seconds": 3140.12, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Excuse me, ang tanong ko lang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000446", "start_seconds": 3140.12, "end_seconds": 3142.26, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "pakiprioritize kung ano yung" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000447", "start_seconds": 3142.26, "end_seconds": 3144.04, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "sa tingin ninyo kailang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000448", "start_seconds": 3144.04, "end_seconds": 3146.2, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "ma-restore in their" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000449", "start_seconds": 3146.2, "end_seconds": 3147.92, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "order of priorities. Of course" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000450", "start_seconds": 3147.92, "end_seconds": 3150.24, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "we have the records nung sinasabi ninyo" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000451", "start_seconds": 3150.24, "end_seconds": 3151.54, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "kung ano yung mga cuts" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000452", "start_seconds": 3151.54, "end_seconds": 3153.52, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "but I want to find out" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000453", "start_seconds": 3153.52, "end_seconds": 3155.3, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "we want to find out ano yung" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000454", "start_seconds": 3155.3, "end_seconds": 3156.84, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "parang indispensable" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000455", "start_seconds": 3156.84, "end_seconds": 3159.26, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "na ma-restore natin para" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000456", "start_seconds": 3159.26, "end_seconds": 3160.7200000000003, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "for our guidance" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000457", "start_seconds": 3160.7200000000003, "end_seconds": 3162.88, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "especially that the chairman is here" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000458", "start_seconds": 3162.88, "end_seconds": 3165.52, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "pwede nating magawa ng paraan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000459", "start_seconds": 3165.52, "end_seconds": 3167.44, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "na i-restore. But we need to prioritize" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000460", "start_seconds": 3167.44, "end_seconds": 3169.56, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "That's just Mr. Lackson, in order of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000461", "start_seconds": 3169.56, "end_seconds": 3171.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "priority, talagang sinasabi" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000462", "start_seconds": 3171.5, "end_seconds": 3172.84, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "ni Mr. Lackson, yun talagang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000463", "start_seconds": 3172.84, "end_seconds": 3175.42, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "what is really needed na talagang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000464", "start_seconds": 3175.42, "end_seconds": 3177.36, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "that you would want us to restore" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000465", "start_seconds": 3177.36, "end_seconds": 3179.06, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Mr. Chairman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000466", "start_seconds": 3179.06, "end_seconds": 3181.36, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "purchase of a new office building" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000467", "start_seconds": 3181.36, "end_seconds": 3183.18, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "is very important" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000468", "start_seconds": 3183.18, "end_seconds": 3184.68, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "to us so that we can give" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000469", "start_seconds": 3184.68, "end_seconds": 3186.94, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "good working conditions" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000470", "start_seconds": 3186.94, "end_seconds": 3189.16, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "for our lawyers and for our personnel" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000471", "start_seconds": 3189.16, "end_seconds": 3191.38, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "That's" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000472", "start_seconds": 3191.38, "end_seconds": 3193.44, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "1.465 billion" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000473", "start_seconds": 3193.44, "end_seconds": 3195.26, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Funding requirements" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000474", "start_seconds": 3195.26, "end_seconds": 3197.18, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "for the creation of the Ombudsman Marshall" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000475", "start_seconds": 3197.18, "end_seconds": 3199.06, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "of course is a priority" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000476", "start_seconds": 3199.06, "end_seconds": 3200.46, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and that will" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000477", "start_seconds": 3200.46, "end_seconds": 3202.38, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "be more than" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000478", "start_seconds": 3202.38, "end_seconds": 3206.46, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "167 million" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000479", "start_seconds": 3206.46, "end_seconds": 3210.49, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Additional confidential funds of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000480", "start_seconds": 3210.49, "end_seconds": 3211.57, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "148 million" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000481", "start_seconds": 3211.57, "end_seconds": 3212.87, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000482", "start_seconds": 3212.89, "end_seconds": 3215.49, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "motor vehicles for" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000483", "start_seconds": 3215.49, "end_seconds": 3217.49, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "officials and general dispatch" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000484", "start_seconds": 3217.49, "end_seconds": 3218.69, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Your Honor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000485", "start_seconds": 3218.69, "end_seconds": 3220.89, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Those are the priority items" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000486", "start_seconds": 3220.89, "end_seconds": 3224.89, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "that's amounting to 1.8 billion" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000487", "start_seconds": 3224.89, "end_seconds": 3226.79, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Thank you, Ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000488", "start_seconds": 3226.79, "end_seconds": 3230.59, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Bahala na si chairman dyan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000489", "start_seconds": 3230.59, "end_seconds": 3231.99, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Anyway, understandably so" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000490", "start_seconds": 3231.99, "end_seconds": 3233.99, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "kasi if we compare" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000491", "start_seconds": 3233.99, "end_seconds": 3236.49, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "yung benchmark ng ICAC" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000492", "start_seconds": 3236.49, "end_seconds": 3237.83, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "yung Hong Kong" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000493", "start_seconds": 3237.83, "end_seconds": 3240.63, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Independent Commission Against Corruption" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000494", "start_seconds": 3240.63, "end_seconds": 3242.87, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "yung kanilang percentage sa kanilang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000495", "start_seconds": 3242.87, "end_seconds": 3243.87, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "total budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000496", "start_seconds": 3243.87, "end_seconds": 3245.17, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "0.38%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000497", "start_seconds": 3245.17, "end_seconds": 3247.87, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "yan ang ina-allocate ng government ng Hong Kong" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000498", "start_seconds": 3247.87, "end_seconds": 3248.4700000000003, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "ng SAR" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000499", "start_seconds": 3248.4700000000003, "end_seconds": 3251.71, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "doon sa kanilang Independent Commission Against Corruption" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000500", "start_seconds": 3251.71, "end_seconds": 3255.73, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "compare that to the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000501", "start_seconds": 3255.73, "end_seconds": 3256.37, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000502", "start_seconds": 3256.37, "end_seconds": 3257.59, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "yung counterpart" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000503", "start_seconds": 3257.59, "end_seconds": 3259.9700000000003, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "nandun lang tayo sa 0.1%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000504", "start_seconds": 3259.9700000000003, "end_seconds": 3262.85, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "kasi kung susunod na natin yung benchmark" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000505", "start_seconds": 3262.85, "end_seconds": 3264.77, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "ng ICAC" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000506", "start_seconds": 3264.77, "end_seconds": 3267.65, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "dapat 25.8 billion" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000507", "start_seconds": 3267.65, "end_seconds": 3268.93, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "at least yung inyong budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000508", "start_seconds": 3268.93, "end_seconds": 3270.15, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "so napakalayo doon sa" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000509", "start_seconds": 3270.15, "end_seconds": 3272.07, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "naiwanan na 7" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000510", "start_seconds": 3272.07, "end_seconds": 3273.9700000000003, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "7.2" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000511", "start_seconds": 3273.9700000000003, "end_seconds": 3275.91, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "3 billion" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000512", "start_seconds": 3275.91, "end_seconds": 3277.51, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "but then" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000513", "start_seconds": 3277.51, "end_seconds": 3279.37, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "these are issues that may be raised" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000514", "start_seconds": 3279.37, "end_seconds": 3280.73, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "sa plenary" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000515", "start_seconds": 3280.73, "end_seconds": 3282.43, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "ng aming mga colleagues" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000516", "start_seconds": 3282.43, "end_seconds": 3284.57, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "anyway, si chairman naman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000517", "start_seconds": 3284.57, "end_seconds": 3286.95, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "ang mag-de-defend nito sa plenary" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000518", "start_seconds": 3286.95, "end_seconds": 3289.21, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "because we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000519", "start_seconds": 3289.21, "end_seconds": 3290.5299999999997, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "see some" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000520", "start_seconds": 3290.5299999999997, "end_seconds": 3292.37, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "lump sum appropriations" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000521", "start_seconds": 3292.37, "end_seconds": 3294.67, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "for personal services" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000522", "start_seconds": 3294.67, "end_seconds": 3296.15, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "ang total nito" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000523", "start_seconds": 3296.15, "end_seconds": 3298.29, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "1.68 billion pesos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000524", "start_seconds": 3298.29, "end_seconds": 3301.69, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "this is to provide" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000525", "start_seconds": 3301.69, "end_seconds": 3301.87, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "a" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000526", "start_seconds": 3302.07, "end_seconds": 3302.73, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "as mentioned" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000527", "start_seconds": 3302.73, "end_seconds": 3303.87, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "to fill up" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000528", "start_seconds": 3303.87, "end_seconds": 3308.19, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "1,247" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000529", "start_seconds": 3308.19, "end_seconds": 3309.0299999999997, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "vacant positions" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000530", "start_seconds": 3309.0299999999997, "end_seconds": 3312.49, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "51.1" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000531", "start_seconds": 3312.49, "end_seconds": 3314.07, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "ang vacancy rate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000532", "start_seconds": 3314.07, "end_seconds": 3314.79, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "ng Ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000533", "start_seconds": 3314.79, "end_seconds": 3315.85, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "my question is" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000534", "start_seconds": 3315.85, "end_seconds": 3317.59, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "how confident are you" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000535", "start_seconds": 3317.59, "end_seconds": 3319.21, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "na pwede nyo ma-fill up" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000536", "start_seconds": 3319.21, "end_seconds": 3321.01, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "kasi this will be an issue" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000537", "start_seconds": 3321.01, "end_seconds": 3322.01, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "that will be raised" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000538", "start_seconds": 3322.01, "end_seconds": 3323.27, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "during the plenary" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000539", "start_seconds": 3323.27, "end_seconds": 3325.05, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "deliberation" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000540", "start_seconds": 3325.05, "end_seconds": 3326.59, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "so we must be able" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000541", "start_seconds": 3326.59, "end_seconds": 3327.57, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "or at least si chairman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000542", "start_seconds": 3327.57, "end_seconds": 3329.55, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "must be able to address that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000543", "start_seconds": 3329.55, "end_seconds": 3331.05, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "kasi medyo malaki yung" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000544", "start_seconds": 3331.05, "end_seconds": 3332.05, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "51.1%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000545", "start_seconds": 3332.07, "end_seconds": 3336.51, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "na vacancy rate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000546", "start_seconds": 3336.51, "end_seconds": 3338.75, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "and that would translate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000547", "start_seconds": 3338.75, "end_seconds": 3339.79, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "to how many personnel" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000548", "start_seconds": 3339.79, "end_seconds": 3341.93, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "sir" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000549", "start_seconds": 3341.93, "end_seconds": 3342.91, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "your honor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000550", "start_seconds": 3342.91, "end_seconds": 3345.0299999999997, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "if we are given the chance" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000551", "start_seconds": 3345.0299999999997, "end_seconds": 3345.77, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "to really" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000552", "start_seconds": 3345.77, "end_seconds": 3347.75, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "hire these people" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000553", "start_seconds": 3347.75, "end_seconds": 3348.77, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "now" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000554", "start_seconds": 3348.77, "end_seconds": 3351.11, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. 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Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "across" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000696", "start_seconds": 3512.48, "end_seconds": 3513.04, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "um" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000697", "start_seconds": 3514.04, "end_seconds": 3515.12, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "the country sir" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000698", "start_seconds": 3515.12, "end_seconds": 3515.96, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "so this covers" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000699", "start_seconds": 3515.96, "end_seconds": 3517.04, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "our sectoral offices" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000700", "start_seconds": 3517.04, "end_seconds": 3517.76, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "in luzon" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000701", "start_seconds": 3517.76, "end_seconds": 3518.36, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "visayas" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000702", "start_seconds": 3518.36, "end_seconds": 3519.32, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "and mindanao" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000703", "start_seconds": 3519.32, "end_seconds": 3520.58, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000704", "start_seconds": 3520.58, "end_seconds": 3521.62, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "as to answer" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000705", "start_seconds": 3521.62, "end_seconds": 3522.64, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "your question sir" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000706", "start_seconds": 3522.64, "end_seconds": 3523.52, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "um" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000707", "start_seconds": 3523.52, "end_seconds": 3524.32, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. 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Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "these sir" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000718", "start_seconds": 3531.38, "end_seconds": 3534.7200000000003, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "If funding is approved," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000719", "start_seconds": 3534.7200000000003, "end_seconds": 3535.4, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "what is the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000720", "start_seconds": 3535.4, "end_seconds": 3536.26, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "realistic timeline" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000721", "start_seconds": 3536.26, "end_seconds": 3537.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "to recruit" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000722", "start_seconds": 3537.02, "end_seconds": 3538.7, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "vet and train" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000723", "start_seconds": 3538.7, "end_seconds": 3539.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "these marshals" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000724", "start_seconds": 3539.9, "end_seconds": 3541.18, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "so that these funds" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000725", "start_seconds": 3541.18, "end_seconds": 3542.08, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "won't end up" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000726", "start_seconds": 3542.08, "end_seconds": 3542.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "as unspent" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000727", "start_seconds": 3542.82, "end_seconds": 3543.64, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "appropriations" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000728", "start_seconds": 3543.64, "end_seconds": 3544.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "at the end of the year" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000729", "start_seconds": 3544.9, "end_seconds": 3545.62, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Ano yung" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000730", "start_seconds": 3546.0, "end_seconds": 3546.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "actual timeline natin?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000731", "start_seconds": 3546.5, "end_seconds": 3547.0, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "mr chairman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000732", "start_seconds": 3547.0, "end_seconds": 3547.94, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "if i may interject" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000733", "start_seconds": 3547.94, "end_seconds": 3549.0, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "may i ask the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000734", "start_seconds": 3549.0, "end_seconds": 3549.62, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000735", "start_seconds": 3549.62, "end_seconds": 3550.82, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "do you already have" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000736", "start_seconds": 3550.82, "end_seconds": 3551.74, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "somebody in mind" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000737", "start_seconds": 3551.74, "end_seconds": 3552.44, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "to head the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000738", "start_seconds": 3552.44, "end_seconds": 3552.88, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "judicial" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000739", "start_seconds": 3552.88, "end_seconds": 3554.66, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "marshal service" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000740", "start_seconds": 3554.66, "end_seconds": 3555.98, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "your honor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000741", "start_seconds": 3555.98, "end_seconds": 3556.64, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "we already have" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000742", "start_seconds": 3556.64, "end_seconds": 3557.58, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "an assistant ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000743", "start_seconds": 3557.58, "end_seconds": 3557.86, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "now" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000744", "start_seconds": 3557.86, "end_seconds": 3558.26, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "yeah" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000745", "start_seconds": 3558.26, "end_seconds": 3558.7799999999997, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "who can" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000746", "start_seconds": 3558.7799999999997, "end_seconds": 3559.62, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "who is very" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000747", "start_seconds": 3559.62, "end_seconds": 3560.48, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "qualified to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000748", "start_seconds": 3560.48, "end_seconds": 3561.06, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "to be" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000749", "start_seconds": 3561.06, "end_seconds": 3562.58, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "to be" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000750", "start_seconds": 3562.58, "end_seconds": 3564.46, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "our marshal" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000751", "start_seconds": 3564.46, "end_seconds": 3564.84, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "your honor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000752", "start_seconds": 3564.84, "end_seconds": 3565.7, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "yeah and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000753", "start_seconds": 3565.7, "end_seconds": 3566.4, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "and that is" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000754", "start_seconds": 3566.4, "end_seconds": 3567.46, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "general" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000755", "start_seconds": 3567.46, "end_seconds": 3568.38, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Eli Cruz" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000756", "start_seconds": 3568.38, "end_seconds": 3568.62, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "yeah" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000757", "start_seconds": 3568.62, "end_seconds": 3569.7799999999997, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Para rin" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000758", "start_seconds": 3569.7799999999997, "end_seconds": 3571.2799999999997, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "ma-guide kami doon sa aming bill" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000759", "start_seconds": 3571.2799999999997, "end_seconds": 3572.2200000000003, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "na ipapasa" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000760", "start_seconds": 3572.2200000000003, "end_seconds": 3573.86, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "na he may not" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000761", "start_seconds": 3573.86, "end_seconds": 3574.88, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "necessarily be a lawyer" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000762", "start_seconds": 3574.88, "end_seconds": 3575.2200000000003, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "no" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000763", "start_seconds": 3575.2200000000003, "end_seconds": 3575.98, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "basta't merong" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000764", "start_seconds": 3576.0, "end_seconds": 3577.0, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "10 years na" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000765", "start_seconds": 3577.0, "end_seconds": 3578.0, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "law enforcement" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000766", "start_seconds": 3578.0, "end_seconds": 3579.0, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "service experience" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000767", "start_seconds": 3579.0, "end_seconds": 3582.0, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "yun na lang, investigative experience." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000768", "start_seconds": 3582.0, "end_seconds": 3582.3, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "thank you" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000769", "start_seconds": 3582.3, "end_seconds": 3583.2200000000003, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "thank you mr chairman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000770", "start_seconds": 3583.2200000000003, "end_seconds": 3585.2, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "likewise before we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000771", "start_seconds": 3585.2, "end_seconds": 3586.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "continue" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000772", "start_seconds": 3586.02, "end_seconds": 3587.18, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "The chair would like" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000773", "start_seconds": 3587.18, "end_seconds": 3587.94, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "to acknowledge the presence" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000774", "start_seconds": 3587.94, "end_seconds": 3589.2200000000003, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "of our Senate President," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000775", "start_seconds": 3589.2200000000003, "end_seconds": 3589.68, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Win" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000776", "start_seconds": 3589.68, "end_seconds": 3590.92, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Gatchalian." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000777", "start_seconds": 3590.92, "end_seconds": 3593.0, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Ah," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000778", "start_seconds": 3593.0, "end_seconds": 3593.2799999999997, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Senate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000779", "start_seconds": 3593.2799999999997, "end_seconds": 3594.2799999999997, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "President," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000780", "start_seconds": 3594.2799999999997, "end_seconds": 3594.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "we might" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000781", "start_seconds": 3594.9, "end_seconds": 3595.38, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "want to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000782", "start_seconds": 3595.38, "end_seconds": 3595.7799999999997, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "ask" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000783", "start_seconds": 3595.7799999999997, "end_seconds": 3596.52, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "questions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000784", "start_seconds": 3600.24, "end_seconds": 3608.62, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Okay, to continue, looking at the numbers from 2023 to 2025, we had a single year where over half a billion pesos were unused." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000785", "start_seconds": 3609.38, "end_seconds": 3613.3, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And your actual cash disbursements dropped to 87.3 last year." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000786", "start_seconds": 3614.04, "end_seconds": 3617.3, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "How can we justify the request to increase the budget of the Ombudsman?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000787", "start_seconds": 3617.64, "end_seconds": 3622.22, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Where is the bottleneck when it comes to actually disbursing those funds?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000788", "start_seconds": 3622.4, "end_seconds": 3624.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Kasi pag ano, ito talaga natin yung disbursement." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000789", "start_seconds": 3624.9, "end_seconds": 3631.5, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Your Honor, actually, one thing that we have to streamline is our hiring process." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000790", "start_seconds": 3631.92, "end_seconds": 3639.28, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's actually very stringent, and I myself was getting impatient about it, to be honest about it, sir." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000791", "start_seconds": 3639.7, "end_seconds": 3641.12, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But we will get there." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000792", "start_seconds": 3641.12, "end_seconds": 3653.02, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I think that there's a way to streamline the hiring process because the job really needs, the office really needs more investigators who will be there full time." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000793", "start_seconds": 3653.84, "end_seconds": 3654.88, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And we'll get there." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000794", "start_seconds": 3654.9, "end_seconds": 3658.86, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And we'll really focus on every crime that we are investigating and every official we are investigating." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000795", "start_seconds": 3659.58, "end_seconds": 3663.2, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And it's just a matter of streamlining it, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000796", "start_seconds": 3665.23, "end_seconds": 3670.39, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Anyway, also, the office of the Ombudsman is very active now." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000797", "start_seconds": 3670.61, "end_seconds": 3672.15, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "At least hindi na ito natutulog." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000798", "start_seconds": 3672.33, "end_seconds": 3679.13, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And we're very happy that one of the priorities of the Ombudsman, may timeline na." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000799", "start_seconds": 3679.73, "end_seconds": 3685.43, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Can you elaborate, Mr. Ombudsman, para at least hindi na" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000800", "start_seconds": 3685.43, "end_seconds": 3685.95, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "natutulog yung mga kaso na madalas nakakalimutan?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000801", "start_seconds": 3686.31, "end_seconds": 3703.37, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Your Honor, when we were doing a study on the cases pending before the Sandigan Bayan and the regional trial courts, there was a figure that struck us because we had cases which were filed in 1987, which are still in the Sandigan Bayan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000802", "start_seconds": 3705.23, "end_seconds": 3716.27, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And there are so many cases that have a 15-year life already, which, of course, results in dismissal because of the interruption." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000803", "start_seconds": 3716.59, "end_seconds": 3726.69, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "So, Mr. Chairman, I think that we have laid down many parameters that are necessary for our prosecutors." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000804", "start_seconds": 3727.37, "end_seconds": 3733.45, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And among the most important of this is to be able to present our case continuously for one year." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000805", "start_seconds": 3733.87, "end_seconds": 3744.07, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And our target is to be able to present our cases within a one-year period from filing so that we will be able to arrest the prosecution's case within a one-year period from filing." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000806", "start_seconds": 3744.37, "end_seconds": 3745.73, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "That is an ideal." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000807", "start_seconds": 3746.31, "end_seconds": 3750.41, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "an ideal number, an ideal timeline, Mr. Chairman," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000808", "start_seconds": 3750.53, "end_seconds": 3753.69, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "because at least the memory of the judiciary will be fresh" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000809", "start_seconds": 3753.69, "end_seconds": 3755.75, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "whenever we do this." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000810", "start_seconds": 3756.11, "end_seconds": 3758.85, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And there will be no more complaints about lost evidence," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000811", "start_seconds": 3759.41, "end_seconds": 3763.65, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "lost witnesses, and other things that happen," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000812", "start_seconds": 3763.95, "end_seconds": 3766.89, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "other miracles that happen when cases take a long time." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000813", "start_seconds": 3767.37, "end_seconds": 3770.49, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "So actually, that's a target, that's a very idealistic target." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000814", "start_seconds": 3770.89, "end_seconds": 3773.15, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But I think it can be done with the cooperation, of course," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000815", "start_seconds": 3773.15, "end_seconds": 3774.51, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "of the Sandiganbayan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000816", "start_seconds": 3774.51, "end_seconds": 3781.19, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Likewise, talagang ano no, the work of the Ombudsman is 50%," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000817", "start_seconds": 3781.19, "end_seconds": 3783.93, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and the other half is really the judiciary, no. Kaya nga" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000818", "start_seconds": 3784.35, "end_seconds": 3788.11, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "I think the Ombudsman has been very vocal about this." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000819", "start_seconds": 3789.97, "end_seconds": 3795.45, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Sometimes he is so frustrated that with all the work that they have done," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000820", "start_seconds": 3795.45, "end_seconds": 3804.95, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "tapos minsan nadidismiss or nawawater down" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000821", "start_seconds": 3804.95, "end_seconds": 3805.83, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "in the judiciary." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000822", "start_seconds": 3805.85, "end_seconds": 3809.03, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "With regards to the confidential funds," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000823", "start_seconds": 3809.17, "end_seconds": 3813.23, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "the request is 148 million, but what was approved was only 50." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000824", "start_seconds": 3814.73, "end_seconds": 3822.35, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "What will be the operations or any programs that will be affected?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000825", "start_seconds": 3823.15, "end_seconds": 3826.13, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "The request is 148 million." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000826", "start_seconds": 3826.51, "end_seconds": 3833.35, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We want to be able to establish safe quarters for witnesses" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000827", "start_seconds": 3833.35, "end_seconds": 3835.73, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and sometimes our marshals themselves." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000828", "start_seconds": 3835.85, "end_seconds": 3843.23, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And also, we have made a move that probably will be surprising to all," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000829", "start_seconds": 3843.23, "end_seconds": 3849.73, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "because I have decided, we have decided to hire an assistant ombudsman for the BARMM." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000830", "start_seconds": 3851.73, "end_seconds": 3858.11, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And this, of course, entails a lot of risk and a lot of protection needed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000831", "start_seconds": 3858.67, "end_seconds": 3862.27, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "That's why this is something that has to be done," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000832", "start_seconds": 3862.43, "end_seconds": 3864.31, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "because in my experience as a legislator," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000833", "start_seconds": 3864.91, "end_seconds": 3865.81, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I noticed that," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000834", "start_seconds": 3866.19, "end_seconds": 3871.4700000000003, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "people were doing things with impunity more in the BARMM." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000835", "start_seconds": 3872.07, "end_seconds": 3875.41, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I remember being a congressman in the year 2005." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000836", "start_seconds": 3875.41, "end_seconds": 3882.11, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We investigated the GSIS contributions of the teachers," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000837", "start_seconds": 3882.87, "end_seconds": 3885.25, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and there were no contributions made." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000838", "start_seconds": 3886.11, "end_seconds": 3890.79, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And the Secretary of Education at that time had a 7 billion cash advance," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000839", "start_seconds": 3891.51, "end_seconds": 3894.39, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and there was nothing that could be done at that time." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000840", "start_seconds": 3894.63, "end_seconds": 3895.83, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "At least, I was a member of the House." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000841", "start_seconds": 3895.85, "end_seconds": 3897.93, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And I could not forget that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000842", "start_seconds": 3898.43, "end_seconds": 3901.55, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "That's why making this move to the BAHM, I think," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000843", "start_seconds": 3901.67, "end_seconds": 3904.67, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "is one of the most important things that we can do for the country," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000844", "start_seconds": 3905.05, "end_seconds": 3908.11, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "because we cannot neglect that part of the country," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000845", "start_seconds": 3908.49, "end_seconds": 3910.57, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "which has been neglected for such a long time." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000846", "start_seconds": 3910.63, "end_seconds": 3913.05, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But they have to feel they're part of the process." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000847", "start_seconds": 3913.69, "end_seconds": 3915.79, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And to be inclusive about our work," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000848", "start_seconds": 3916.17, "end_seconds": 3919.17, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I think that that's one of the most important things that we can do, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000849", "start_seconds": 3922.0299999999997, "end_seconds": 3925.19, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Likewise, what is the ombudsman's case backlog right now?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000850", "start_seconds": 3925.19, "end_seconds": 3926.33, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "I understand, of course," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000851", "start_seconds": 3926.33, "end_seconds": 3928.73, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "na talagang ito yung tinututukan natin, Ombudsman," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000852", "start_seconds": 3928.87, "end_seconds": 3934.95, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "na nag-set na kayo ng deadlines with regards to cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000853", "start_seconds": 3935.55, "end_seconds": 3940.29, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So just for the information of the committee," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000854", "start_seconds": 3940.89, "end_seconds": 3941.91, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "the current case backlog," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000855", "start_seconds": 3942.85, "end_seconds": 3946.07, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and what is your target for reducing this backlog in 2027?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000856", "start_seconds": 3948.98, "end_seconds": 3954.44, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "Mr. Chair, as of June 30, 2026, sir," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000857", "start_seconds": 3954.44, "end_seconds": 3958.2, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "we have a total of 4,219" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000858", "start_seconds": 3958.2200000000003, "end_seconds": 3963.4, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "cases pending, 1,955 of which are criminal cases," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000859", "start_seconds": 3963.88, "end_seconds": 3969.48, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "six forfeiture cases, and 2,258 administrative cases, sir." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000860", "start_seconds": 3970.14, "end_seconds": 3971.82, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "And in order to address this, sir," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000861", "start_seconds": 3971.9, "end_seconds": 3974.7, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "the first thing that this new administration has done" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000862", "start_seconds": 3974.7, "end_seconds": 3978.68, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "is to streamline the rules of procedure of the Office of the Ombudsman," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000863", "start_seconds": 3978.76, "end_seconds": 3983.46, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "limiting fact-finding investigations from previously one year" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000864", "start_seconds": 3983.46, "end_seconds": 3987.1, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "to now 60 and 90 days for simple and complex cases, sir." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000865", "start_seconds": 3988.2200000000003, "end_seconds": 3994.14, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "You have approximately allocated 913 million for investigations." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000866", "start_seconds": 3994.42, "end_seconds": 3999.48, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So how will this amount translate to faster and more effective investigation" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000867", "start_seconds": 3999.48, "end_seconds": 4000.68, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "on corruption cases?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000868", "start_seconds": 4002.54, "end_seconds": 4004.54, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "Sir, we are expecting, sir," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000869", "start_seconds": 4004.6, "end_seconds": 4008.62, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "that this amount of budget will greatly help our investigators, sir," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000870", "start_seconds": 4008.64, "end_seconds": 4009.68, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "because they need it, sir," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000871", "start_seconds": 4009.68, "end_seconds": 4013.74, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "for their expenses when they conduct investigations nationwide, sir." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000872", "start_seconds": 4017.45, "end_seconds": 4017.93, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Very awesome." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000873", "start_seconds": 4017.93, "end_seconds": 4019.93, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And then, sir," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000874", "start_seconds": 4021.13, "end_seconds": 4025.93, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "siguro pag-usapan na rin natin, no, since flooding is very, you know, right now," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000875", "start_seconds": 4026.05, "end_seconds": 4028.71, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "we all know for a fact that the biggest scandal," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000876", "start_seconds": 4029.19, "end_seconds": 4032.71, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "the biggest corruption scandal in history happened last year," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000877", "start_seconds": 4033.25, "end_seconds": 4033.71, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "probably," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000878", "start_seconds": 4034.75, "end_seconds": 4039.05, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "ang naantay kasi ng taong bayan dito kung mapanagot," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000879", "start_seconds": 4039.17, "end_seconds": 4039.65, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "matukoy" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000880", "start_seconds": 4039.71, "end_seconds": 4040.81, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "at mapanagot na yung mga utak talaga" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000881", "start_seconds": 4041.69, "end_seconds": 4043.23, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "at nakinabang sa scam na ito." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000882", "start_seconds": 4043.55, "end_seconds": 4048.4700000000003, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So do we expect any development this year?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000883", "start_seconds": 4048.47, "end_seconds": 4052.2, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Kasi alam naman natin that yung galit ng taong bayan, gusto nila" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000900", "start_seconds": 4052.2, "end_seconds": 4055.61, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "mabilis. Pero I know that we have to follow the process." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000901", "start_seconds": 4055.81, "end_seconds": 4063.75, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Hindi naman pwede yung basta-basta na lang magkakaso tayo at hindi airtight. So just for the record," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000902", "start_seconds": 4063.93, "end_seconds": 4064.75, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "probably," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000903", "start_seconds": 4064.9700000000003, "end_seconds": 4065.31, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "can we," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000904", "start_seconds": 4065.31, "end_seconds": 4065.77, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "can we," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000905", "start_seconds": 4065.81, "end_seconds": 4065.93, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "you know," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000906", "start_seconds": 4065.9700000000003, "end_seconds": 4066.99, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "hear from the Ombudsman kung" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000907", "start_seconds": 4066.99, "end_seconds": 4069.09, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "ano pong any development now" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000908", "start_seconds": 4069.5299999999997, "end_seconds": 4070.83, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "sa mga masterminds" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000909", "start_seconds": 4070.83, "end_seconds": 4070.93, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "you know," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000910", "start_seconds": 4071.13, "end_seconds": 4071.4700000000003, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "that have," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000911", "start_seconds": 4071.81, "end_seconds": 4072.75, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "na matagal na inaantay ng" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000912", "start_seconds": 4072.87, "end_seconds": 4073.63, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "ating mga kababayan?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000913", "start_seconds": 4074.69, "end_seconds": 4075.41, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "There are now," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000914", "start_seconds": 4075.79, "end_seconds": 4076.09, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000915", "start_seconds": 4076.25, "end_seconds": 4078.33, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "there are now 35 cases before the courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000916", "start_seconds": 4080.5299999999997, "end_seconds": 4081.11, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "In the sense that," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000917", "start_seconds": 4081.11, "end_seconds": 4083.49, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Sandigan Bayan, and in the RTC." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000918", "start_seconds": 4084.89, "end_seconds": 4090.83, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And 31 of them in the Sandigan Bayan and four in the RTCs." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000919", "start_seconds": 4091.55, "end_seconds": 4097.71, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We are now conducting 166 cases for preliminary investigation," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000920", "start_seconds": 4098.49, "end_seconds": 4102.95, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "which of course will lead to filing, most of which will be filed in the courts," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000921", "start_seconds": 4103.65, "end_seconds": 4105.41, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and 107 lifestyle checks." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000922", "start_seconds": 4106.17, "end_seconds": 4109.87, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But we are still refining our method in the lifestyle checks." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000923", "start_seconds": 4109.87, "end_seconds": 4115.95, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I think that we can do a great deal here because when we are more effective" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000924", "start_seconds": 4115.95, "end_seconds": 4120.09, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "in conducting the lifestyle checks, we can go for more forfeiture cases, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000925", "start_seconds": 4120.6900000000005, "end_seconds": 4125.21, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And that, I think, is the most important because once people get used to the fact" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000926", "start_seconds": 4125.21, "end_seconds": 4130.13, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "that the government can forfeit properties that have been unlawfully acquired," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000927", "start_seconds": 4130.57, "end_seconds": 4135.93, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I think it will resonate within the community that information can be given" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000928", "start_seconds": 4135.93, "end_seconds": 4138.6900000000005, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "to the ombudsman because it will do its work, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000929", "start_seconds": 4139.87, "end_seconds": 4140.83, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Ombudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000930", "start_seconds": 4142.63, "end_seconds": 4146.97, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Given the magnitude of the alleged anomalies involving flood control projects," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000931", "start_seconds": 4146.97, "end_seconds": 4153.1900000000005, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "do you currently have sufficient investigators, forensic accountants, engineers," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000932", "start_seconds": 4153.33, "end_seconds": 4157.61, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and other technical personnel to investigate the complex infrastructure procurement cases" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000933", "start_seconds": 4157.61, "end_seconds": 4162.09, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "so that we can augment, if necessary, the personnel requirements," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000934", "start_seconds": 4162.17, "end_seconds": 4164.97, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "if not what additional resources are needed?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000935", "start_seconds": 4165.79, "end_seconds": 4169.85, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Well, Your Honor, actually, it's really the hiring more people that's most important." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000936", "start_seconds": 4169.87, "end_seconds": 4177.1900000000005, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We have to be able to devise our system to make it faster in accepting more people" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000937", "start_seconds": 4177.1900000000005, "end_seconds": 4179.09, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "into the ombudsman's office." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000938", "start_seconds": 4179.65, "end_seconds": 4180.93, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I think this is so critical." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000939", "start_seconds": 4181.37, "end_seconds": 4184.53, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And the old way of doing things was really much slower." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000940", "start_seconds": 4185.05, "end_seconds": 4189.3099999999995, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And we just have to streamline everything so that we can have more investigators" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000941", "start_seconds": 4189.3099999999995, "end_seconds": 4190.79, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "who will file more cases, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000942", "start_seconds": 4191.57, "end_seconds": 4196.61, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Likewise, also, I received information that the ombudsman has recruited young lawyers," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000943", "start_seconds": 4196.61, "end_seconds": 4197.61, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "fresh guys." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000944", "start_seconds": 4199.87, "end_seconds": 4203.13, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "They joined the team." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000945", "start_seconds": 4203.43, "end_seconds": 4206.8099999999995, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So how many were recruited the past year?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000946", "start_seconds": 4207.37, "end_seconds": 4207.99, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Sixty." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000947", "start_seconds": 4208.11, "end_seconds": 4210.1900000000005, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Sixty of them were hired already." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000948", "start_seconds": 4210.71, "end_seconds": 4211.75, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But we're still interviewing." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000949", "start_seconds": 4211.99, "end_seconds": 4215.93, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "There's a next batch of 40 that will be hired by November." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000950", "start_seconds": 4216.79, "end_seconds": 4225.03, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And hopefully this will help us speed up the process of investigation and resolution of cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000951", "start_seconds": 4225.17, "end_seconds": 4227.15, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And, of course, the prosecution of cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000952", "start_seconds": 4227.15, "end_seconds": 4229.15, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But we will..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000953", "start_seconds": 4229.87, "end_seconds": 4236.11, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We will have a dialogue with many of the leaders within the organization, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000954", "start_seconds": 4236.11, "end_seconds": 4238.05, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "so that we can streamline the hiring process." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000955", "start_seconds": 4238.05, "end_seconds": 4241.45, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Because it's actually something that has to be done." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000956", "start_seconds": 4241.93, "end_seconds": 4245.29, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Because a lot of people want to go for promotion when..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000957", "start_seconds": 4245.29, "end_seconds": 4248.29, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And this actually slows down everything." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000958", "start_seconds": 4248.63, "end_seconds": 4254.95, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's not actually a free hand that you have because you have to go into the culture and be one" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000959", "start_seconds": 4254.95, "end_seconds": 4256.51, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "with the people within the office, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000960", "start_seconds": 4258.75, "end_seconds": 4260.93, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "That's the reason also for the needed..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000961", "start_seconds": 4260.93, "end_seconds": 4261.33, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "The new..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000962", "start_seconds": 4261.33, "end_seconds": 4263.47, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "The new office, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000963", "start_seconds": 4263.53, "end_seconds": 4266.25, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "that you would want a better environment also, more accessible, kasi" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000964", "start_seconds": 4266.51, "end_seconds": 4272.15, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "office of the Ombudsman medyo, it is in Quezon City and it is not really that accessible." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000965", "start_seconds": 4272.35, "end_seconds": 4274.09, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Parang walang public transport." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000966", "start_seconds": 4275.17, "end_seconds": 4275.61, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000967", "start_seconds": 4277.13, "end_seconds": 4278.17, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We hired..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000968", "start_seconds": 4278.17, "end_seconds": 4278.47, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Ano yung" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000969", "start_seconds": 4278.47, "end_seconds": 4279.95, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "plano niyong" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000970", "start_seconds": 4279.95, "end_seconds": 4282.11, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "targeted office?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000971", "start_seconds": 4282.35, "end_seconds": 4283.59, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Very near the Senate, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000972", "start_seconds": 4283.73, "end_seconds": 4284.51, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Very near the Senate." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000973", "start_seconds": 4284.89, "end_seconds": 4288.01, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Because there's a glut of offices, of buildings here." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000974", "start_seconds": 4288.41, "end_seconds": 4289.73, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And the prices are very reasonable." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000975", "start_seconds": 4289.73, "end_seconds": 4290.73, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's actually..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000976", "start_seconds": 4291.33, "end_seconds": 4294.05, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's cheaper to buy a building now than to construct one." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000977", "start_seconds": 4294.41, "end_seconds": 4295.45, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "That's why it's the timing." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000978", "start_seconds": 4295.63, "end_seconds": 4296.35, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I was always..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000979", "start_seconds": 4296.35, "end_seconds": 4301.41, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I was telling Secretary Vida, who's a colleague of mine, a very good friend of mine," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000980", "start_seconds": 4301.87, "end_seconds": 4306.53, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "that probably the DOJ was able to lead the way in purchasing a building." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000981", "start_seconds": 4307.17, "end_seconds": 4310.97, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But the same should go for the rest of government now that needs office space" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000982", "start_seconds": 4310.97, "end_seconds": 4313.67, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "to stop constructing buildings and just buy them." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000983", "start_seconds": 4314.07, "end_seconds": 4315.01, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Because it's much cheaper." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000984", "start_seconds": 4315.37, "end_seconds": 4320.77, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And of course, there will be so much less corruption if we buy a finished product." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000985", "start_seconds": 4321.33, "end_seconds": 4323.79, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "That's publicly known to people." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000986", "start_seconds": 4324.43, "end_seconds": 4330.33, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "So, there will be no more tragedies like our integration building here in Macapagal." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000987", "start_seconds": 4330.47, "end_seconds": 4331.41, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Ten years in the making." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000988", "start_seconds": 4331.8099999999995, "end_seconds": 4333.43, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Eight years in the making, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000989", "start_seconds": 4333.89, "end_seconds": 4338.49, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But at a great expense, with a driveway that does not fit any SUV." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000990", "start_seconds": 4339.15, "end_seconds": 4340.85, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It will only fit a Wigo, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000991", "start_seconds": 4340.91, "end_seconds": 4342.33, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Mr. Chairman, and..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000992", "start_seconds": 4343.07, "end_seconds": 4347.59, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Kasi pagka kayo nagpagawa ng building, ang implementing agency is DPWH." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000993", "start_seconds": 4348.33, "end_seconds": 4349.53, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "So, again, that's bad news." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000994", "start_seconds": 4351.33, "end_seconds": 4352.57, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "That's what David wants." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000995", "start_seconds": 4353.51, "end_seconds": 4354.05, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000996", "start_seconds": 4354.59, "end_seconds": 4356.23, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Mr. Chairman, if I may..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000997", "start_seconds": 4356.23, "end_seconds": 4357.15, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yes, Senator Lackson." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000998", "start_seconds": 4357.27, "end_seconds": 4358.27, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "It came to my mind." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000999", "start_seconds": 4358.43, "end_seconds": 4362.33, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Inisip ko lang, I was just mulling over the idea na" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001000", "start_seconds": 4363.11, "end_seconds": 4365.59, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "And I need the legal opinion of the ombudsman here." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001001", "start_seconds": 4366.51, "end_seconds": 4371.23, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Kasi ang bill naman is amendment ng Ombudsman Act, di ba?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001002", "start_seconds": 4371.23, "end_seconds": 4376.25, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "So pwedeng i-incorporate doon na kung meron kayong ma-gain ang government," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001003", "start_seconds": 4376.43, "end_seconds": 4378.65, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "national government or treasury, sa restitution," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001004", "start_seconds": 4379.23, "end_seconds": 4381.23, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "baka parang akin to the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001005", "start_seconds": 4381.33, "end_seconds": 4382.49, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Customs modernization." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001006", "start_seconds": 4383.1900000000005, "end_seconds": 4388.73, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Part of that would be earmarked para sa madagdagan yung budget." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001007", "start_seconds": 4389.51, "end_seconds": 4394.47, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "This will be your non-tax revenue, if I may say so." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001008", "start_seconds": 4394.99, "end_seconds": 4396.73, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "So, probably during the..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001009", "start_seconds": 4396.73, "end_seconds": 4400.87, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Anyway, magkakomite hearing naman, mag-a-attend naman si Assistant Ombudsman Ellie." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001010", "start_seconds": 4401.21, "end_seconds": 4404.45, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "So pwedeng i-incorporate yung provision na ganoon na" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001011", "start_seconds": 4405.47, "end_seconds": 4410.39, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Maybe 10 or 20 percent of whatever amount is restituted" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001012", "start_seconds": 4410.39, "end_seconds": 4411.3099999999995, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "should be incorporated." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001013", "start_seconds": 4411.33, "end_seconds": 4413.59, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "And it's covered by law." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001014", "start_seconds": 4413.73, "end_seconds": 4417.95, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "So hindi pwedeng galawin na yung part of the restituted amount." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001015", "start_seconds": 4418.79, "end_seconds": 4419.73, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It looks very appreciated." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001016", "start_seconds": 4420.63, "end_seconds": 4422.13, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We appreciate that very much." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001017", "start_seconds": 4422.23, "end_seconds": 4422.99, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Wala namang legal infirmity." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001018", "start_seconds": 4423.1900000000005, "end_seconds": 4424.51, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "There's no legal infirmity." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001019", "start_seconds": 4424.99, "end_seconds": 4425.65, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001020", "start_seconds": 4425.71, "end_seconds": 4426.43, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001021", "start_seconds": 4427.59, "end_seconds": 4428.67, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yes, Mr. President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001022", "start_seconds": 4428.85, "end_seconds": 4432.53, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Related to that, I hope what happened to the Supreme Court will not happen to you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001023", "start_seconds": 4433.01, "end_seconds": 4440.21, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Because upon approval of the Supreme Court Judiciary Marshal," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001024", "start_seconds": 4440.21, "end_seconds": 4440.3099999999995, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "the Supreme Court Judiciary Marshal," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001025", "start_seconds": 4441.33, "end_seconds": 4442.95, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "it took effect in 2022." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001026", "start_seconds": 4443.61, "end_seconds": 4450.3099999999995, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "But they only appointed the Chief Marshal in 2025." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001027", "start_seconds": 4451.25, "end_seconds": 4452.37, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Three years after." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001028", "start_seconds": 4452.89, "end_seconds": 4457.95, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "But I think you have already in mind someone to take that post." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001029", "start_seconds": 4458.89, "end_seconds": 4459.41, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Sure." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001030", "start_seconds": 4459.77, "end_seconds": 4463.39, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Not only that, but we are learning also from the Supreme Court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001031", "start_seconds": 4463.39, "end_seconds": 4466.49, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "on what happened to them and why everything took so long." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001032", "start_seconds": 4466.99, "end_seconds": 4469.03, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "So, I think we can actually dispatch on this one, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001033", "start_seconds": 4469.11, "end_seconds": 4469.87, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "All right. Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001034", "start_seconds": 4469.87, "end_seconds": 4472.85, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Likewise, during these budget hearings," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001035", "start_seconds": 4473.17, "end_seconds": 4476.91, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "because of the reforms that were instituted," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001036", "start_seconds": 4477.05, "end_seconds": 4480.17, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "started by our Senate President, Win Gatchalian, last year," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001037", "start_seconds": 4480.49, "end_seconds": 4483.59, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "we're encouraging participation from the watchdogs" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001038", "start_seconds": 4483.59, "end_seconds": 4485.79, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and civil society organizations." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001039", "start_seconds": 4486.09, "end_seconds": 4490.73, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So merong mga konting katanungan from the People?s Budget Coalition." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001040", "start_seconds": 4492.71, "end_seconds": 4496.29, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "How many fact-finding investigations, case build-ups," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001041", "start_seconds": 4496.29, "end_seconds": 4498.99, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and lifestyle checks were separately opened, completed," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001042", "start_seconds": 4498.99, "end_seconds": 4500.01, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and pending in 2025" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001043", "start_seconds": 4500.0, "end_seconds": 4501.68, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and 2026." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001044", "start_seconds": 4502.62, "end_seconds": 4507.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Likewise, how many lifestyle checks led to administrative cases," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001045", "start_seconds": 4507.16, "end_seconds": 4509.64, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "criminal charges, forfeiture proceedings, dismissals," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001046", "start_seconds": 4510.08, "end_seconds": 4511.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "or recovery of assets?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001047", "start_seconds": 4512.6, "end_seconds": 4515.84, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And how many senior officials or cases involving large amounts?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001048", "start_seconds": 4516.62, "end_seconds": 4517.64, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Anybody can answer." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001049", "start_seconds": 4517.98, "end_seconds": 4522.94, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Sir, we have a table here that shows our case buildup" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001050", "start_seconds": 4522.94, "end_seconds": 4529.08, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "beginning of January 2025 for the balance, 131." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001051", "start_seconds": 4529.08, "end_seconds": 4537.14, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Fact-finding, we're doing 1,224 now, for a total of 1,355." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001052", "start_seconds": 4537.92, "end_seconds": 4542.04, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "So the newly instituted case buildup, fact-finding," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001053", "start_seconds": 4542.82, "end_seconds": 4551.72, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and lifestyle checks for 2025 were 29, 667, and 696, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001054", "start_seconds": 4553.54, "end_seconds": 4558.72, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "So completely disposed in 2025 were 99 case buildup," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001055", "start_seconds": 4559.08, "end_seconds": 4565.32, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "1,030 lifestyle checks, for a total of 1,129." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001056", "start_seconds": 4567.5, "end_seconds": 4569.18, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "So we have the figures here, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001057", "start_seconds": 4569.5, "end_seconds": 4570.68, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We can submit this to the committee." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001058", "start_seconds": 4570.92, "end_seconds": 4571.52, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Okay, thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001059", "start_seconds": 4572.2, "end_seconds": 4576.64, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Likewise, since Ombudsman is mandated to prioritize cases involving high-ranking officials," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001060", "start_seconds": 4577.34, "end_seconds": 4579.18, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "grave offenses, and large sums," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001061", "start_seconds": 4579.72, "end_seconds": 4585.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "what percentage of investigative resources is devoted to these priority cases?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001062", "start_seconds": 4585.02, "end_seconds": 4588.1, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "How many such cases were filed and resolved annually?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001063", "start_seconds": 4589.08, "end_seconds": 4593.44, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Doon sa mga high-ranking officials, grave offenses?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001064", "start_seconds": 4619.5, "end_seconds": 4633.14, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Your Honor, we will not be able to tally that, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001065", "start_seconds": 4633.22, "end_seconds": 4635.52, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "but we will submit, we will comply with the committee, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001066", "start_seconds": 4635.56, "end_seconds": 4637.32, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Okay, we'll just wait for the submission." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001067", "start_seconds": 4638.1, "end_seconds": 4641.36, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Likewise, can you update the committee on how many officials were dismissed," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001068", "start_seconds": 4641.58, "end_seconds": 4643.86, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "suspended, sama na rin siguro ito sa report," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001069", "start_seconds": 4644.32, "end_seconds": 4647.66, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "suspended, fined, reprimanded, or otherwise sanctioned?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001070", "start_seconds": 4647.66, "end_seconds": 4651.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "How many Ombudsman decisions were actually implemented by agencies?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001071", "start_seconds": 4652.12, "end_seconds": 4653.3, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So this is it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001072", "start_seconds": 4653.76, "end_seconds": 4655.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Or how many were overturned?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001073", "start_seconds": 4655.24, "end_seconds": 4656.24, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Or modified or appealed?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001074", "start_seconds": 4656.32, "end_seconds": 4657.8, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Probably can include this also in the report." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001075", "start_seconds": 4657.8, "end_seconds": 4659.04, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We will submit that, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001076", "start_seconds": 4659.26, "end_seconds": 4660.24, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We will submit to the committee." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001077", "start_seconds": 4660.76, "end_seconds": 4666.04, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And then, what avenues for participation are currently available for civil society organizations" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001078", "start_seconds": 4666.04, "end_seconds": 4669.84, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "to participate in anti-corruption efforts of the Ombudsman?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001079", "start_seconds": 4672.0, "end_seconds": 4677.7, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "How can they participate, ang CSOs, mga civil society organizations and watchdogs?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001080", "start_seconds": 4678.34, "end_seconds": 4681.62, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "They can actually send us complaints, Your Honor, and we will investigate." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001081", "start_seconds": 4681.62, "end_seconds": 4685.68, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We will act with dispatch, with guides to these, with our, being sent to us." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001082", "start_seconds": 4686.52, "end_seconds": 4695.66, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Sometimes the expectation is too high that they will send a statement full of supposed facts," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001083", "start_seconds": 4696.06, "end_seconds": 4698.94, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "but nothing is supported by the statements." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001084", "start_seconds": 4699.52, "end_seconds": 4701.66, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "So it will be a little more complicated." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001085", "start_seconds": 4701.66, "end_seconds": 4706.42, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But if they can submit to us a more comprehensive statement on the wrongdoing," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001086", "start_seconds": 4706.8, "end_seconds": 4708.34, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "then we can act faster, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001087", "start_seconds": 4711.21, "end_seconds": 4713.09, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "There's a question from the media." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001088", "start_seconds": 4713.65, "end_seconds": 4717.01, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Bakit kailangan ng Ombudsman ng 54 million na confidential funds?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001089", "start_seconds": 4718.57, "end_seconds": 4722.91, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Nung panahon ni Martires, under 2024, 2025, 1 million lang daw," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001090", "start_seconds": 4723.25, "end_seconds": 4727.01, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "pero pinapa-realign in other items, no." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001091", "start_seconds": 4727.55, "end_seconds": 4729.39, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So it's from the media." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001092", "start_seconds": 4729.97, "end_seconds": 4735.92, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I think we're more aggressive in pursuing investigations, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001093", "start_seconds": 4736.04, "end_seconds": 4743.3, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and purchasing information and other things that requires confidential funds to be utilized, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001094", "start_seconds": 4744.0, "end_seconds": 4744.98, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Kaya pala natutulog noon." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001095", "start_seconds": 4746.44, "end_seconds": 4747.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Sige, President Pro Tempore." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001096", "start_seconds": 4747.9, "end_seconds": 4749.9, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Mr. Chairman, that's it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001097", "start_seconds": 4749.94, "end_seconds": 4755.24, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "A drop in the bucket kung tutuusin for what the work of the Ombudsman is doing." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001098", "start_seconds": 4755.68, "end_seconds": 4763.58, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "As a matter of fact, there was one office, one office of government that had 125 million five times," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001099", "start_seconds": 4764.1, "end_seconds": 4766.72, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "for confidential funds, hindi ba?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001100", "start_seconds": 4768.04, "end_seconds": 4773.4, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And definitely, as we mentioned, in these budget hearings," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001101", "start_seconds": 4773.4, "end_seconds": 4779.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "we will confine confidential funds" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001102", "start_seconds": 4779.82, "end_seconds": 4786.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "only to law enforcement agencies, investigative agencies and those connected with national security." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001103", "start_seconds": 4786.82, "end_seconds": 4793.08, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And of course, the office of the Ombudsman, in its drive against corruption, will be one of them." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001104", "start_seconds": 4793.08, "end_seconds": 4799.32, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And I think 54 million will be very much justified, no. Mababa na nga yun compared to 1 million noon." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001105", "start_seconds": 4799.32, "end_seconds": 4803.1, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Kaya sabi ko nga hindi ko alam kung nagtatrabaho noon with 1 million," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001106", "start_seconds": 4803.1, "end_seconds": 4805.1, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "whatever ano kung mabibili noon." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001107", "start_seconds": 4805.1, "end_seconds": 4808.66, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Probably, our Senate President, you have some questions?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001108", "start_seconds": 4808.66, "end_seconds": 4809.66, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001109", "start_seconds": 4809.66, "end_seconds": 4820.26, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I do agree na yung 54 million is minuscule compared to the gravity of the corruption cases that we are embroiled in." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001110", "start_seconds": 4820.26, "end_seconds": 4825.86, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And the Ombudsman is tasked to resolve all of those corruption issues." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001111", "start_seconds": 4825.86, "end_seconds": 4834.76, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Admittedly, kailangan talaga ng legitimate purchase of information" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001112", "start_seconds": 4834.76, "end_seconds": 4837.5, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "para ma-establish yung evidence," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001113", "start_seconds": 4837.5, "end_seconds": 4839.5, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "lalong lumakas yung kaso at makasuhan natin" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001114", "start_seconds": 4839.66, "end_seconds": 4840.66, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "at manalo tayo sa pagkaso" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001115", "start_seconds": 4840.66, "end_seconds": 4846.66, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "kasi hindi lang mag-file ng cases kundi dapat manalo tayo doon sa mga kaso." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001116", "start_seconds": 4846.66, "end_seconds": 4856.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So, I think the 51 million is well justified so that we can strengthen the cases that we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001117", "start_seconds": 4856.96, "end_seconds": 4857.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "will file." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001118", "start_seconds": 4857.96, "end_seconds": 4862.18, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I have a few policy questions, Ombudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001119", "start_seconds": 4862.18, "end_seconds": 4866.46, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "This is in relation to a topic that we're discussing here on the floor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001120", "start_seconds": 4866.46, "end_seconds": 4867.46, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "yung barangay term setting." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001121", "start_seconds": 4867.46, "end_seconds": 4868.46, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001123", "start_seconds": 4869.46, "end_seconds": 4873.82, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And kayo, nag-local government rin kayo, Ombudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001124", "start_seconds": 4873.82, "end_seconds": 4879.7, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "May plano kasi habaan yung term to five years." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001125", "start_seconds": 4879.7, "end_seconds": 4884.52, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Kung magaling yung kapitan, walang problema. Pero kung yung kapitan bulok, problema tayo." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001126", "start_seconds": 4884.52, "end_seconds": 4886.14, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Lalo na kung corrupt." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001127", "start_seconds": 4886.14, "end_seconds": 4887.46, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Di ba, Tito Sen?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001128", "start_seconds": 4887.46, "end_seconds": 4890.56, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Yun yung interpolation mo kahapon." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001129", "start_seconds": 4890.56, "end_seconds": 4896.46, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So I would like to pick your brains on your opinion on extending the five-year term." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001130", "start_seconds": 4896.46, "end_seconds": 4897.46, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And then what are the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001131", "start_seconds": 4897.46, "end_seconds": 4898.46, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "recourses" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001132", "start_seconds": 4898.46, "end_seconds": 4904.12, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "that our constituents can go to, especially with the Ombudsman?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001133", "start_seconds": 4904.22, "end_seconds": 4909.88, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Kung may mga kapitan na hindi nagfa-function, hindi nagtatrabaho, corrupt, ano yung mga remedies nila?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001134", "start_seconds": 4910.82, "end_seconds": 4917.56, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Your Honor, the office of the ombudsman can dismiss barangay captains who do not do their job." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001135", "start_seconds": 4918.5, "end_seconds": 4923.92, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And I think all we need is a substantiated complaint, a complaint that people will stand up to," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001136", "start_seconds": 4923.92, "end_seconds": 4929.06, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "will try to prove to us so that we can utilize this power given to us by the law." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001137", "start_seconds": 4930.96, "end_seconds": 4935.34, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And it's just something, it's just probably unfortunate that I have to mention this." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001138", "start_seconds": 4936.22, "end_seconds": 4939.7, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Many of those that we have dismissed in the office of the ombudsman institutionally," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001139", "start_seconds": 4941.1, "end_seconds": 4946.2, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "in many cases, these are talking about many, many cases, were reversed by the Court of Appeals." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001140", "start_seconds": 4947.8, "end_seconds": 4952.18, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "That is a trend, Your Honor, that's known to the whole office of the ombudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001141", "start_seconds": 4952.72, "end_seconds": 4953.9, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's something that..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001142", "start_seconds": 4953.92, "end_seconds": 4959.04, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "That I spoke about to Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001143", "start_seconds": 4959.18, "end_seconds": 4960.98, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I told him about this problem that we have." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001144", "start_seconds": 4961.78, "end_seconds": 4968.46, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Because institutionally, it's very discouraging to be conducting all of these activities" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001145", "start_seconds": 4968.46, "end_seconds": 4976.02, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "only to be reversed by the Court of Appeals decision that came out of nowhere." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001146", "start_seconds": 4976.18, "end_seconds": 4977.88, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I mean, sometimes we feel that way." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001147", "start_seconds": 4978.62, "end_seconds": 4983.12, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And I was actually confronted with that problem as Secretary of Justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001148", "start_seconds": 4983.12, "end_seconds": 4983.52, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "because..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001149", "start_seconds": 4983.92, "end_seconds": 4987.32, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "There was somebody dismissed by the office of the ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001150", "start_seconds": 4987.32, "end_seconds": 4990.28, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "who was..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001151", "start_seconds": 4990.28, "end_seconds": 4992.44, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Which decision was reversed by the Court of Appeals" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001152", "start_seconds": 4992.44, "end_seconds": 4997.96, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and was trying to get back to his office in the NBI." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001153", "start_seconds": 4999.1, "end_seconds": 5003.3, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And I could not honor that kind of logic" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001154", "start_seconds": 5003.3, "end_seconds": 5004.98, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "because he had been dismissed already." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001155", "start_seconds": 5005.76, "end_seconds": 5010.0, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And if you will be reversed in your dismissal," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001156", "start_seconds": 5010.48, "end_seconds": 5012.1, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "what then is the power given to us?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001157", "start_seconds": 5012.1, "end_seconds": 5013.52, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "If that will be the case." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001158", "start_seconds": 5013.92, "end_seconds": 5017.4, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "So, that's one of the dilemmas that we face with the judiciary, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001159", "start_seconds": 5017.8, "end_seconds": 5019.98, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I'm sorry to say, but as a lawyer," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001160", "start_seconds": 5020.34, "end_seconds": 5025.0, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "it's not really common for lawyers to complain about the courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001161", "start_seconds": 5025.66, "end_seconds": 5028.0599999999995, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But sometimes we just have to raise that issue already" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001162", "start_seconds": 5028.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 5033.04, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "because it can be the biggest elephant in the room within our justice system." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001163", "start_seconds": 5033.42, "end_seconds": 5035.52, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "If you talk about foreign investment," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001164", "start_seconds": 5036.16, "end_seconds": 5038.62, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "we have a problem with foreign investment" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001165", "start_seconds": 5038.62, "end_seconds": 5043.5599999999995, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "because there's no certainty that the rules will apply to the judiciary." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001166", "start_seconds": 5043.92, "end_seconds": 5047.96, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's something that has to be dealt with face-to-face by our people" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001167", "start_seconds": 5047.96, "end_seconds": 5051.54, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and by the legislators, by all of us." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001168", "start_seconds": 5052.14, "end_seconds": 5054.88, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's the biggest elephant in the room for this country." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001169", "start_seconds": 5055.64, "end_seconds": 5060.36, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "The judiciary has to be examined closely by everybody in government" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001170", "start_seconds": 5060.36, "end_seconds": 5062.92, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and they themselves should go on a soul-searching" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001171", "start_seconds": 5062.92, "end_seconds": 5065.0, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "so that we can be a better country." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001172", "start_seconds": 5065.22, "end_seconds": 5067.58, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I think that that's one of the problems besetting us right now." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001173", "start_seconds": 5069.77, "end_seconds": 5072.99, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Ombudsman, I really appreciate your..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001174", "start_seconds": 5075.33, "end_seconds": 5079.39, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "being proactive instead of just waiting for cases to be filed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001175", "start_seconds": 5079.39, "end_seconds": 5080.51, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "and aaktuhan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001176", "start_seconds": 5080.95, "end_seconds": 5083.35, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Yung nakikita ko na proactive ngayon ang Ombudsman," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001177", "start_seconds": 5083.41, "end_seconds": 5088.93, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "meaning you go after the issues before it explodes," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001178", "start_seconds": 5089.11, "end_seconds": 5090.99, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "which is the right way to do." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001179", "start_seconds": 5091.67, "end_seconds": 5095.03, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "However, kagaya ng nasabi ng ating mga kasamahan," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001180", "start_seconds": 5095.25, "end_seconds": 5098.61, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "the wheels of justice, kasama dito ang judiciary." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001181", "start_seconds": 5099.49, "end_seconds": 5103.79, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Kanina narinig ko sinabi niyo na it takes on average 15 years in the Sandiganbayan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001182", "start_seconds": 5103.79, "end_seconds": 5105.3099999999995, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "to resolve a case." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001183", "start_seconds": 5105.33, "end_seconds": 5112.05, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Ngayon, the CA also reverses a lot of the decisions you make." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001184", "start_seconds": 5112.99, "end_seconds": 5114.85, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And I'm not blaming them." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001185", "start_seconds": 5115.17, "end_seconds": 5120.03, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I am just saying, yung wheels of justice putol eh." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001186", "start_seconds": 5120.23, "end_seconds": 5121.3099999999995, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Hindi gumugulong eh." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001187", "start_seconds": 5121.51, "end_seconds": 5122.41, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Parang na-stuck up siya." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001188", "start_seconds": 5123.01, "end_seconds": 5128.67, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So what efforts is the ombudsman doing together with the judiciary" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001189", "start_seconds": 5128.67, "end_seconds": 5134.67, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "to resolve this turning of the will of justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001190", "start_seconds": 5134.67, "end_seconds": 5135.3099999999995, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "to make it more effective?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001191", "start_seconds": 5135.33, "end_seconds": 5141.8099999999995, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "More efficient, faster, and also to make it just for our constituents?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001192", "start_seconds": 5142.11, "end_seconds": 5144.21, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Kasi kung ang Ombudsman proactive," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001193", "start_seconds": 5144.87, "end_seconds": 5145.83, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "kabilang banda naman hindi," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001194", "start_seconds": 5146.83, "end_seconds": 5148.55, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "sayang, sayang yung efforts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001195", "start_seconds": 5149.27, "end_seconds": 5155.43, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Well, that's something that I looked at when I was Secretary of Justice, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001196", "start_seconds": 5156.13, "end_seconds": 5157.83, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "When I was the Secretary of Justice," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001197", "start_seconds": 5157.97, "end_seconds": 5160.91, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "we had this Justice Sector Coordinating Council," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001198", "start_seconds": 5160.91, "end_seconds": 5164.63, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "which involved the courts, the Department of Justice," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001199", "start_seconds": 5165.33, "end_seconds": 5167.65, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and the Department of Interior and Local Government" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001200", "start_seconds": 5167.65, "end_seconds": 5169.99, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "so that we could coordinate our efforts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001201", "start_seconds": 5170.89, "end_seconds": 5175.47, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But actually, that was a program sponsored by the European Union." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001202", "start_seconds": 5175.8099999999995, "end_seconds": 5177.8099999999995, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "They were the ones that funded that program." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001203", "start_seconds": 5178.47, "end_seconds": 5182.03, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Probably, we need one that will include the ombudsman, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001204", "start_seconds": 5182.63, "end_seconds": 5185.01, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "so that the wills of justice will grind faster." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001205", "start_seconds": 5185.8099999999995, "end_seconds": 5189.85, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And if you ask me, I mean, if we look back in history," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001206", "start_seconds": 5189.85, "end_seconds": 5193.75, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I think I was in law school when EDSA happened." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001207", "start_seconds": 5193.75, "end_seconds": 5196.41, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And if there's one thing that was never touched" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001208", "start_seconds": 5196.41, "end_seconds": 5200.85, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "with all the EDSAs that happened to this country," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001209", "start_seconds": 5201.21, "end_seconds": 5201.97, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "it's the judiciary." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001210", "start_seconds": 5202.99, "end_seconds": 5208.47, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Never has the judiciary accounted for everything that they've been doing." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001211", "start_seconds": 5209.21, "end_seconds": 5211.55, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It is something that we have to examine as a country." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001212", "start_seconds": 5212.15, "end_seconds": 5219.51, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Because when businessmen come in to invest and create jobs" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001213", "start_seconds": 5219.51, "end_seconds": 5221.75, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and give progress to the country," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001214", "start_seconds": 5222.1900000000005, "end_seconds": 5223.71, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "when a case is thrown," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001215", "start_seconds": 5223.75, "end_seconds": 5226.41, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and a monkey wrench is thrown into the business," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001216", "start_seconds": 5226.71, "end_seconds": 5229.85, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "there's no certainty that the case will be finished" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001217", "start_seconds": 5229.85, "end_seconds": 5231.21, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "within a certain amount of time." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001218", "start_seconds": 5231.77, "end_seconds": 5235.09, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It is something that has to be addressed also by our people," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001219", "start_seconds": 5235.3099999999995, "end_seconds": 5237.73, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "by the senior members of the Supreme Court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001220", "start_seconds": 5237.73, "end_seconds": 5241.57, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "about how fast can justice roll, the wills of justice roll." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001221", "start_seconds": 5242.37, "end_seconds": 5247.43, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's actually a problem that has been there for the longest time." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001222", "start_seconds": 5247.95, "end_seconds": 5250.21, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But it has to be said openly." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001223", "start_seconds": 5250.49, "end_seconds": 5252.11, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I'm daring to do this, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001224", "start_seconds": 5252.11, "end_seconds": 5253.65, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "because I have no more." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001225", "start_seconds": 5253.75, "end_seconds": 5254.15, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I have no more aspirations." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001226", "start_seconds": 5254.45, "end_seconds": 5258.99, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "This is the job I want for myself and for the country" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001227", "start_seconds": 5258.99, "end_seconds": 5261.05, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "to be able to finish this job, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001228", "start_seconds": 5261.73, "end_seconds": 5265.21, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And that's why things that have been left unsaid" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001229", "start_seconds": 5265.21, "end_seconds": 5268.17, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "are being said now because it has to happen." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001230", "start_seconds": 5268.63, "end_seconds": 5271.77, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "If we're able to cure our justice system" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001231", "start_seconds": 5271.77, "end_seconds": 5273.33, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and make it function properly," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001232", "start_seconds": 5273.75, "end_seconds": 5275.59, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "we will be a much better country, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001233", "start_seconds": 5275.77, "end_seconds": 5277.53, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We will be a much, much better country." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001234", "start_seconds": 5278.67, "end_seconds": 5281.1900000000005, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "With your coordination, what's the feedback?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001235", "start_seconds": 5281.1900000000005, "end_seconds": 5282.65, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I heard you say na meron" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001236", "start_seconds": 5282.65, "end_seconds": 5283.1900000000005, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "you have a..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001237", "start_seconds": 5283.75, "end_seconds": 5285.75, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Coordination or that committee." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001238", "start_seconds": 5286.43, "end_seconds": 5288.03, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Now, what's the feedback from the judiciary?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001239", "start_seconds": 5288.43, "end_seconds": 5288.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Are they all..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001240", "start_seconds": 5288.77, "end_seconds": 5291.11, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Well, I usually speak to my classmates." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001241", "start_seconds": 5291.21, "end_seconds": 5292.43, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I usually speak to my classmates," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001242", "start_seconds": 5292.79, "end_seconds": 5294.91, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001243", "start_seconds": 5295.47, "end_seconds": 5298.1900000000005, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Of course, sometimes he questions me about speaking out" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001244", "start_seconds": 5298.1900000000005, "end_seconds": 5300.09, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "about these things that I'm saying." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001245", "start_seconds": 5300.71, "end_seconds": 5301.73, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But it has to be said." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001246", "start_seconds": 5302.41, "end_seconds": 5303.79, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We cannot hold this back anymore." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001247", "start_seconds": 5304.01, "end_seconds": 5307.93, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I mean, how many times do you have in your life" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001248", "start_seconds": 5307.93, "end_seconds": 5308.99, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "to serve as ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001249", "start_seconds": 5308.99, "end_seconds": 5312.93, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and give your critique of what's happening in society?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001250", "start_seconds": 5313.05, "end_seconds": 5313.63, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Because it is a role..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001251", "start_seconds": 5313.63, "end_seconds": 5314.79, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It is a role that was given to us." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001252", "start_seconds": 5316.03, "end_seconds": 5319.15, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's something that probably I may be cautioned," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001253", "start_seconds": 5319.1900000000005, "end_seconds": 5320.93, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "but the message arrives." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001254", "start_seconds": 5321.57, "end_seconds": 5326.13, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And I'm sure that I have distressed our Chief Justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001255", "start_seconds": 5326.13, "end_seconds": 5327.77, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "many times with my remarks." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001256", "start_seconds": 5328.33, "end_seconds": 5329.33, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But it has to happen." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001257", "start_seconds": 5329.47, "end_seconds": 5330.71, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It has to be done, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001258", "start_seconds": 5331.07, "end_seconds": 5333.83, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I'm doing this at great risk probably to many lawyers." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001259", "start_seconds": 5334.37, "end_seconds": 5337.37, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "They will not even think about doing something like this." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001260", "start_seconds": 5337.71, "end_seconds": 5339.71, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But I think I've arrived at the point" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001261", "start_seconds": 5339.71, "end_seconds": 5342.73, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "where this has to be said properly, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001262", "start_seconds": 5342.75, "end_seconds": 5343.45, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "in order to make it happen." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001263", "start_seconds": 5343.45, "end_seconds": 5344.95, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "In open court, in open session," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001264", "start_seconds": 5345.8099999999995, "end_seconds": 5350.55, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "so that people will know what ails us" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001265", "start_seconds": 5350.55, "end_seconds": 5352.77, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and that there is a light at the end of the tunnel" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001266", "start_seconds": 5352.77, "end_seconds": 5354.11, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "if we really look at it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001267", "start_seconds": 5354.6900000000005, "end_seconds": 5356.07, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And that is one of them, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001268", "start_seconds": 5356.1900000000005, "end_seconds": 5357.73, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "is to be able to correct" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001269", "start_seconds": 5357.73, "end_seconds": 5361.57, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and then make efficient the wheels of justice, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001270", "start_seconds": 5363.13, "end_seconds": 5364.87, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I support that, Ombudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001271", "start_seconds": 5365.17, "end_seconds": 5371.67, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And like mga ano lang, in the ordinary day-to-day activities" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001272", "start_seconds": 5372.35, "end_seconds": 5373.05, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "of our country," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001273", "start_seconds": 5373.45, "end_seconds": 5373.95, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "our constituents," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001274", "start_seconds": 5374.77, "end_seconds": 5376.67, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "especially in public service," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001275", "start_seconds": 5378.01, "end_seconds": 5379.85, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "kagaya po sa mga kapitan," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001276", "start_seconds": 5380.59, "end_seconds": 5382.09, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "iyan diretso sa tao iyan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001277", "start_seconds": 5382.83, "end_seconds": 5385.57, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And pag nagsumbong ang tao sa Ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001278", "start_seconds": 5385.57, "end_seconds": 5388.07, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "or sa ibang mga government agencies," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001279", "start_seconds": 5388.1900000000005, "end_seconds": 5390.97, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "kung hindi nag-function yung accountability mechanism natin," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001280", "start_seconds": 5391.61, "end_seconds": 5395.23, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "when I say accountability, lahat ito," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001281", "start_seconds": 5395.41, "end_seconds": 5397.45, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "from the Ombudsman to the judiciary," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001282", "start_seconds": 5398.91, "end_seconds": 5399.45, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "hindi naman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001283", "start_seconds": 5400.0, "end_seconds": 5403.94, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "nadedehado yung respondent" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001284", "start_seconds": 5403.94, "end_seconds": 5405.18, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "o yung nakusahan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001285", "start_seconds": 5405.18, "end_seconds": 5407.14, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Nadedehado yung taong bayan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001286", "start_seconds": 5407.54, "end_seconds": 5409.1, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Sila ang nadedehado dito." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001287", "start_seconds": 5409.68, "end_seconds": 5411.26, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Kaya I really support" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001288", "start_seconds": 5411.26, "end_seconds": 5413.62, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "making our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001289", "start_seconds": 5413.62, "end_seconds": 5414.94, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "wills of justice efficient." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001290", "start_seconds": 5415.22, "end_seconds": 5417.34, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And that's what hopefully we can" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001291", "start_seconds": 5417.34, "end_seconds": 5419.36, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "contribute" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001292", "start_seconds": 5419.36, "end_seconds": 5421.04, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "during the budget season." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001293", "start_seconds": 5421.46, "end_seconds": 5423.42, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "In all aspects, in all agencies" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001294", "start_seconds": 5423.42, "end_seconds": 5423.98, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "as well." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001295", "start_seconds": 5425.08, "end_seconds": 5426.02, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Thank you, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001296", "start_seconds": 5426.42, "end_seconds": 5429.18, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I have a few items in the budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001297", "start_seconds": 5429.18, "end_seconds": 5431.5, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "that I want to ask." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001298", "start_seconds": 5433.2, "end_seconds": 5435.34, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I asked this last year, but I" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001299", "start_seconds": 5435.34, "end_seconds": 5437.42, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "saw an increase in" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001300", "start_seconds": 5437.42, "end_seconds": 5439.4, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "the development and implementation" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001301", "start_seconds": 5439.4, "end_seconds": 5441.74, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "of integrity promotion programs" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001302", "start_seconds": 5441.74, "end_seconds": 5443.58, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "to generate a critical" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001303", "start_seconds": 5443.58, "end_seconds": 5445.76, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "mass of anti-corruption advocates" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001304", "start_seconds": 5445.76, "end_seconds": 5447.6, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "in the campaign against" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001305", "start_seconds": 5447.6, "end_seconds": 5448.9, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "official abuse." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001306", "start_seconds": 5449.52, "end_seconds": 5452.14, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "From 44 million to 148" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001307", "start_seconds": 5452.14, "end_seconds": 5452.48, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "million." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001308", "start_seconds": 5454.28, "end_seconds": 5455.54, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Can you give us" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001309", "start_seconds": 5455.54, "end_seconds": 5458.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "a preview on" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001310", "start_seconds": 5458.96, "end_seconds": 5460.9, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "why this program" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001311", "start_seconds": 5460.9, "end_seconds": 5462.44, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "increased? And I support this" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001312", "start_seconds": 5462.44, "end_seconds": 5464.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "because obviously" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001313", "start_seconds": 5464.2, "end_seconds": 5467.18, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "fighting corruption" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001314", "start_seconds": 5467.18, "end_seconds": 5469.18, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "comes with promoting" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001315", "start_seconds": 5469.18, "end_seconds": 5470.22, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "anti-corruption." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001316", "start_seconds": 5470.82, "end_seconds": 5472.92, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Making sure that if we can promote it" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001317", "start_seconds": 5472.92, "end_seconds": 5474.46, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "to our students, it's better" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001318", "start_seconds": 5474.46, "end_seconds": 5476.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "for them to know the consequences" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001319", "start_seconds": 5477.6, "end_seconds": 5479.74, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "before they enter the government service." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001320", "start_seconds": 5480.0, "end_seconds": 5480.42, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And also" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001321", "start_seconds": 5480.42, "end_seconds": 5482.48, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "the noble" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001322", "start_seconds": 5482.48, "end_seconds": 5484.86, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "philosophy" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001323", "start_seconds": 5484.86, "end_seconds": 5486.48, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "of going into public service." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001324", "start_seconds": 5486.48, "end_seconds": 5487.5, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So, I just want to get" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001325", "start_seconds": 5487.5, "end_seconds": 5488.74, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "feedback." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001326", "start_seconds": 5488.96, "end_seconds": 5490.8, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "On why this program increased" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001327", "start_seconds": 5490.8, "end_seconds": 5492.8, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "by almost three-folds." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001328", "start_seconds": 5493.3, "end_seconds": 5495.66, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Your Honor, in the Ombudsman's office," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001329", "start_seconds": 5495.66, "end_seconds": 5496.86, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "we have a small auditorium" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001330", "start_seconds": 5497.54, "end_seconds": 5498.98, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "where we entertain" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001331", "start_seconds": 5499.9, "end_seconds": 5502.0, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "students and advocates" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001332", "start_seconds": 5502.0, "end_seconds": 5503.2, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "of good governance" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001333", "start_seconds": 5503.84, "end_seconds": 5505.94, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "to give us a visit so that we can" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001334", "start_seconds": 5505.94, "end_seconds": 5507.58, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "have a dialogue and they can observe" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001335", "start_seconds": 5508.1, "end_seconds": 5509.62, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "the goings-on in our office." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001336", "start_seconds": 5510.22, "end_seconds": 5512.54, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And we deem this to be a very effective" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001337", "start_seconds": 5512.54, "end_seconds": 5513.94, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "tool, Your Honor, especially" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001338", "start_seconds": 5514.4, "end_seconds": 5516.1, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "with young people being brought in." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001339", "start_seconds": 5517.1, "end_seconds": 5518.96, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "People who are in high" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001340", "start_seconds": 5518.96, "end_seconds": 5522.3, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "school, whose minds" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001341", "start_seconds": 5522.3, "end_seconds": 5525.14, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "who are in their formative years," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001342", "start_seconds": 5525.14, "end_seconds": 5527.2, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "can be able to absorb the ideas" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001343", "start_seconds": 5527.2, "end_seconds": 5530.66, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "of fighting corruption very early." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001344", "start_seconds": 5530.66, "end_seconds": 5532.94, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It has to start, I mean," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001345", "start_seconds": 5532.94, "end_seconds": 5534.94, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Your Honor, if we can do this as a program" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001346", "start_seconds": 5534.94, "end_seconds": 5537.58, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "in our educational system," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001347", "start_seconds": 5537.58, "end_seconds": 5540.98, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I think we would really be a better country." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001348", "start_seconds": 5540.98, "end_seconds": 5543.44, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's something that has to start from the youth." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001349", "start_seconds": 5543.44, "end_seconds": 5547.58, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's like when we marvel at the Japanese children" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001350", "start_seconds": 5547.58, "end_seconds": 5548.96, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "walking to school," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001351", "start_seconds": 5548.96, "end_seconds": 5553.04, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "unaccompanied by parents without any assistance," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001352", "start_seconds": 5553.04, "end_seconds": 5555.5, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "because the culture has been created to do that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001353", "start_seconds": 5555.5, "end_seconds": 5557.74, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's something that we can create in our country" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001354", "start_seconds": 5557.74, "end_seconds": 5562.9, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "to start them young in trying to fight corruption" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001355", "start_seconds": 5562.9, "end_seconds": 5565.78, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and to be able to know the concept of corruption" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001356", "start_seconds": 5565.78, "end_seconds": 5567.68, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "as a bad concept, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001357", "start_seconds": 5568.94, "end_seconds": 5570.98, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Thank you for that, Ombudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001358", "start_seconds": 5570.98, "end_seconds": 5572.54, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I really support that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001359", "start_seconds": 5572.54, "end_seconds": 5576.04, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "If we can open the eyes and minds of our students" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001360", "start_seconds": 5576.04, "end_seconds": 5578.84, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "in not being in integrity," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001361", "start_seconds": 5578.96, "end_seconds": 5579.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "and fighting corruption," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001362", "start_seconds": 5579.96, "end_seconds": 5584.08, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I think that is the best direction." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001363", "start_seconds": 5584.08, "end_seconds": 5589.28, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And is this program directed towards that?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001364", "start_seconds": 5589.28, "end_seconds": 5591.08, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Yung mga sa mga bata?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001365", "start_seconds": 5591.08, "end_seconds": 5594.2, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001366", "start_seconds": 5594.2, "end_seconds": 5596.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Actually, meron akong anecdote." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001367", "start_seconds": 5596.2, "end_seconds": 5597.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Nakwento ko ito sa ating chairman eh." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001368", "start_seconds": 5597.96, "end_seconds": 5601.6, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Pag may mga lumalapit sa akin" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001369", "start_seconds": 5601.6, "end_seconds": 5605.24, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "humihingi ng job recommendation sa gobyerno," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001370", "start_seconds": 5605.24, "end_seconds": 5608.08, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "ang pinipili nila kaagad customs." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001371", "start_seconds": 5608.08, "end_seconds": 5608.88, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "No." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001372", "start_seconds": 5608.88, "end_seconds": 5609.44, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Halos lahat." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001373", "start_seconds": 5609.44, "end_seconds": 5610.08, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Sabi ko sa inyo, halos lahat" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001374", "start_seconds": 5610.08, "end_seconds": 5614.12, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "ng recommendation customs." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001375", "start_seconds": 5614.12, "end_seconds": 5616.4, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "But the recommendation is for the wrong reason." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001376", "start_seconds": 5616.4, "end_seconds": 5622.36, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And I made that example because itong mga batang ito na naghahanap ng trabaho," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001377", "start_seconds": 5622.36, "end_seconds": 5624.16, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "wrong reasons yung kanilang iniisip." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001378", "start_seconds": 5624.16, "end_seconds": 5625.0, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Bakit customs?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001379", "start_seconds": 5625.0, "end_seconds": 5631.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Bakit hindi sa DOST or sa ibang mga agencies?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001380", "start_seconds": 5631.2, "end_seconds": 5638.08, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So that's why mas maganda kung maaga pa lang eh natuturuan na natin sila." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001381", "start_seconds": 5638.08, "end_seconds": 5639.36, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Yung kultura nila maiba," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001382", "start_seconds": 5639.36, "end_seconds": 5641.4, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "yung kanilang pag-iisip." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001383", "start_seconds": 5641.4, "end_seconds": 5644.04, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Your Honor, I also encountered the same." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001384", "start_seconds": 5644.04, "end_seconds": 5650.12, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I had the same experience as somebody working for government." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001385", "start_seconds": 5650.12, "end_seconds": 5654.92, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Not only customs, but immigration is another target for many of them." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001386", "start_seconds": 5654.92, "end_seconds": 5657.56, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "LTO is another target for many of them." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001387", "start_seconds": 5657.56, "end_seconds": 5660.76, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "The revenue-generating agencies actually attract a lot of..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001388", "start_seconds": 5660.76, "end_seconds": 5662.36, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And BIR, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001389", "start_seconds": 5662.36, "end_seconds": 5663.4, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "The BIR." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001390", "start_seconds": 5663.4, "end_seconds": 5665.76, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001391", "start_seconds": 5665.76, "end_seconds": 5667.4, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But we know that it's possible" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001392", "start_seconds": 5667.4, "end_seconds": 5668.2, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "to change the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001393", "start_seconds": 5668.2, "end_seconds": 5669.32, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "culture." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001394", "start_seconds": 5669.36, "end_seconds": 5670.52, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001395", "start_seconds": 5670.52, "end_seconds": 5675.4, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I think that we have succeeded to a certain extent in the Bureau of Immigration." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001396", "start_seconds": 5675.4, "end_seconds": 5678.64, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I think we were able to improve it when I was Secretary of Justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001397", "start_seconds": 5678.64, "end_seconds": 5681.68, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "The way that it's run, the way that people behave themselves," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001398", "start_seconds": 5681.68, "end_seconds": 5683.52, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "the way that they comport themselves." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001399", "start_seconds": 5683.52, "end_seconds": 5686.6, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I think it can be done with the proper leadership, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001400", "start_seconds": 5686.6, "end_seconds": 5687.64, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Ambudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001401", "start_seconds": 5687.64, "end_seconds": 5688.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001402", "start_seconds": 5688.96, "end_seconds": 5690.6, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "That's it for me." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001403", "start_seconds": 5690.6, "end_seconds": 5691.48, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001404", "start_seconds": 5691.48, "end_seconds": 5695.0, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Siguro we just have a few questions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001405", "start_seconds": 5695.0, "end_seconds": 5695.88, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Senator Lacson." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001406", "start_seconds": 5695.88, "end_seconds": 5696.2, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001407", "start_seconds": 5696.2, "end_seconds": 5697.48, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Gusto ko lang makuha yung official" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001408", "start_seconds": 5697.48, "end_seconds": 5698.48, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "position ng Ombudsman doon sa..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001409", "start_seconds": 5698.48, "end_seconds": 5699.2, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "kasi nag-pass kami ng" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001410", "start_seconds": 5699.2, "end_seconds": 5700.4, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Judiciary Fiscal Autonomy Act." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001411", "start_seconds": 5700.4, "end_seconds": 5705.08, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Because we passed the Judiciary Fiscal Autonomy Act." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001412", "start_seconds": 5705.08, "end_seconds": 5709.16, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Of course, guaranteed naman talaga sa Constitution yung fiscal autonomy." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001413", "start_seconds": 5709.16, "end_seconds": 5711.2, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Pero ito na-strengthen pa." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001414", "start_seconds": 5711.2, "end_seconds": 5716.08, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "But again, ano yung official position ninyo if we enact a similar law" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001415", "start_seconds": 5716.08, "end_seconds": 5724.39, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "that mirrors the statutory powers, yung fiscal autonomy ng judiciary?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001416", "start_seconds": 5724.39, "end_seconds": 5728.63, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Your Honor, we have to..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001417", "start_seconds": 5728.63, "end_seconds": 5729.95, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I'm in favor of that, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001418", "start_seconds": 5729.95, "end_seconds": 5730.47, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "That the judiciary should" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001419", "start_seconds": 5730.47, "end_seconds": 5730.87, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "have fiscal autonomy." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001420", "start_seconds": 5730.87, "end_seconds": 5732.51, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Before that happens," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001421", "start_seconds": 5732.51, "end_seconds": 5737.99, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But before that happens, we have to be able to ask them the tough questions" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001422", "start_seconds": 5737.99, "end_seconds": 5740.35, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "that have to be answered, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001423", "start_seconds": 5740.35, "end_seconds": 5747.63, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Because if we isolate the judiciary to the point where they become so independent," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001424", "start_seconds": 5747.63, "end_seconds": 5751.35, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "we might be disappointed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001425", "start_seconds": 5751.35, "end_seconds": 5755.43, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We just want things to be right when we start this, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001426", "start_seconds": 5755.43, "end_seconds": 5758.59, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "I was referring to the Ombudsman getting the same statutory protection." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001427", "start_seconds": 5758.59, "end_seconds": 5759.79, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Magkaroon din kayo," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001428", "start_seconds": 5759.79, "end_seconds": 5760.43, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "kasi pagka merong fiscal autonomy," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001429", "start_seconds": 5760.47, "end_seconds": 5768.99, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "yung parang full fiscal autonomy, not just in the implementation," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001430", "start_seconds": 5768.99, "end_seconds": 5771.45, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "but in the proposal." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001431", "start_seconds": 5771.45, "end_seconds": 5777.35, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "But I notice also, kasi in spite of the passage of that law," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001432", "start_seconds": 5777.35, "end_seconds": 5783.19, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "na binibigyan na ng complete fiscal autonomy ang judiciary, nabawasan pa rin sila sa NEP eh." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001433", "start_seconds": 5783.19, "end_seconds": 5786.63, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "What they proposed. That's why that is an issue that I'd like to raise." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001434", "start_seconds": 5786.63, "end_seconds": 5794.49, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Hindi ko lang ni-raise sa DBCC, Mr. President, na bakit nagpasa tayo ng law, may fiscal autonomy," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001435", "start_seconds": 5794.49, "end_seconds": 5801.01, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "meaning sila na yung nagpe-prepare ng kanilang NEP, at bahala na yung Congress" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001436", "start_seconds": 5801.01, "end_seconds": 5808.53, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "kung anong gagawin by our power of review and oversight, at saka yung pag-review ng National" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001437", "start_seconds": 5808.53, "end_seconds": 5809.53, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Expenditure Program." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001438", "start_seconds": 5809.53, "end_seconds": 5811.53, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Kami na magre-review." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001439", "start_seconds": 5811.53, "end_seconds": 5816.61, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Ang nangyari, I think it was slashed by two billion yata," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001440", "start_seconds": 5816.61, "end_seconds": 5819.75, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "o three billion eh, as proposed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001441", "start_seconds": 5819.75, "end_seconds": 5821.59, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "So where's the fiscal autonomy?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001442", "start_seconds": 5821.59, "end_seconds": 5826.65, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "So now I'm asking the official position of the Ombudsman, if the same statutory protection" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001443", "start_seconds": 5826.65, "end_seconds": 5834.67, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "sa inyong fiscal autonomy will be granted, para lang ma-enhance yung inyong integrity, independence" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001444", "start_seconds": 5834.67, "end_seconds": 5837.47, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "pagdating sa budgeting process." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001445", "start_seconds": 5837.47, "end_seconds": 5839.89, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Well, we can use that, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001446", "start_seconds": 5839.89, "end_seconds": 5842.47, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It is going to be good for us if we're able to do that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001447", "start_seconds": 5842.47, "end_seconds": 5846.47, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But of course, we will have to be transparent about everything we do." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001448", "start_seconds": 5846.47, "end_seconds": 5851.61, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Because it's the last moral compass that we have in government, so it has to be transparent," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001449", "start_seconds": 5851.61, "end_seconds": 5852.61, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001450", "start_seconds": 5852.61, "end_seconds": 5853.61, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Mahirap din eh." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001451", "start_seconds": 5853.61, "end_seconds": 5857.15, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Pag walang fiscal autonomy, at least sa implementation, sa paggastos, okay yun eh." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001452", "start_seconds": 5857.15, "end_seconds": 5861.79, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Pero sa proposal, you're at the mercy of the DBCC." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001453", "start_seconds": 5861.79, "end_seconds": 5867.15, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "So tulad niyo, nag-propose kayo ng 12 billion plus, 12.8, something like that," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001454", "start_seconds": 5867.15, "end_seconds": 5870.65, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "pero ang cut 45% eh." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001455", "start_seconds": 5870.65, "end_seconds": 5872.55, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "So yun lang." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001456", "start_seconds": 5872.55, "end_seconds": 5873.55, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "I'm just thinking." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001457", "start_seconds": 5873.55, "end_seconds": 5874.59, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Kasi binigyan na namin," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001458", "start_seconds": 5874.59, "end_seconds": 5875.59, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "I think," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001459", "start_seconds": 5875.59, "end_seconds": 5876.47, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "[unclear]," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001464", "start_seconds": 5880.47, "end_seconds": 5881.47, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "yun ang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001465", "start_seconds": 5881.47, "end_seconds": 5882.47, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "RA number" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001466", "start_seconds": 5882.47, "end_seconds": 5883.47, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "doon sa Judiciary" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001467", "start_seconds": 5883.47, "end_seconds": 5884.47, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Fiscal Autonomy" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001468", "start_seconds": 5884.47, "end_seconds": 5885.47, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Act." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001469", "start_seconds": 5885.47, "end_seconds": 5886.47, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "So ang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001470", "start_seconds": 5886.47, "end_seconds": 5887.47, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "official" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001471", "start_seconds": 5887.47, "end_seconds": 5888.47, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "position ninyo is" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001472", "start_seconds": 5888.47, "end_seconds": 5889.47, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "for that?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001473", "start_seconds": 5889.47, "end_seconds": 5890.47, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Yeah." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001474", "start_seconds": 5890.47, "end_seconds": 5891.47, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001475", "start_seconds": 5891.47, "end_seconds": 5892.47, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001476", "start_seconds": 5892.47, "end_seconds": 5893.47, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001477", "start_seconds": 5893.47, "end_seconds": 5898.39, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Senator Lacson, actually, the Office of the Ombudsman complies itong budget, 2027," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001478", "start_seconds": 5898.39, "end_seconds": 5905.61, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "with the requirement under Section 38 of RA 6770, which states that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001479", "start_seconds": 5905.61, "end_seconds": 5907.61, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "the Office of the Ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001480", "start_seconds": 5907.61, "end_seconds": 5909.93, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "shall enjoy fiscal autonomy" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001481", "start_seconds": 5909.93, "end_seconds": 5911.67, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "in its appropriations. We can just" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001482", "start_seconds": 5911.67, "end_seconds": 5913.47, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "enhance, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001483", "start_seconds": 5913.47, "end_seconds": 5914.55, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "That's already in the Constitution, I think" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001484", "start_seconds": 5914.55, "end_seconds": 5916.73, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Article XI?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001485", "start_seconds": 5918.25, "end_seconds": 5918.97, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "That's correct." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001486", "start_seconds": 5919.35, "end_seconds": 5920.67, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Section 14 ba yan? Anyway," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001487", "start_seconds": 5921.3099999999995, "end_seconds": 5923.93, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "nandiyan na yun, pero ang nire-refer ko" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001488", "start_seconds": 5923.93, "end_seconds": 5924.91, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "sa proposal," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001489", "start_seconds": 5925.6900000000005, "end_seconds": 5927.65, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "kasi yung fiscal autonomy nila is in" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001490", "start_seconds": 5927.65, "end_seconds": 5929.55, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "the implementation, sa execution ng" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001491", "start_seconds": 5929.55, "end_seconds": 5932.15, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "budget, pero hindi covered yung proposal." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001492", "start_seconds": 5932.45, "end_seconds": 5933.65, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "But then I'm wondering," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001493", "start_seconds": 5933.65, "end_seconds": 5935.29, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "meron na nga sa Judiciary," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001494", "start_seconds": 5935.41, "end_seconds": 5937.45, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "kinat pa rin ng DBCC." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001495", "start_seconds": 5938.05, "end_seconds": 5939.67, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "So where's the fiscal autonomy" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001496", "start_seconds": 5939.67, "end_seconds": 5942.25, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "doon sa proposal? Dapat Congress" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001497", "start_seconds": 5942.25, "end_seconds": 5943.05, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "na yung magre-review." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001498", "start_seconds": 5943.65, "end_seconds": 5944.79, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Hindi na kayo dadaan sa" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001499", "start_seconds": 5944.79, "end_seconds": 5947.67, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "budget call. You'll still be" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001500", "start_seconds": 5947.67, "end_seconds": 5949.37, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "reporting to the DBCC" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001501", "start_seconds": 5949.37, "end_seconds": 5951.73, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "for processing or" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001502", "start_seconds": 5951.73, "end_seconds": 5953.55, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "vetting. So, anyway," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001503", "start_seconds": 5953.83, "end_seconds": 5955.73, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "May power naman yung Congress." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001504", "start_seconds": 5955.73, "end_seconds": 5957.79, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Kami naman yung so-called power of the purse," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001505", "start_seconds": 5957.89, "end_seconds": 5958.3099999999995, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "maski hindi..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001506", "start_seconds": 5960.55, "end_seconds": 5961.43, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Kasi hindi naman kami" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001507", "start_seconds": 5961.43, "end_seconds": 5962.23, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "nag-i-implement eh." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001508", "start_seconds": 5963.15, "end_seconds": 5963.59, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Sorry." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001509", "start_seconds": 5963.65, "end_seconds": 5965.33, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Probably, a test would be" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001510", "start_seconds": 5965.33, "end_seconds": 5966.35, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "absorptive capacity." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001511", "start_seconds": 5967.13, "end_seconds": 5969.51, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "The capacity to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001512", "start_seconds": 5969.51, "end_seconds": 5971.51, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "spend the money has to be" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001513", "start_seconds": 5971.51, "end_seconds": 5973.47, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "there when we approve these" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001514", "start_seconds": 5973.47, "end_seconds": 5975.05, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "things. Because I think that's the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001515", "start_seconds": 5975.05, "end_seconds": 5977.3099999999995, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "if I put my mind in the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001516", "start_seconds": 5977.3099999999995, "end_seconds": 5979.01, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "myself in the seat of the executive," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001517", "start_seconds": 5979.59, "end_seconds": 5981.33, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "it's just clearly wasting" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001518", "start_seconds": 5981.33, "end_seconds": 5983.41, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "resources if they ask for too much" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001519", "start_seconds": 5983.41, "end_seconds": 5984.85, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "and they're not able to spend it, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001520", "start_seconds": 5988.72, "end_seconds": 5989.16, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Senator" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001521", "start_seconds": 5989.16, "end_seconds": 5990.72, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "President Pro Temp?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001522", "start_seconds": 5991.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 5992.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Okay na, Senator Lacson?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001523", "start_seconds": 5993.02, "end_seconds": 5994.1, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Senate President Pro Tempore," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001524", "start_seconds": 5994.1, "end_seconds": 5995.42, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "If you're" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001525", "start_seconds": 5995.4400000000005, "end_seconds": 5998.14, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "if you're done with that topic" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001526", "start_seconds": 5998.14, "end_seconds": 6000.3, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "before, before we move" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001527", "start_seconds": 6000.3, "end_seconds": 6002.1, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "for the approval of the budget of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001528", "start_seconds": 6002.1, "end_seconds": 6004.12, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "the Ombudsman, subject, of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001529", "start_seconds": 6004.12, "end_seconds": 6005.46, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "course, to the amendments that are" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001530", "start_seconds": 6005.46, "end_seconds": 6006.46, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "being proposed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001531", "start_seconds": 6007.38, "end_seconds": 6009.12, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Just out of curiosity," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001532", "start_seconds": 6011.16, "end_seconds": 6013.08, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "you might not be aware, but" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001533", "start_seconds": 6013.08, "end_seconds": 6014.46, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "I watch the two of you every" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001534", "start_seconds": 6014.46, "end_seconds": 6015.46, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Saturday." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001535", "start_seconds": 6016.66, "end_seconds": 6018.54, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "And my wife" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001536", "start_seconds": 6018.54, "end_seconds": 6020.52, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "is a fan of your, what" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001537", "start_seconds": 6020.52, "end_seconds": 6022.08, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "do you call that, executive session?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001538", "start_seconds": 6022.08, "end_seconds": 6023.1, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "No." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001539", "start_seconds": 6023.1, "end_seconds": 6025.38, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "One time you were quoted" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001540", "start_seconds": 6025.4400000000005, "end_seconds": 6027.8, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "to say that ang tindi ng corruption" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001541", "start_seconds": 6027.8, "end_seconds": 6029.14, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "sa basura ng LGU." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001542", "start_seconds": 6029.14, "end_seconds": 6039.82, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "How do they do that? I'm interested because" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001543", "start_seconds": 6039.82, "end_seconds": 6042.04, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "I have friends in the LGU" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001544", "start_seconds": 6042.04, "end_seconds": 6044.66, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "that are interested to find out how they" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001545", "start_seconds": 6045.52, "end_seconds": 6045.98, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "will be able to stop it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001546", "start_seconds": 6045.98, "end_seconds": 6047.96, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Mr. Ombudsman?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001547", "start_seconds": 6047.96, "end_seconds": 6051.92, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "or stop it with the Ombudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001548", "start_seconds": 6051.92, "end_seconds": 6054.1, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Your Honor, may mga character tayo sa society" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001549", "start_seconds": 6054.1, "end_seconds": 6057.58, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "na basura king eh. The big haulers are basura kings, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001550", "start_seconds": 6058.08, "end_seconds": 6063.4, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And they're here in Manila, in Metro Manila, in Manila, City of Manila, everywhere." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001551", "start_seconds": 6064.32, "end_seconds": 6072.68, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And the tragedy, Your Honor, is that the work of the DENR is never started or finished" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001552", "start_seconds": 6072.68, "end_seconds": 6077.78, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "because the garbage hauling begins with local government and nothing is followed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001553", "start_seconds": 6079.28, "end_seconds": 6082.28, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Segregation, proper sanitary landfills." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001554", "start_seconds": 6082.28, "end_seconds": 6085.86, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Everything becomes a dump, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001555", "start_seconds": 6086.28, "end_seconds": 6086.96, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "That's the problem." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001556", "start_seconds": 6088.86, "end_seconds": 6095.24, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But probably the DNR should have a bigger hand in it so that things will be better." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001557", "start_seconds": 6095.24, "end_seconds": 6104.22, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "But as long as what they do is to dump the trash in specific places that they are able to contract with," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001558", "start_seconds": 6106.74, "end_seconds": 6108.22, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "it's big money for them, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001559", "start_seconds": 6108.7, "end_seconds": 6113.72, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Because the budgets for basura is so big that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001560", "start_seconds": 6113.72, "end_seconds": 6118.58, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "it can blind a lot of people into just making money out of it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001561", "start_seconds": 6119.1, "end_seconds": 6122.38, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I think that for those who have been in politics for a long time," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001562", "start_seconds": 6122.72, "end_seconds": 6123.88, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "we've seen it happen, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001563", "start_seconds": 6124.46, "end_seconds": 6127.42, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "These basura kings are around the metropolis, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001564", "start_seconds": 6128.7, "end_seconds": 6130.48, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "And also nationwide." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001565", "start_seconds": 6131.4400000000005, "end_seconds": 6132.26, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Nationwide, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001566", "start_seconds": 6134.6, "end_seconds": 6138.6, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "It's actually, when I started talking about this basura," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001567", "start_seconds": 6139.16, "end_seconds": 6143.54, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "I think it touched a lot of raw nerves because we know it to be true, I think." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001568", "start_seconds": 6143.72, "end_seconds": 6144.68, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We know it to be true, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001569", "start_seconds": 6145.5, "end_seconds": 6156.32, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "And would you have anyone in the Ombudsman that would give some local government officials" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001570", "start_seconds": 6156.32, "end_seconds": 6165.4, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "how they are going about the pattern and saan kumikita, saan natataga yung mga kababayan natin?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001571", "start_seconds": 6166.2, "end_seconds": 6168.8, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We will create a special investigative team for this, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001572", "start_seconds": 6169.2, "end_seconds": 6169.8, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We will do it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001573", "start_seconds": 6169.9400000000005, "end_seconds": 6171.96, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "All right. Thank you very much. Thank you for that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001574", "start_seconds": 6171.96, "end_seconds": 6172.62, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001575", "start_seconds": 6172.62, "end_seconds": 6173.6, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Napag-usapan niyong basura." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001576", "start_seconds": 6173.72, "end_seconds": 6175.88, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "I was tempted to inquire about the Taguig." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001577", "start_seconds": 6177.84, "end_seconds": 6180.7, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Baka mapagbintangan ako, nagde-demolition job." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001578", "start_seconds": 6180.76, "end_seconds": 6187.02, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Anyway, we're quietly but surely assisting the Ombudsman in this regard," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001579", "start_seconds": 6187.02, "end_seconds": 6189.74, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "kasi I understand the complexity of the problem," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001580", "start_seconds": 6190.34, "end_seconds": 6192.78, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "yung volume ng mga graft and corruption cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001581", "start_seconds": 6193.14, "end_seconds": 6195.24, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Yung office nga lang namin, Mr. Ombudsman," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001582", "start_seconds": 6196.1, "end_seconds": 6201.28, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "case studies lang ang pinaggugulan namin ng panahon, pero ubos talaga oras namin." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001583", "start_seconds": 6201.28, "end_seconds": 6203.7, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Case studies in Bulacan," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001584", "start_seconds": 6203.84, "end_seconds": 6206.88, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "case studies in Mindoro and in Taguig." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001585", "start_seconds": 6207.08, "end_seconds": 6208.52, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "Hirap na hirap na yung mga staff." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001586", "start_seconds": 6208.52, "end_seconds": 6212.58, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "What more na swarmed by so many cases ang Ombudsman," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001587", "start_seconds": 6212.58, "end_seconds": 6218.7, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "very complex, hindi lang flood control, all sorts of graft and corruption cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001588", "start_seconds": 6219.1, "end_seconds": 6223.96, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "So that's why we are really very supportive of the efforts of the Ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001589", "start_seconds": 6224.4, "end_seconds": 6229.5, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "and in whatever capacity na makatulong kami, like the judicial marshal service," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001590", "start_seconds": 6229.92, "end_seconds": 6233.24, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "yung fiscal autonomy, etcetera." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001591", "start_seconds": 6233.24, "end_seconds": 6233.68, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "So, he says," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001592", "start_seconds": 6233.68, "end_seconds": 6242.1, "speaker": "Senator Panfilo Lacson", "text": "So rest assured that the Senate, under the leadership of the Senate President, will be foursquare behind the efforts of the Ombudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001593", "start_seconds": 6243.0, "end_seconds": 6243.6, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Thank you, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001594", "start_seconds": 6245.48, "end_seconds": 6246.1, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001595", "start_seconds": 6247.2, "end_seconds": 6255.68, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yes, before the Senate President, I would like to acknowledge also the presence of our Blue Ribbon Chair, Senator Erwin Tulfo." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001596", "start_seconds": 6255.78, "end_seconds": 6256.78, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you, sir, for joining us." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001597", "start_seconds": 6256.78, "end_seconds": 6260.04, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Mr. Chairman, just a brief intervention lang." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001598", "start_seconds": 6260.04, "end_seconds": 6270.36, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I was looking at itong corruption index scores natin, corruption perception index." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001599", "start_seconds": 6271.2, "end_seconds": 6285.32, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And sad to say, in the last three years, bumagsak yung ating ranking, from 144, the lowest rank being the least corrupt." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001600", "start_seconds": 6285.32, "end_seconds": 6289.28, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "From 144 rank naging 120 rank na tayo." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001601", "start_seconds": 6290.04, "end_seconds": 6300.0, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And we're now the third most corrupt in Southeast Asia, next to Myanmar and Cambodia, which are..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001602", "start_seconds": 6300.0, "end_seconds": 6302.64, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "alam naman natin, are junta states." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001603", "start_seconds": 6302.92, "end_seconds": 6312.66, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So there is really a very big challenge for all of us to improve the perception of corruption in our country." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001604", "start_seconds": 6313.16, "end_seconds": 6314.34, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Apektado tayo lahat eh." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001605", "start_seconds": 6314.74, "end_seconds": 6320.18, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "In fact, one of the reasons bakit mahina ang peso, dahil walang demand sa peso." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001606", "start_seconds": 6320.64, "end_seconds": 6322.28, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Walang nag-i-invest sa ating bansa." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001607", "start_seconds": 6323.3, "end_seconds": 6328.9, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Kasama na dito rin itong, of course, ease of doing business and also the perception of corruption." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001608", "start_seconds": 6328.9, "end_seconds": 6332.5, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So it's really a big challenge for all of us." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001609", "start_seconds": 6333.12, "end_seconds": 6336.26, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And that is why I second the statement of Senator Lacson na" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001610", "start_seconds": 6336.58, "end_seconds": 6342.14, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "whatever we can do to help the Ombudsman, even the judiciary, to fight corruption, we will do it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001611", "start_seconds": 6342.82, "end_seconds": 6352.4, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Because it affects our country, it affects our OFWs, it affects even the most ordinary Filipino." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001612", "start_seconds": 6352.86, "end_seconds": 6355.3, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So kailangan talaga magtulong-tulong tayo diyan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001613", "start_seconds": 6356.64, "end_seconds": 6357.46, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you, sir." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001614", "start_seconds": 6358.9, "end_seconds": 6363.12, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Our Blue Ribbon Chair is also here." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001615", "start_seconds": 6363.28, "end_seconds": 6364.22, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you for joining us." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001616", "start_seconds": 6364.54, "end_seconds": 6366.58, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Senator Erwin Tulfo, you now have the floor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001617", "start_seconds": 6372.46, "end_seconds": 6376.24, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "Anyway, I don't know, Mr. Chair, if this was already asked." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001618", "start_seconds": 6376.24, "end_seconds": 6378.7, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "Ito lang po nakita ko, napansin kanina dito." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001619", "start_seconds": 6379.34, "end_seconds": 6382.7, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "Itong total number of authorized positions, Mr. Chair." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001620", "start_seconds": 6383.44, "end_seconds": 6388.24, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "2,439 po nire-request po ng authorized positions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001621", "start_seconds": 6388.9, "end_seconds": 6393.12, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "Pero ang filled positions lamang ay 1,192." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001622", "start_seconds": 6393.4, "end_seconds": 6403.04, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "Dito po sa 2,439, Mr. Chair, Ombudsman, karamihan po ba nito ay mga investigators po ninyo?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001623", "start_seconds": 6403.3, "end_seconds": 6404.58, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "You would need lawyers?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001624", "start_seconds": 6406.04, "end_seconds": 6408.1, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "Sa anong mga positions po ito?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001625", "start_seconds": 6408.82, "end_seconds": 6412.08, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "We will need more lawyers and technical investigators, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001626", "start_seconds": 6412.42, "end_seconds": 6418.12, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Engineers who can educate us about infrastructure fraud, infrastructure corruption." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001627", "start_seconds": 6418.9, "end_seconds": 6425.5, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "And other specialists, Your Honor, who are good at investigating different kinds of crimes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001628", "start_seconds": 6426.16, "end_seconds": 6428.16, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "Mga normal positions po ito." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001629", "start_seconds": 6428.16, "end_seconds": 6429.4, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "I mean regular po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001630", "start_seconds": 6429.92, "end_seconds": 6431.5, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "Regular positions po ito." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001631", "start_seconds": 6431.5, "end_seconds": 6437.6, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "Hindi po ito yung basta-bastang mga contractual employees." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001632", "start_seconds": 6437.92, "end_seconds": 6438.2, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001633", "start_seconds": 6438.3, "end_seconds": 6439.46, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "They are plantilla positions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001634", "start_seconds": 6439.76, "end_seconds": 6440.22, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "Plantilla positions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001635", "start_seconds": 6440.24, "end_seconds": 6440.62, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001636", "start_seconds": 6440.84, "end_seconds": 6441.18, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "All right." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001637", "start_seconds": 6441.3, "end_seconds": 6441.82, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "Thank you po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001638", "start_seconds": 6442.2, "end_seconds": 6442.94, "speaker": "Senator Erwin Tulfo", "text": "That's all, Mr. Chair." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001639", "start_seconds": 6443.64, "end_seconds": 6446.0, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you, Senator Tulfo." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001640", "start_seconds": 6446.68, "end_seconds": 6447.04, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Likewise." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001641", "start_seconds": 6447.04, "end_seconds": 6449.22, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Isang tanong na lang." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001642", "start_seconds": 6449.34, "end_seconds": 6454.34, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yung tungkol sa Resident Ombudsman Program, what is the current status of the Resident Ombudsman Program," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001643", "start_seconds": 6454.54, "end_seconds": 6459.54, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "including the number of active resident ombudsmen, their deployment across agencies," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001644", "start_seconds": 6459.7, "end_seconds": 6463.86, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and the key accomplishments or challenges encountered recently?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001645", "start_seconds": 6464.32, "end_seconds": 6467.56, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Siguro, Assistant Ombudsman Bonoan, please." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001646", "start_seconds": 6468.08, "end_seconds": 6474.28, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "Your Honor, actually, during this administration, we have reactivated the Bureau of the Resident Ombudsman," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001647", "start_seconds": 6474.28, "end_seconds": 6475.84, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "which had remained inactive." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001648", "start_seconds": 6475.84, "end_seconds": 6477.7, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "the last several years." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001649", "start_seconds": 6478.36, "end_seconds": 6487.08, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "So, as of today, we have hired an additional 10 lawyers to complement our Bureau of Resident Ombudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001650", "start_seconds": 6487.28, "end_seconds": 6495.12, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "And we have plans, sir, after conducting the proper training, of fielding them out in different agencies," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001651", "start_seconds": 6495.34, "end_seconds": 6504.82, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "particularly the high revenue generating agencies, sir, to investigate and collect complaints from therein." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001652", "start_seconds": 6505.2, "end_seconds": 6505.82, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001653", "start_seconds": 6505.84, "end_seconds": 6506.38, "speaker": "Assistant Ombudsman Luis Gonzaga S. Bonoan, Jr.", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001654", "start_seconds": 6506.8, "end_seconds": 6507.32, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Okay, thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001655", "start_seconds": 6507.84, "end_seconds": 6513.7, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Anyway, before we close, if there are no more questions or queries from our colleagues." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001656", "start_seconds": 6514.32, "end_seconds": 6515.84, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yes, Senate President Pro Tempore." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001657", "start_seconds": 6516.44, "end_seconds": 6517.2, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001658", "start_seconds": 6517.36, "end_seconds": 6524.14, "speaker": "Senator Vicente C. Sotto III", "text": "I move that we submit and approve the budget of the Ombudsman, together with the proposed amendments." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001659", "start_seconds": 6524.44, "end_seconds": 6525.2, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "I second the motion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001660", "start_seconds": 6526.08, "end_seconds": 6530.64, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Since it has been moved by our Senate President Pro Tempore and seconded," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001661", "start_seconds": 6530.64, "end_seconds": 6535.72, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "the budget of the Office of the Ombudsman is now deemed submitted for the plenary's consideration," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001662", "start_seconds": 6535.84, "end_seconds": 6539.44, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "subject to the discussion and submission of documents requested." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001663", "start_seconds": 6539.6, "end_seconds": 6545.26, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you very much, gentlemen, Ombudsman, and to all the rest of the officials of the Office of the Ombudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001664", "start_seconds": 6545.36, "end_seconds": 6545.7, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001665", "start_seconds": 6546.08, "end_seconds": 6547.64, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "This briefing is hereby suspended." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001666", "start_seconds": 6548.28, "end_seconds": 6548.74, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001667", "start_seconds": 6548.82, "end_seconds": 6549.28, "speaker": "Ombudsman Jesus Crispin C. Remulla", "text": "Thank you, sir." } ] }