{ "hearing": { "id": 49, "title": "Senate Committee on Finance: Judiciary - September 10, 2026", "hearing_date": "2026-09-10", "official_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChSBhlwy39I" }, "revision_id": 7745, "revision_number": 27, "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": 547.12, "end_seconds": 554.0, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "uh g of the committee on finance we'd like to call the hearing uh budget hearing to order" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000002", "start_seconds": 558.46, "end_seconds": 565.82, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "good morning and uh welcome to this uh hearing of the committee on finance subcommittee g" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000003", "start_seconds": 566.7, "end_seconds": 575.5, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "um the hearing today is for the proposed uh fiscal year 2027 budget of the judiciary" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000004", "start_seconds": 575.5, "end_seconds": 583.82, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "uh i'm i understand that senators jv ejército and uh senate president win gachalian will be joining" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000005", "start_seconds": 583.82, "end_seconds": 590.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "us uh in the meantime may i call on our committee secretary attorney philip luna to acknowledge our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000006", "start_seconds": 590.54, "end_seconds": 593.7, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "resource persons and place it on record go ahead attorney lena" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000006-split-2", "start_seconds": 593.7, "end_seconds": 596.54, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "good morning mr chair and good" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000007", "start_seconds": 596.54, "end_seconds": 603.74, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "morning everyone if you have in attendance the following uh honorable rodel visa lameda associate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000008", "start_seconds": 603.74, "end_seconds": 605.1, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "justice of the supreme court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000009", "start_seconds": 605.74, "end_seconds": 613.1, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "honorable joseph y lopez associate justice of the supreme court honorable jose midas p marquez" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000010", "start_seconds": 613.1, "end_seconds": 619.66, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "associate justice of the supreme court honorable raul villanueva associate justice of the supreme" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000011", "start_seconds": 619.66, "end_seconds": 628.22, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "court the court administrator honorable maria teresa dolores gomez istuesta honorable lillian" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000012", "start_seconds": 628.22, "end_seconds": 635.42, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "c baribal co deputy court administrator for administration honorable rainel da" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000013", "start_seconds": 635.5, "end_seconds": 642.46, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "h estacio montesa deputy court administrator for regional services from the court of appeals" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000014", "start_seconds": 642.46, "end_seconds": 649.1, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "we have honorable fernanda lampas peralta the presiding justice honorable florencio m mamawag" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000015", "start_seconds": 649.1, "end_seconds": 656.94, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "jr associate justice no need to stand just raise your hand honorable jennifer joy c ong associate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000016", "start_seconds": 656.94, "end_seconds": 664.94, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "justice honorable rogelio j largo associate justice honorable walter s ong associate justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000017", "start_seconds": 666.46, "end_seconds": 672.86, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "and from the sitting gun bayan we have honorable geraldine faith a econ presiding justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000018", "start_seconds": 674.06, "end_seconds": 682.78, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "from honorable jenner m hito associate justice honorable arthur o malabagyo associate justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000019", "start_seconds": 683.66, "end_seconds": 689.98, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "honorable juliette m manalo san gaspar associate justice honorable lord a villanueva associate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000020", "start_seconds": 689.98, "end_seconds": 694.3, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "justice honorable ronald o chua associate justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000021", "start_seconds": 695.58, "end_seconds": 701.74, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "from the court of tax appeals we have honorable jim marie a bakoro villena associate justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000022", "start_seconds": 702.94, "end_seconds": 706.54, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "honorable corazon j ferrer flores associate justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000023", "start_seconds": 708.54, "end_seconds": 713.66, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "from the department of budget and management representatives assigned to the judiciary" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000024", "start_seconds": 714.22, "end_seconds": 725.86, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "we have miss marika joanna de la pena chief bms miss maria amore de atotubo svbms from the commission" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000025", "start_seconds": 725.86, "end_seconds": 727.8, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "on audit representatives assigned to the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000026", "start_seconds": 727.8, "end_seconds": 729.04, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "Supreme Court of the Philippines" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000027", "start_seconds": 729.04, "end_seconds": 732.0, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "Ms. Maria Carmela E. Marcos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000028", "start_seconds": 732.0, "end_seconds": 733.02, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "State Auditor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000029", "start_seconds": 733.02, "end_seconds": 736.14, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "Mr. Jervin" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000030", "start_seconds": 736.14, "end_seconds": 737.7, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "A. de la Peña, ATL" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000031", "start_seconds": 737.7, "end_seconds": 739.26, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "Office of the Court Administrator" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000032", "start_seconds": 739.26, "end_seconds": 741.84, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "Ms. Cheryl Ann" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000033", "start_seconds": 741.84, "end_seconds": 743.5, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "R. Martinez, ATL" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000034", "start_seconds": 743.5, "end_seconds": 744.28, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "Supreme Court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000035", "start_seconds": 744.28, "end_seconds": 747.76, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "From the co-representatives assigned to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000036", "start_seconds": 747.76, "end_seconds": 749.34, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "the Court of Appeals and Diganbayan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000037", "start_seconds": 749.34, "end_seconds": 751.72, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "Court of Tax Appeals, Ms. Jocelyn" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000038", "start_seconds": 751.72, "end_seconds": 753.42, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "S. Nocom, State Auditor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000039", "start_seconds": 753.42, "end_seconds": 755.86, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "Ms. Alma L. Resco" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000040", "start_seconds": 755.86, "end_seconds": 757.4, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "Rosaupan, State Auditor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000041", "start_seconds": 757.4, "end_seconds": 760.54, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "Ms. Diana Oldan, State Auditor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000042", "start_seconds": 760.54, "end_seconds": 762.52, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "That's all, Mr. Che" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000043", "start_seconds": 762.52, "end_seconds": 763.46, "speaker": "Committee Secretary", "text": "Thank you" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000044", "start_seconds": 763.46, "end_seconds": 765.6, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you, Attorney Lina" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000045", "start_seconds": 765.6, "end_seconds": 766.7, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "We can now proceed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000046", "start_seconds": 766.7, "end_seconds": 769.4, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "First of all, thank you very much" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000047", "start_seconds": 769.4, "end_seconds": 772.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "to our Honorable Justices" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000048", "start_seconds": 772.16, "end_seconds": 774.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "for your presence" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000049", "start_seconds": 774.46, "end_seconds": 774.92, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "today" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000050", "start_seconds": 774.92, "end_seconds": 777.98, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Allow me to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000051", "start_seconds": 777.98, "end_seconds": 780.02, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "begin with my opening statement" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000052", "start_seconds": 780.02, "end_seconds": 782.06, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Ito ang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000053", "start_seconds": 782.06, "end_seconds": 783.3, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "bukang bibig" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000054", "start_seconds": 783.3, "end_seconds": 785.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "ng marami nating" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000055", "start_seconds": 785.22, "end_seconds": 786.06, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "mga kababayan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000056", "start_seconds": 786.06, "end_seconds": 788.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Wala namang nakukulong," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000057", "start_seconds": 788.16, "end_seconds": 790.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "wala namang napaparusahan," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000058", "start_seconds": 790.62, "end_seconds": 793.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "wala namang naibabalik" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000059", "start_seconds": 793.48, "end_seconds": 794.82, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "na pera na ninakaw." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000060", "start_seconds": 794.82, "end_seconds": 797.08, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Tuloy pa rin ang ligaya." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000061", "start_seconds": 797.08, "end_seconds": 799.5, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Totoo" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000062", "start_seconds": 799.5, "end_seconds": 801.32, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "man o hindi," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000063", "start_seconds": 801.32, "end_seconds": 803.3, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "ito ay damdamin ng" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000064", "start_seconds": 803.3, "end_seconds": 805.26, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "marami nating mga kababayan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000065", "start_seconds": 805.26, "end_seconds": 807.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Mahigit isang buwan na" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000066", "start_seconds": 807.22, "end_seconds": 809.06, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "kitang-kita at damang-dama natin" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000067", "start_seconds": 809.06, "end_seconds": 811.38, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "ang pananalasa ng" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000068", "start_seconds": 811.38, "end_seconds": 813.02, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "katiwalian at [unclear]" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000069", "start_seconds": 813.3, "end_seconds": 816.0, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "kasama ng mga ghost at palpak na" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000070", "start_seconds": 816.0, "end_seconds": 818.94, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "flood control projects." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000071", "start_seconds": 818.94, "end_seconds": 820.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "[unclear] inanod" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000072", "start_seconds": 820.16, "end_seconds": 822.7, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "ang aabot" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000073", "start_seconds": 822.7, "end_seconds": 826.32, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "na trilyong pisong" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000074", "start_seconds": 826.32, "end_seconds": 826.9, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000075", "start_seconds": 826.9, "end_seconds": 828.3, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "na inilaan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000076", "start_seconds": 828.3, "end_seconds": 829.38, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "laban sa" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000077", "start_seconds": 829.38, "end_seconds": 830.32, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "mapanirang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000078", "start_seconds": 830.32, "end_seconds": 830.94, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "baha." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000079", "start_seconds": 830.94, "end_seconds": 833.6, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "In a manner of speaking" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000080", "start_seconds": 833.6, "end_seconds": 835.04, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "those accused" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000081", "start_seconds": 835.04, "end_seconds": 837.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "now in the largest corruption" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000082", "start_seconds": 837.54, "end_seconds": 839.56, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "scandal in the history of the Republic" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000083", "start_seconds": 839.56, "end_seconds": 841.68, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "are not the only ones" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000084", "start_seconds": 841.68, "end_seconds": 842.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "being tried" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000085", "start_seconds": 842.34, "end_seconds": 843.94, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Today" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000086", "start_seconds": 843.94, "end_seconds": 845.56, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the judiciary" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000087", "start_seconds": 845.56, "end_seconds": 846.88, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000088", "start_seconds": 846.88, "end_seconds": 848.64, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the Department of Justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000089", "start_seconds": 848.64, "end_seconds": 851.3, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the entire Philippine justice system" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000090", "start_seconds": 851.3, "end_seconds": 853.96, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "is also on trial" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000091", "start_seconds": 853.96, "end_seconds": 855.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "under the court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000092", "start_seconds": 855.34, "end_seconds": 857.0, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "of public opinion" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000093", "start_seconds": 857.0, "end_seconds": 859.38, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Masakit" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000094", "start_seconds": 859.38, "end_seconds": 860.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "at klarong-klaro," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000095", "start_seconds": 860.22, "end_seconds": 861.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "lagpas tao ang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000096", "start_seconds": 861.46, "end_seconds": 862.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "lalim ng" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000097", "start_seconds": 862.46, "end_seconds": 864.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "puot ng taong" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000098", "start_seconds": 864.54, "end_seconds": 865.76, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "bayan na patuloy na" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000099", "start_seconds": 865.76, "end_seconds": 867.3, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "sinasalanta," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000100", "start_seconds": 867.3, "end_seconds": 869.5, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "hindi lang ng baha," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000101", "start_seconds": 869.5, "end_seconds": 876.14, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "kundi ng matinding kawalan ng hustisya." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000102", "start_seconds": 878.28, "end_seconds": 883.38, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "I recall, and I mentioned this in one of our committee hearings on the Committee on Justice," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000103", "start_seconds": 883.38, "end_seconds": 892.3, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "as we were hearing a measure to try and address the challenges of our justice system." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000104", "start_seconds": 894.14, "end_seconds": 899.92, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "The Sandigan Bayan in 2025 convicted two former departments" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000105", "start_seconds": 899.92, "end_seconds": 906.72, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "of Agriculture Officials of GRAF over the anomalous purchase of 3.9 million worth of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000106", "start_seconds": 906.72, "end_seconds": 916.44, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "fertilizers, a transaction dating back to 2004. When a judgment of conviction comes 21 years" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000107", "start_seconds": 916.44, "end_seconds": 924.92, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "after the corruption case was filed, one cannot help but ask, how did we stop corruption" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000108", "start_seconds": 924.92, "end_seconds": 934.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "convincingly? How was justice served? And how can we, in strengthening the respect for the rule of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000109", "start_seconds": 934.46, "end_seconds": 941.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "law, how can it be brought about by this delay in the disposition of corruption cases?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000110", "start_seconds": 942.18, "end_seconds": 947.68, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Two small fish convicted in a corruption case spanning 21 years," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000111", "start_seconds": 948.62, "end_seconds": 954.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "while big fish are seen and perceived as untouchable, unpunished," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000112", "start_seconds": 954.92, "end_seconds": 963.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "absolved. In frustration, and in the context of our hearing today, one cannot help but ask," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000113", "start_seconds": 965.99, "end_seconds": 971.67, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "we are allocating 86 billion, or at least this is the proposed judiciary budget," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000114", "start_seconds": 972.89, "end_seconds": 983.5699999999999, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "while COA estimates about 1.7 trillion is lost annually to corruption." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000115", "start_seconds": 992.12, "end_seconds": 993.4, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Matinding kakulangan o kawalan ng" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000116", "start_seconds": 993.4, "end_seconds": 994.4, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "hustisya ito" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000117", "start_seconds": 994.4, "end_seconds": 995.28, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "laban sa" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000118", "start_seconds": 995.28, "end_seconds": 997.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "bawat Pilipinong" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000119", "start_seconds": 997.46, "end_seconds": 1001.98, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "nagbabayad ng buwis at bawat pamilyang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000120", "start_seconds": 1001.98, "end_seconds": 1003.38, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "wasak ang buhay" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000121", "start_seconds": 1003.38, "end_seconds": 1008.42, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "na pinundar ng dugo, pawis at luha." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000122", "start_seconds": 1008.42, "end_seconds": 1009.6800000000001, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Sa totoo lang," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000123", "start_seconds": 1009.6800000000001, "end_seconds": 1011.64, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "simple lang ang katarungang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000124", "start_seconds": 1011.64, "end_seconds": 1012.52, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "hinihingi ng" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000125", "start_seconds": 1012.52, "end_seconds": 1013.12, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "karaniwang mga kababayan natin:" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000126", "start_seconds": 1013.12, "end_seconds": 1013.96, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "mabilis," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000127", "start_seconds": 1013.96, "end_seconds": 1014.94, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "patas," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000128", "start_seconds": 1014.94, "end_seconds": 1016.12, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "abot-kamay" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000129", "start_seconds": 1016.12, "end_seconds": 1018.8199999999999, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "at hindi takot sa mga" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000130", "start_seconds": 1018.8199999999999, "end_seconds": 1019.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "nasa poder" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000131", "start_seconds": 1019.54, "end_seconds": 1021.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "o sa malakas" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000132", "start_seconds": 1021.22, "end_seconds": 1022.02, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "ang kapit," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000133", "start_seconds": 1022.02, "end_seconds": 1022.58, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "ika nga. Kaya kailangang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000134", "start_seconds": 1022.58, "end_seconds": 1023.24, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "gamitin ng hudikatura ang pondong" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000135", "start_seconds": 1023.24, "end_seconds": 1034.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Pag-uusapan natin ngayon para ayusin ang sistema at mapabilis ang patas na justisya sa ating bansa." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000136", "start_seconds": 1035.62, "end_seconds": 1039.9, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Hindi sapat na may naisampang mga kaso, hindi sapat na may iniimbestigahan," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000137", "start_seconds": 1040.46, "end_seconds": 1044.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "kailangan may napapanagot, kailangan may nasa sentensyahan," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000138", "start_seconds": 1044.92, "end_seconds": 1049.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "kailangan may habang buhay na makukulong sa kasong pandarambong." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000139", "start_seconds": 1049.54, "end_seconds": 1062.4, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Internally, the judiciary must likewise watch and police its ranks of erring and unfit officials." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000140", "start_seconds": 1065.08, "end_seconds": 1073.56, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "There are rumors, unverified reports, stories shared about how cases are allegedly fixed," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000141", "start_seconds": 1073.9, "end_seconds": 1078.7, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "freedom allegedly paid for, and money allegedly passed around." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000142", "start_seconds": 1079.6, "end_seconds": 1081.12, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Whether true or not," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000143", "start_seconds": 1081.3, "end_seconds": 1090.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the judiciary must do its share in ensuring that there is accountability for wrongdoing among its own." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000144", "start_seconds": 1093.24, "end_seconds": 1098.42, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Inaasahan ng taong bayan ang mga hukom na kumikilos ng mabilis at tiyak," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000145", "start_seconds": 1098.88, "end_seconds": 1104.18, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "makatarungan at walang kinikilingan na aayon sa due process at higit sa lahat" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000146", "start_seconds": 1104.18, "end_seconds": 1112.5, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "nagpapatunay na walang opisyal, kontraktor, o kaalyadong politiko ang exempted sa batas." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000147", "start_seconds": 1113.26, "end_seconds": 1116.6, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Kung may dalang leptospirosis ang baha," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000148", "start_seconds": 1117.8, "end_seconds": 1131.52, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "dapat din natin sugpuin ang kleptospirosis na dala ng dekadekadang kahinaan o hindi mabilis na katarungan sa ating bansa." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000149", "start_seconds": 1131.52, "end_seconds": 1142.7, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Sa huli, ang tunay na sukatan ng justisya ay kapag mabilis, patas, at maayos ang sistema ng katarungan na," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000150", "start_seconds": 1143.26, "end_seconds": 1151.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "agad-agad na pinapawalang sala ang mga inusente at agad-agad ding napaparusahan ang may sala." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000151", "start_seconds": 1152.34, "end_seconds": 1168.08, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "At kapag nangyari na ito, dyan natin makikita ang tunay na respeto at takot sa long arm of the law at sa rule of law sa ating bansa." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000152", "start_seconds": 1168.08, "end_seconds": 1172.08, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And if I may stress this representation," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000153", "start_seconds": 1173.26, "end_seconds": 1179.02, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "defended the judiciary budget last year, it is an honor and a privilege to be able to do the same this year." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000154", "start_seconds": 1180.02, "end_seconds": 1189.8, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "We are one in wanting our judicial system to be, if I may borrow the term of former Chief Justice Puno," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000155", "start_seconds": 1189.8, "end_seconds": 1200.9, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "we want first world justice, but we should also fight for first world budgets to make sure that the judiciary can do its job effectively." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000156", "start_seconds": 1203.26, "end_seconds": 1205.74, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So, we can now proceed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000157", "start_seconds": 1205.74, "end_seconds": 1212.12, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Perhaps, if I understand it correctly, Justice Estoesta." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000158", "start_seconds": 1212.12, "end_seconds": 1213.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, Your Honor, good morning, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000159", "start_seconds": 1213.6, "end_seconds": 1219.02, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "As we did in the last budget hearing, you have the floor for your presentation, please go ahead." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000160", "start_seconds": 1219.02, "end_seconds": 1226.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Good morning, Your Honor and distinguished members of the Senate and the guests present today and budget officials." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000161", "start_seconds": 1226.8, "end_seconds": 1227.92, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "At the outset, allow us to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000162", "start_seconds": 1227.92, "end_seconds": 1229.2, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "express our appreciation" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000163", "start_seconds": 1229.2, "end_seconds": 1230.52, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "to the Honorable" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000164", "start_seconds": 1230.52, "end_seconds": 1232.48, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000165", "start_seconds": 1232.48, "end_seconds": 1233.26, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "for sponsoring" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000166", "start_seconds": 1233.26, "end_seconds": 1235.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "and defending the judiciary's budget." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000167", "start_seconds": 1236.44, "end_seconds": 1238.3600000000001, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "This is particularly meaningful to us" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000168", "start_seconds": 1238.3600000000001, "end_seconds": 1241.26, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "because the good senator has always spoken of the rule of law," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000169", "start_seconds": 1241.68, "end_seconds": 1244.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "good governance, accountability, and access to justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000170", "start_seconds": 1244.88, "end_seconds": 1248.94, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "that cannot be achieved without a strong and independent judiciary." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000171", "start_seconds": 1249.46, "end_seconds": 1252.1, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "These are ideals that resonate deeply" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000172", "start_seconds": 1252.1, "end_seconds": 1256.12, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "with the judiciary's constitutional mandate and ethical values." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000173", "start_seconds": 1256.58, "end_seconds": 1259.74, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We share the belief that justice must not only be available," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000174", "start_seconds": 1259.74, "end_seconds": 1265.34, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "it must be accessible, timely, credible, responsive, and independent." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000175", "start_seconds": 1265.88, "end_seconds": 1269.0, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We are therefore grateful to the Honorable Senator Pangilinan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000176", "start_seconds": 1269.0, "end_seconds": 1272.52, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "for taking on the responsibility of sponsoring the judiciary's budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000177", "start_seconds": 1272.52, "end_seconds": 1275.66, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "and for giving us the opportunity to demonstrate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000178", "start_seconds": 1275.66, "end_seconds": 1279.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "how these resources will strengthen the administration of justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000179", "start_seconds": 1280.1399999999999, "end_seconds": 1281.24, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Good morning, Mr. Senator." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000180", "start_seconds": 1281.46, "end_seconds": 1283.82, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Before you continue, Justice Estoesta," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000181", "start_seconds": 1284.0, "end_seconds": 1287.06, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "we'd like to place on record and acknowledge" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000182", "start_seconds": 1287.06, "end_seconds": 1289.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the presence of our Senate President, Sherwin Gatchalian." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000183", "start_seconds": 1289.54, "end_seconds": 1292.04, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Good morning, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000184", "start_seconds": 1292.4, "end_seconds": 1295.04, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Former Committee on Finance Chairperson," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000185", "start_seconds": 1295.42, "end_seconds": 1297.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "would you have an opening statement, sir?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000186", "start_seconds": 1298.38, "end_seconds": 1304.31, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Mr. President, we beg the indulgence of Justice Estoesta." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000187", "start_seconds": 1306.49, "end_seconds": 1308.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Maraming salamat, Chair Kiko." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000188", "start_seconds": 1309.1100000000001, "end_seconds": 1312.65, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Napakinggan ko po 'yung inyong opening statement" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000189", "start_seconds": 1312.65, "end_seconds": 1315.29, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "sa sasakyan noong papunta po ako dito." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000190", "start_seconds": 1316.47, "end_seconds": 1321.21, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Unang-una sa lahat, we welcome our friends and our colleagues from the judiciary." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000191", "start_seconds": 1322.77, "end_seconds": 1327.49, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Lahat naman ho tayo dito ay nagtatrabaho para sa taong bayan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000192", "start_seconds": 1328.27, "end_seconds": 1331.6100000000001, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Lahat naman ho tayo dito ay mga government employees." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000193", "start_seconds": 1332.6100000000001, "end_seconds": 1338.6100000000001, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "At higit sa lahat, lahat naman ho tayo pantay-pantay ang gusto ho natin para sa minamahal nating bansa," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000194", "start_seconds": 1338.6100000000001, "end_seconds": 1345.79, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "na maayos at maibalik po ang tiwala ng taong bayan sa ating gobyerno." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000195", "start_seconds": 1347.73, "end_seconds": 1351.85, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Sang-ayon po ako sa ating Chairman na nasa crossroads ho tayo" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000196", "start_seconds": 1351.85, "end_seconds": 1352.65, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "pagdating sa tiwala." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000197", "start_seconds": 1352.77, "end_seconds": 1354.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Hindi na ho" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000198", "start_seconds": 1354.77, "end_seconds": 1357.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Hindi na ho tinitingnan ng taong bayan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000199", "start_seconds": 1357.77, "end_seconds": 1363.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "kung ikaw ay congressman, senator, or judge, or justice, or mayor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000200", "start_seconds": 1363.77, "end_seconds": 1368.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Tingin nila, buong gobyerno ay nawawala na po ang tiwala nila." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000201", "start_seconds": 1368.77, "end_seconds": 1375.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Kaya nandito ho kami para mabigyan po ng suporta ang judiciary" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000202", "start_seconds": 1375.77, "end_seconds": 1380.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "para po 'yung wheels of justice, 'yung gulong ng hustisya," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000203", "start_seconds": 1380.77, "end_seconds": 1381.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "ay gumana" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000204", "start_seconds": 1381.77, "end_seconds": 1382.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "at maging episyente." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000205", "start_seconds": 1382.77, "end_seconds": 1384.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Marami ho talaga tayong dapat ayusin" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000206", "start_seconds": 1384.77, "end_seconds": 1388.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "at marami ho tayong dapat panagutin," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000207", "start_seconds": 1389.77, "end_seconds": 1393.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "lalo na dito po sa mga nangyaring corruption issues." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000208", "start_seconds": 1393.77, "end_seconds": 1398.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "At hindi ho magiging kumpleto po itong pagbabalik ng tiwala" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000209", "start_seconds": 1399.77, "end_seconds": 1404.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "kung isa sa ating mga sangay ng ating pamahalaan ay hindi po gagana." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000210", "start_seconds": 1405.77, "end_seconds": 1410.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Kaya nandito ho kami para suportahan ho kayo." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000211", "start_seconds": 1410.77, "end_seconds": 1427.25, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Pero importante rin po na ang hanay natin ay masigurado natin ay gumagana at lahat po ay sumusuporta sa parehong adikain na maibalik po ang tiwala ng taong bayan sa ating gobyerno." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000212", "start_seconds": 1428.1100000000001, "end_seconds": 1430.37, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So with that, Chairman, maraming maraming salamat po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000213", "start_seconds": 1430.37, "end_seconds": 1437.37, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you, Senate President Win. We can now go back to Justice Estoesta. Go ahead, ma'am." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000214", "start_seconds": 1437.37, "end_seconds": 1457.9099999999999, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair, Mr. Senate President. This is the first budget cycle being presented within the framework of the Fiscal Autonomy Act under RA 12233, which identifies the original budget proposal of the judiciary that has been attached, if not already incorporated in the National Expenditure Program." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000215", "start_seconds": 1458.03, "end_seconds": 1466.47, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So for SCPLC, from the offices of the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court and their personnel, and for the lower courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000216", "start_seconds": 1466.47, "end_seconds": 1483.8899999999999, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Speaking of 2,303 judges as of August 31, 2026, 28,805 court personnel as of August 30, 2026, we present a 22% increase or 15.66 billion of additional funding in the judiciary." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000217", "start_seconds": 1483.8899999999999, "end_seconds": 1492.67, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "If I may state so, Your Honor, in the 2026 GA'A Judiciary Budget, we have 70.611 billion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000218", "start_seconds": 1492.67, "end_seconds": 1495.67, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So the 22.611 billion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000219", "start_seconds": 1496.47, "end_seconds": 1505.95, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The 22% increase will account for a total of 86.271 billion pesos, the breakdown of which is as follows." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000220", "start_seconds": 1505.95, "end_seconds": 1519.13, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "For the Supreme Court of the Philippines and the lower courts, the proposed increase for this year is 73.837 billion or an increase of 13.347 billion, marking a 22% increase." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000221", "start_seconds": 1519.13, "end_seconds": 1526.13, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "For the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, from the GA'A 2026 of 179.87 million." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000222", "start_seconds": 1526.47, "end_seconds": 1538.15, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We are now proposing for 2027, 193.43 million or an increase of 13.56 million, marking an increase of 8%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000223", "start_seconds": 1538.15, "end_seconds": 1554.75, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "For the Court of Appeals, from the 2026 GA'A of 6.092 billion, we have a proposed increase of 7.605 billion or an increase of 1.513 billion, representing 25% increase." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000224", "start_seconds": 1554.75, "end_seconds": 1556.31, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "For the Sandigan Bayan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000225", "start_seconds": 1556.47, "end_seconds": 1571.9299999999998, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The 2026 GA'A reflected a 2.723 billion budget, which is now proposed to be 3.282 billion or an increase of only 559 million, representing an increase of 21%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000226", "start_seconds": 1571.9299999999998, "end_seconds": 1586.0900000000001, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "For the Court of Tax Appeals, it is 1.127 billion, which we are proposing now to be increased to 1.354 billion or an increase of 227 million, representing an increase of 20%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000227", "start_seconds": 1586.47, "end_seconds": 1595.01, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So overall, Your Honor, 86.271 billion or an increase of 15.66 billion, 22%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000228", "start_seconds": 1595.01, "end_seconds": 1598.23, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "As a breakdown, Your Honor, allow us to do it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000229", "start_seconds": 1598.23, "end_seconds": 1619.76, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "For the Supreme Court of the Philippines and the lower courts, for the personal services, representing basically salary, wage upgrade and adjustment." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000230", "start_seconds": 1619.76, "end_seconds": 1621.3200000000002, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "It is an increase of 3.859 billion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000231", "start_seconds": 1621.56, "end_seconds": 1622.8600000000001, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "For the MOOE, it is" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000232", "start_seconds": 1622.8600000000001, "end_seconds": 1625.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "3.246 billion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000233", "start_seconds": 1625.42, "end_seconds": 1628.1, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "billion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000234", "start_seconds": 1628.1, "end_seconds": 1629.22, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "But if we look at" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000235", "start_seconds": 1629.22, "end_seconds": 1635.2, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "But if we look at the capital outlay, Your Honor, there is a decrease of 3.758 billion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000236", "start_seconds": 1635.2, "end_seconds": 1644.56, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The decrease, Your Honor, will only account—it should not mean that we are scaling down the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000237", "start_seconds": 1644.56, "end_seconds": 1649.1799999999998, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "judiciary's infrastructure or modernization program, because the decrease is principally" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000238", "start_seconds": 1649.1799999999998, "end_seconds": 1650.3200000000002, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "attributed to a lower project cost estimation." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000239", "start_seconds": 1650.3200000000002, "end_seconds": 1651.3200000000002, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "And that is why we are doing this." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000240", "start_seconds": 1651.3200000000002, "end_seconds": 1651.44, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you very much, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000241", "start_seconds": 1651.44, "end_seconds": 1651.52, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000242", "start_seconds": 1651.52, "end_seconds": 1651.56, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000243", "start_seconds": 1651.56, "end_seconds": 1657.58, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "for certain information technology projects of the MISO or the Management Information Systems" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000244", "start_seconds": 1657.58, "end_seconds": 1662.1399999999999, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Office. So, following the continuing review and refinement of the project requirements," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000245", "start_seconds": 1662.54, "end_seconds": 1667.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "specifications, and costing, the amount necessary to implement the projects will be determined to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000246", "start_seconds": 1667.8, "end_seconds": 1673.1399999999999, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "be lower than the previous estimate as we continue to pursue the digital infrastructure requirements" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000247", "start_seconds": 1673.1399999999999, "end_seconds": 1679.48, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "of the judiciary. Now, Your Honor, it is interesting to note that with the budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000248", "start_seconds": 1679.48, "end_seconds": 1684.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "hearing before the Committee on Appropriations in the House of Representatives," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000249", "start_seconds": 1686.4, "end_seconds": 1690.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the distinguished members of Congress were able to ask us about the newly" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000250", "start_seconds": 1690.78, "end_seconds": 1697.5, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "created courts and if we have included the unorganized courts even without the NOSCA funding" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000251", "start_seconds": 1697.5, "end_seconds": 1703.2, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "in our budget. We have said that we have not, Your Honor, and we were encouraged to include it now," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000252", "start_seconds": 1703.56, "end_seconds": 1708.56, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honors, as a matter of augmentation. So, if we look at the request for augmentation," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000253", "start_seconds": 1708.56, "end_seconds": 1709.46, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honor, for the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000254", "start_seconds": 1709.46, "end_seconds": 1715.8400000000001, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "judiciary, for the lower courts, to represent in particular the newly created courts even without" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000255", "start_seconds": 1715.8400000000001, "end_seconds": 1730.8400000000001, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "NOSCA in the amount of, for the Supreme Court, 3,992,618,200 representing a total of unorganized" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000256", "start_seconds": 1730.8400000000001, "end_seconds": 1737.92, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "courts, 135, and a temporary vacancy of, well, the temporary vacancy have already been funded." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000257", "start_seconds": 1737.92, "end_seconds": 1739.44, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So, unorganized without," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000258", "start_seconds": 1739.46, "end_seconds": 1747.22, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "NOSCA is 135 courts, Your Honors. And then, as a, to be carried over with the other courts," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000259", "start_seconds": 1747.3200000000002, "end_seconds": 1754.8400000000001, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honor, for the Court of Appeals, they're asking an augmentation of 96 million pesos," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000260", "start_seconds": 1755.3400000000001, "end_seconds": 1762.1799999999998, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Sandigan Bayan, 31 million, and the Court of Tax Appeals, 19,334,000, or a total request" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000261", "start_seconds": 1762.1799999999998, "end_seconds": 1769.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "for augmentation, 4,068,952,200. Yes. So, to move on," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000262", "start_seconds": 1769.46, "end_seconds": 1776.94, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honor, for the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, we are asking for an increase of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000263", "start_seconds": 1776.94, "end_seconds": 1790.04, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "11.239 million, and for the MOOE, 2.320 million. For the Court of Appeals, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000264", "start_seconds": 1790.54, "end_seconds": 1799.98, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "personal services, an increase of 522.731 million, MOOE of 849.167 million, and a capital" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000265", "start_seconds": 1800.0, "end_seconds": 1811.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "outlay of 140.890 million for the court of tax appeals sorry for the sandigan bayan your honor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000266", "start_seconds": 1811.42, "end_seconds": 1820.04, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "personal services there may be a reflected decrease in personal services of 27.659 million" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000267", "start_seconds": 1820.04, "end_seconds": 1825.82, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "but the reduction in personal services is not really a personnel cut but a technical adjustment" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000268", "start_seconds": 1825.82, "end_seconds": 1831.06, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "arising from the recalculation of the actual personal requirements rather than a reduction" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000269", "start_seconds": 1831.06, "end_seconds": 1836.58, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "in the salaries or benefits of our incumbent incumbent personnel in the sandigan bayan but" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000270", "start_seconds": 1836.58, "end_seconds": 1841.46, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "we continue to fund the upgrading and reclassification of positions and the filing of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000271", "start_seconds": 1841.46, "end_seconds": 1847.5, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "or the filling of vacant positions all right for the court of tax appeals your honors" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000272", "start_seconds": 1847.5, "end_seconds": 1860.55, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "we have personal services in the amount of 123.052 million mooe of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000273", "start_seconds": 1860.55, "end_seconds": 1863.03, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "43" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000274", "start_seconds": 1863.03, "end_seconds": 1863.19, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "123" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000275", "start_seconds": 1863.19, "end_seconds": 1864.49, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "123" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000276", "start_seconds": 1864.49, "end_seconds": 1864.51, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "123" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000277", "start_seconds": 1864.51, "end_seconds": 1865.21, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "208" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000278", "start_seconds": 1865.21, "end_seconds": 1876.91, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "108.159 million but there again appears a decrease in the capital outlay of 4.528 million" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000279", "start_seconds": 1876.91, "end_seconds": 1881.71, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the reason being your honor primarily attributable to the fact that the budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000280", "start_seconds": 1881.71, "end_seconds": 1886.83, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "previously provided for the acquisition and installation of solar panels is no longer" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000281", "start_seconds": 1886.83, "end_seconds": 1892.45, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "carried over into the current fiscal year now this only demonstrates that the overall increase" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000282", "start_seconds": 1892.45, "end_seconds": 1894.49, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "in the CTA's budget is being directed principally toward personal requirements" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000283", "start_seconds": 1894.51, "end_seconds": 1895.71, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "and the operational requirements of the court." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000284", "start_seconds": 1895.71, "end_seconds": 1897.27, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So in total, it is really not a decrease, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000285", "start_seconds": 1897.27, "end_seconds": 1909.35, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "which may violate the constitutional provision that resources cannot be decreased" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000286", "start_seconds": 1909.35, "end_seconds": 1911.17, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "if gauged from last year's budget appropriation." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000287", "start_seconds": 1911.17, "end_seconds": 1915.47, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "For our major final outputs, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000288", "start_seconds": 1915.47, "end_seconds": 1917.87, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "or case disposition, the following slides" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000289", "start_seconds": 1917.87, "end_seconds": 1924.31, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "represent disposition from the Supreme Court down to our first-level courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000290", "start_seconds": 1924.31, "end_seconds": 1934.1100000000001, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "From the data, many of our courts are already exceeding their disposal targets with accomplishment rates reaching 85% to 290%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000291", "start_seconds": 1934.1100000000001, "end_seconds": 1948.3899999999999, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "With our first-level courts being our champions in case disposition, considering the volume of cases incoming and the 24-hour limit in the disposal of cases with the application of the rules and expedited procedures in the first-level courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000292", "start_seconds": 1948.3899999999999, "end_seconds": 1954.57, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The figures, however, Your Honor, only represent productivity and not the entirety of the performance." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000293", "start_seconds": 1955.05, "end_seconds": 1960.83, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Because under the SPJI, the Supreme Court has begun to pilot the high-performance courts framework." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000294", "start_seconds": 1961.37, "end_seconds": 1969.3899999999999, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Instead of just the number, it looks at internal processes, decision quality, court user satisfaction, and employee engagement." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000295", "start_seconds": 1969.3899999999999, "end_seconds": 1978.3899999999999, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "In that sense, the high-performance court, Your Honors, is the next evolution of our performance measurement from volume of output to decrement." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000296", "start_seconds": 1978.3899999999999, "end_seconds": 1981.45, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Quality and overall effectiveness of justice delivery." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000297", "start_seconds": 1981.91, "end_seconds": 1989.1100000000001, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So we are moving from measuring how much a court does to understanding how well a court delivers justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000298", "start_seconds": 1989.55, "end_seconds": 2006.8899999999999, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honors, also another important component of our effort to improve court performance, which will affect case disposition, is the continuing professionalization and decentralization of court administration through the Office of the Regional Court Managers, or ORCMs." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000299", "start_seconds": 2006.8899999999999, "end_seconds": 2008.17, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The objective is to..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000300", "start_seconds": 2008.3899999999999, "end_seconds": 2021.13, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Allow our courts to focus on their core mandate in the adjudication and disposition of cases, while administrative and operational requirements are increasingly supported through a dedicated court management structure." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000301", "start_seconds": 2021.67, "end_seconds": 2025.37, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So this directly supports our high-performance courts initiative." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000302", "start_seconds": 2025.37, "end_seconds": 2030.05, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "A high-performance court should not only dispose of cases efficiently." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000303", "start_seconds": 2030.51, "end_seconds": 2038.37, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "It should have the administrative support systems that enable judges and court personnel to devote more of their time and attention to their primary..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000304", "start_seconds": 2038.3899999999999, "end_seconds": 2039.3899999999999, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "judicial functions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000305", "start_seconds": 2039.3899999999999, "end_seconds": 2047.3899999999999, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Now, for our SPJI reforms, Your Honor, we likewise listed our milestones for our... for 2026." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000306", "start_seconds": 2047.3899999999999, "end_seconds": 2065.39, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honors, we have always invoked that the SPJI is our roadmap for transforming the judiciary, not only through technology, but through improvements in the way courts are managed, cases are processed, resources are administered, and services are delivered to the public." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000307", "start_seconds": 2065.39, "end_seconds": 2067.59, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "What we present in these slides are milestones of the SPJI reform." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000308", "start_seconds": 2067.59, "end_seconds": 2068.11, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000309", "start_seconds": 2068.11, "end_seconds": 2070.93, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "And now we would like to thank the Office of the Regional Court Managers for their holistic participation in this program." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000310", "start_seconds": 2070.93, "end_seconds": 2078.67, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "They demonstrate that the judiciary has already moved from planning to actual implementation across a broad range of areas." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000311", "start_seconds": 2079.15, "end_seconds": 2088.17, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "These initiatives include the eCourt PH, the eCourt, and the Philippine Judiciary Platform, which support the digitalization of court processes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000312", "start_seconds": 2088.71, "end_seconds": 2096.29, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The AI system of voice-to-text transcription, which is listed as number one, which can assist in the preparation of transcripts and court records." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000313", "start_seconds": 2096.29, "end_seconds": 2097.73, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We likewise have the development..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000314", "start_seconds": 2098.11, "end_seconds": 2105.37, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "of the ICT governance framework, the ICT strategic plan, cloud infrastructure, connectivity and data" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000315", "start_seconds": 2105.37, "end_seconds": 2111.55, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "center capabilities which provide the technological backbone for these reforms. We are likewise" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000316", "start_seconds": 2111.55, "end_seconds": 2117.13, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "building systems for financial management, human resource management, procurement, electronic" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000317", "start_seconds": 2117.13, "end_seconds": 2122.73, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "payments, online learning and case and court facility management. These are important because" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000318", "start_seconds": 2122.73, "end_seconds": 2128.71, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "modernization is not confined to what happens inside the courtroom because it also involves" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000319", "start_seconds": 2128.71, "end_seconds": 2134.17, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "modernizing the administrative systems that support the courts. We are also developing" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000320", "start_seconds": 2134.17, "end_seconds": 2140.09, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "initiatives that directly improve access to the justice system including the unified legal aid" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000321", "start_seconds": 2140.09, "end_seconds": 2146.39, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "service portal, e-notarization and other online services for the bar and other justice sectors" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000322", "start_seconds": 2146.39, "end_seconds": 2152.21, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "stakeholders. The significance of these initiatives, your honors, is that they are designed to cascade" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000323", "start_seconds": 2152.21, "end_seconds": 2152.71, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "beyond the court system. We are also developing initiatives that directly improve access to the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000324", "start_seconds": 2152.71, "end_seconds": 2158.57, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Supreme Court and benefit the courts throughout the country. The objective is not to create" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000325", "start_seconds": 2158.57, "end_seconds": 2164.39, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "isolated technological solutions but to build an integrated judiciary in which information," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000326", "start_seconds": 2165.17, "end_seconds": 2173.61, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "systems, processes and resources can support courts at every level. For our JSCC, your honors," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000327", "start_seconds": 2174.21, "end_seconds": 2179.59, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the flagship program of the JSCC or the Justice Sector Coordinating Council under the Justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000328", "start_seconds": 2179.59, "end_seconds": 2183.9700000000003, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Convergence Program is the Justice Zone. At the local level, the JSCC is the justice zone." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000329", "start_seconds": 2183.9700000000003, "end_seconds": 2187.13, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "At the local level, the different pillars of the criminal justice system come together" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000330", "start_seconds": 2187.13, "end_seconds": 2192.41, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "to identify the actual causes of delay and inefficiency and develop coordinated" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000331", "start_seconds": 2192.41, "end_seconds": 2198.09, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "locally responsive solutions despite the difference in our mandate. For now, your honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000332", "start_seconds": 2198.23, "end_seconds": 2203.61, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "we have developed 20 justice systems. We have Zambanga City, which we have declared the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000333", "start_seconds": 2203.61, "end_seconds": 2208.13, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "trafficking-free justice zone. We have Tagaytay City Justice Zone, which we have declared the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000334", "start_seconds": 2208.13, "end_seconds": 2213.85, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "economic development and tourism justice zone. We have Puerto Princesa or the green justice zone." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000335", "start_seconds": 2213.9700000000003, "end_seconds": 2221.17, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We have likewise Iligan, Ozamis, Cagayan de Oro, Tacloban or Moc and Calbayog as our anti-OSIAC" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000336", "start_seconds": 2221.17, "end_seconds": 2228.01, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "justice zones or the online sexual exploitation of children justice zones. Another important" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000337", "start_seconds": 2228.01, "end_seconds": 2232.89, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "initiative of the judiciary, your honors, is the establishment and strengthening of the Office of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000338", "start_seconds": 2232.89, "end_seconds": 2239.11, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the Judiciary Marshals pursuant to Republic Act 1169 or the Judiciary Marshals Act. The funding" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000339", "start_seconds": 2239.11, "end_seconds": 2243.95, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "supports the development of a professional judiciary marshal organization with capability," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000340", "start_seconds": 2243.9700000000003, "end_seconds": 2250.37, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "judicial security and operations, investigation and intelligence, legal services and digital" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000341", "start_seconds": 2250.37, "end_seconds": 2255.77, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "forensics. Its function includes threat assessment, investigation, forensic analysis," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000342", "start_seconds": 2256.29, "end_seconds": 2260.17, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "protection of court facilities and personnel, even their members of the families," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000343", "start_seconds": 2260.51, "end_seconds": 2266.75, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "and ensuring that court proceedings are conducted in a safe and orderly environment. In our 2026" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000344", "start_seconds": 2266.75, "end_seconds": 2273.25, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "GAIA, your honor, we were only allowed a budget of 710 million and we still need to fill in the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000345", "start_seconds": 2273.25, "end_seconds": 2273.95, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "vacancies of the plantilla, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000346", "start_seconds": 2273.9700000000003, "end_seconds": 2274.11, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So we are proposing a budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000347", "start_seconds": 2274.11, "end_seconds": 2281.93, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "plantilia, your honor. So we are proposing a budget of 902 million 75 thousand pesos or an" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000348", "start_seconds": 2281.93, "end_seconds": 2289.45, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "increase of 25, 27 percent. For the Philippine bar as an investment in the bar and in the legal" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000349", "start_seconds": 2289.45, "end_seconds": 2294.85, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "profession and to improve the quality, efficiency, accessibility and integrity in the admission of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000350", "start_seconds": 2294.85, "end_seconds": 2300.55, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the profession, the Supreme Court holds the annual bar exams and the sharia special bar exams." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000351", "start_seconds": 2300.75, "end_seconds": 2303.93, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We are midstream now, your honor, in the current," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000352", "start_seconds": 2303.9700000000003, "end_seconds": 2311.59, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "bar examinations having just conducted the second day of the bar exam yesterday uh for now your" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000353", "start_seconds": 2311.59, "end_seconds": 2319.04, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Honor, for our 2026 GAA of 800—" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000353-split-2", "start_seconds": 2319.04, "end_seconds": 2321.6, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Good morning, Your Honor, Mr. Chair." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000353-split-3", "start_seconds": 2321.6, "end_seconds": 2323.79, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Before you proceed, we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000354", "start_seconds": 2323.79, "end_seconds": 2328.69, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "acknowledge the presence of the chairperson of the on of the committee on finance senator jv" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000355", "start_seconds": 2328.69, "end_seconds": 2334.9700000000003, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "thank you for joining us uh senator jv uh do you have" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000356", "start_seconds": 2334.9700000000003, "end_seconds": 2340.81, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "okay after the presentation we will give the floor to send the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000357", "start_seconds": 2340.81, "end_seconds": 2346.08, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "senator jv for his opening statement please proceed yes" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000357-split-2", "start_seconds": 2346.08, "end_seconds": 2347.9700000000003, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "good morning uh mr chair thank you" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000358", "start_seconds": 2347.9700000000003, "end_seconds": 2354.4700000000003, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "your honor so uh for the philippine bar examinations for 2025 and 2026 your honor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000359", "start_seconds": 2354.4700000000003, "end_seconds": 2358.59, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "uh just for the record the number of applicants that have applied to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000360", "start_seconds": 2358.59, "end_seconds": 2358.67, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "take the September 2026 bar" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000361", "start_seconds": 2358.67, "end_seconds": 2367.5299999999997, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the september 2026 bar numbered 14 291 and we have developed 15 local centers local testing" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000362", "start_seconds": 2367.5299999999997, "end_seconds": 2372.93, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "centers there are seven in the national capital region three in luzon three in visayas and two" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000363", "start_seconds": 2372.93, "end_seconds": 2378.57, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "in mindanao to make the testing examination more accessible to our bar examinees so" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000364", "start_seconds": 2378.57, "end_seconds": 2383.75, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the bar examinees have not yet completed because we have one day" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000365", "start_seconds": 2383.75, "end_seconds": 2388.57, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "remaining which is scheduled this sunday your honor for the sharia" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000366", "start_seconds": 2388.57, "end_seconds": 2393.93, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "special bar exams your honor uh which was just concluded last may 24 and 27" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000367", "start_seconds": 2393.93, "end_seconds": 2400.19, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the number of applicants numbered 1055 and we have developed four local testing centers" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000368", "start_seconds": 2400.19, "end_seconds": 2411.83, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "one in ncr and three in mindanao 796 completed the exam and 235 examinees passed it or a total of 29.52" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000369", "start_seconds": 2411.83, "end_seconds": 2419.63, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "percent for our halls of justice your honor the investment in hojs is intended to provide our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000371", "start_seconds": 2419.71, "end_seconds": 2423.39, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "courts with safe, secure, accessible" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000372", "start_seconds": 2423.39, "end_seconds": 2425.87, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "and functional facilities that are appropriate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000373", "start_seconds": 2425.87, "end_seconds": 2430.01, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "for the administration of justice. This includes" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000374", "start_seconds": 2430.01, "end_seconds": 2436.67, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "adequate courtrooms chambers offices waiting areas facilities for vulnerable litigants and spaces" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000375", "start_seconds": 2436.67, "end_seconds": 2442.57, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "that support modern court operations for the judiciary therefore we have ongoing projects" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000376", "start_seconds": 2442.57, "end_seconds": 2449.49, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "new construction or ongoing procurement with the back hoj we have identified 12 projects and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000377", "start_seconds": 2449.49, "end_seconds": 2455.63, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "management we have nine projects those undergoing general repair and rehabilitation we have 15" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000378", "start_seconds": 2455.63, "end_seconds": 2461.35, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "ongoing procurement with the back HOJ we have nine implement project implementation and management" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000379", "start_seconds": 2461.35, "end_seconds": 2467.95, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "for refurbishment of office space we have seven ongoing procurement with back HOJ and for project" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000380", "start_seconds": 2467.95, "end_seconds": 2475.07, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "implementation and management we have nine or a total of 34 ongoing procurement and 27 ongoing" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000381", "start_seconds": 2475.07, "end_seconds": 2481.67, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "project management to break it down your honor if we would like to mention the courts that are" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000382", "start_seconds": 2481.67, "end_seconds": 2487.91, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "affected in the ongoing procurement with the back HOJ we have repairs and rehabilitation in Angeles" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000383", "start_seconds": 2487.91, "end_seconds": 2495.99, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "City, Bay City Negros Occidental, Bansud Oriental Mindoro, Barugo Leyte, Latinidad Benguet, Malinao" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000384", "start_seconds": 2495.99, "end_seconds": 2503.25, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Aklan, Medina Misamis Oriental, Olongapo City, Oroquieta City Misamis Occidental, San Miguel" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000385", "start_seconds": 2503.25, "end_seconds": 2505.05, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Zamboanga del Sur, Taf" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000386", "start_seconds": 2505.05, "end_seconds": 2513.41, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Samar, Tarangan, Tam Samar, Villaba Leyte, Wow Lanao del Sur and all HOJs in regions" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000387", "start_seconds": 2513.41, "end_seconds": 2523.39, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "eight I'm sorry nine ten and the Caraga region or all in all 15. Those undergoing new construction" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000388", "start_seconds": 2523.39, "end_seconds": 2529.73, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "your honor but still undergoing procurement we have in Barasca Tanduanes, Benito Soliven," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000389", "start_seconds": 2529.73, "end_seconds": 2533.89, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Kandihay Bohol, Imus Cavite, Lawag City," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000390", "start_seconds": 2534.43, "end_seconds": 2535.01, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Legaspi," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000391", "start_seconds": 2535.05, "end_seconds": 2542.31, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "City Family Court, Lucena City, Quezon, Masbate City, Masbate, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Sagay" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000392", "start_seconds": 2542.31, "end_seconds": 2550.25, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Negros Occidental, San Pablo City, Laguna and Virac Catanduanes or a total of 12 HOJs. For" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000393", "start_seconds": 2550.25, "end_seconds": 2557.21, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "refurbishment or still undergoing procurement we have seven projects located in Bogasong Antique," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000394", "start_seconds": 2557.49, "end_seconds": 2564.85, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Binan, Laguna for regional trial courts 152 up to 155, Danau City, Cebu, Lingayen, Pangasinan," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000395", "start_seconds": 2565.05, "end_seconds": 2579.73, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "San Pedro, Laguna particularly regional trial court branch 171, Tandag City, Surigao Del Sur, Ubay, Bohol Family Court II under a deed of use of pra." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000396", "start_seconds": 2579.73, "end_seconds": 2590.17, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Those ongoing project implementation, Your Honor, we have 27 projects. These are midstream through construction. We have Bacolod City, Negros Oriental," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000397", "start_seconds": 2590.17, "end_seconds": 2593.67, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Bangaga, Davao Oriental, Balangiga, Eastern Summer," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000398", "start_seconds": 2594.17, "end_seconds": 2597.01, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya, Bogos City, Cebu," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000399", "start_seconds": 2597.51, "end_seconds": 2600.39, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Bulan, Sorsogon, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000400", "start_seconds": 2600.87, "end_seconds": 2605.05, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Caloocan, Dimataling, Zamboanga del Sur," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000401", "start_seconds": 2605.17, "end_seconds": 2608.73, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Dumaguete City, Dumalinao, Zamboanga del Sur," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000402", "start_seconds": 2608.89, "end_seconds": 2611.59, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Guagua, Pampanga, Gitan, Eastern Summer," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000403", "start_seconds": 2611.85, "end_seconds": 2613.9700000000003, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Iloilo City, First and Second Level Courts," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000404", "start_seconds": 2614.27, "end_seconds": 2615.05, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "especially now." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000405", "start_seconds": 2615.15, "end_seconds": 2615.63, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000406", "start_seconds": 2615.63, "end_seconds": 2618.91, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "No need to go through each of them." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000407", "start_seconds": 2618.91, "end_seconds": 2625.57, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Anyway, you can give a few and then we can proceed to the next." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000408", "start_seconds": 2626.21, "end_seconds": 2626.73, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000409", "start_seconds": 2626.93, "end_seconds": 2627.61, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Most of them." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000410", "start_seconds": 2628.05, "end_seconds": 2629.11, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "The next 44." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000411", "start_seconds": 2629.49, "end_seconds": 2629.79, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000412", "start_seconds": 2630.77, "end_seconds": 2634.55, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Just to show that we are moving with our infrastructure projects, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000413", "start_seconds": 2634.69, "end_seconds": 2635.59, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yes, ma'am. Go ahead." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000414", "start_seconds": 2635.83, "end_seconds": 2637.95, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "If we can move to the JBC, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000415", "start_seconds": 2638.31, "end_seconds": 2638.69, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yes, please." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000416", "start_seconds": 2638.71, "end_seconds": 2643.19, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "It is really important now since it is part of our request for augmentation" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000417", "start_seconds": 2643.19, "end_seconds": 2648.15, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "to open up even unorganized courts without the NOSCA, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000418", "start_seconds": 2648.15, "end_seconds": 2648.27, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000419", "start_seconds": 2648.27, "end_seconds": 2658.9700000000003, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So that will be a total actually of 489 organized and unorganized courts" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000420", "start_seconds": 2658.9700000000003, "end_seconds": 2663.09, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "that needs to be filled in, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000421", "start_seconds": 2663.55, "end_seconds": 2669.35, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So for the year, the Judicial and Bar Council has declared its performance" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000422", "start_seconds": 2669.35, "end_seconds": 2670.89, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "of next stage." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000423", "start_seconds": 2671.19, "end_seconds": 2674.73, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "It requires a lot of process, Your Honor, and you would know that, Mr. Chair," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000424", "start_seconds": 2674.73, "end_seconds": 2677.73, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "because it is not just receiving the application," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000425", "start_seconds": 2678.27, "end_seconds": 2682.37, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "of these interested applicants, but they undergo a lot of screening process" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000426", "start_seconds": 2682.37, "end_seconds": 2686.37, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "from the first deliberation to interview, psychological evaluation," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000427", "start_seconds": 2686.95, "end_seconds": 2689.09, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "second deliberation, and then the final deliberation." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000428", "start_seconds": 2689.4700000000003, "end_seconds": 2694.57, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So for the year, fiscal year 2025, the number of nominees that were processed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000429", "start_seconds": 2694.57, "end_seconds": 2700.0, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "or applications processed is 5,971, and the number of nominees, 1,000." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000430", "start_seconds": 2700.0, "end_seconds": 2708.64, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "1,127 that were shortlisted. And it was increased for the year 2026 to the number of applications" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000431", "start_seconds": 2708.64, "end_seconds": 2716.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "processed, 9,793. The number of nominees shortlisted, 1,983, Your Honor. If we move on" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000432", "start_seconds": 2716.6, "end_seconds": 2721.04, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "to the educational arm of the Supreme Court, which is the Philippine Judicial Academy, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000433", "start_seconds": 2721.44, "end_seconds": 2727.16, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the accomplishment rate from our core programs, special focus programs, conventions and seminars," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000434", "start_seconds": 2727.16, "end_seconds": 2737.72, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "we have a total of 52 for trainings, programs and activities, and a total participants of 8,466" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000435", "start_seconds": 2737.72, "end_seconds": 2743.22, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "judges and court personnel. You would see, Your Honor, the next slide that much of our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000436", "start_seconds": 2743.22, "end_seconds": 2750.68, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "digitalization is working on, because most of our activities are done asynchronously rather than in" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000437", "start_seconds": 2750.68, "end_seconds": 2755.76, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "person, so that it likewise reaches out to members of judges and court personnel who are" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000438", "start_seconds": 2755.76, "end_seconds": 2757.14, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "in the court." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000439", "start_seconds": 2757.16, "end_seconds": 2762.76, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "In the Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, because the main headquarters of the Philippine Judicial Academy" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000440", "start_seconds": 2762.76, "end_seconds": 2769.12, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "is in Tagaytay or in Luzon. So that's about it, Your Honor. That is our budget presentation." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000441", "start_seconds": 2769.86, "end_seconds": 2770.18, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000442", "start_seconds": 2770.22, "end_seconds": 2777.96, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you, Justice Esto Estac. We now give the floor to our chairperson of the Committee on" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000443", "start_seconds": 2777.96, "end_seconds": 2780.88, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Finance, Senator JV. Go ahead." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000444", "start_seconds": 2781.24, "end_seconds": 2785.7, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning. Good morning to our Senate President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000445", "start_seconds": 2785.7, "end_seconds": 2785.8, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Magandang umaga po sa inyong lahat." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000446", "start_seconds": 2787.16, "end_seconds": 2792.84, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Good morning to our Vice Chair, Senator Francis Pangilinan. Of course, to our respected distinguished" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000447", "start_seconds": 2792.84, "end_seconds": 2799.44, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "associate justices of the Supreme Court, presiding justices and associate justices of our appellate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000448", "start_seconds": 2799.44, "end_seconds": 2804.06, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and specialized courts, court administrators, colleagues in the Senate, and all our esteemed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000449", "start_seconds": 2804.06, "end_seconds": 2809.92, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "guests present today, we fully recognize and uphold the judiciary's vital role as an independent" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000450", "start_seconds": 2809.92, "end_seconds": 2816.06, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "co-equal branch of government. As such, for the judiciary to remain fully, truly independent and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000451", "start_seconds": 2816.06, "end_seconds": 2817.14, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "perform its constitutional mandate." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000452", "start_seconds": 2817.16, "end_seconds": 2817.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "It" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000453", "start_seconds": 2817.5, "end_seconds": 2823.64, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "must have sufficient control over its resources. This is why we supported the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000454", "start_seconds": 2823.64, "end_seconds": 2830.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "enactment of Republic Act No. 12233 or the Judiciary Fiscal Autonomy Act. The proposed budget of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000455", "start_seconds": 2830.9, "end_seconds": 2838.36, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "the judiciary for the fiscal year 2027 marks the very first year of the implementation of this law." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000456", "start_seconds": 2839.08, "end_seconds": 2845.64, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "While we advocate the judicial independence, our basic principle is still we want to ensure that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000457", "start_seconds": 2845.64, "end_seconds": 2847.14, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "every peso invested in our justice system directly reduces trial bottlenecks," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000458", "start_seconds": 2847.16, "end_seconds": 2875.64, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "modernizes our courthouses and delivers swift, accessible justice to every Filipino. I look forward to a very productive discussion today, Mr. Chair. We are very much in full support of the judiciary." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000459", "start_seconds": 2875.64, "end_seconds": 2881.28, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Kaya maraming-maraming salamat po. Thank you very much for being here." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000459-split-2", "start_seconds": 2881.28, "end_seconds": 2884.58, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you, Senator JV. We now give the floor to our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000460", "start_seconds": 2884.58, "end_seconds": 2888.96, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "senate president for his questions go ahead uh" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000460-split-2", "start_seconds": 2888.96, "end_seconds": 2892.98, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "thank you mr chairman well first uh of all um" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000461", "start_seconds": 2892.98, "end_seconds": 2901.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "let me um commend the judiciary for uh an efficient use of your budget uh so looking at" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000462", "start_seconds": 2901.2, "end_seconds": 2908.68, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "uh one of the things that we measure uh the different agencies the utilization of the budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000463", "start_seconds": 2908.68, "end_seconds": 2916.54, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "and for 2024 it's 98 percent in 2025 it's 99 percent" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000464", "start_seconds": 2916.54, "end_seconds": 2925.72, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "goes to show that um not only efficient but" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000465", "start_seconds": 2925.72, "end_seconds": 2928.58, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "um in some cases" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000466", "start_seconds": 2928.58, "end_seconds": 2930.38, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "especially in" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000467", "start_seconds": 2930.38, "end_seconds": 2930.84, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "yes" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000468", "start_seconds": 2930.84, "end_seconds": 2931.18, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "uh" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000469", "start_seconds": 2931.18, "end_seconds": 2938.1, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "the lower courts or the courts near to our constituents so i just want to ask um" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000470", "start_seconds": 2938.1, "end_seconds": 2945.84, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "because i was looking at the uh accomplishment rates and uh a lot of the accomplishment rates" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000471", "start_seconds": 2945.84, "end_seconds": 2947.82, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "are past a hundred percent so" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000472", "start_seconds": 2947.82, "end_seconds": 2953.92, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Ibig sabihin sobra ho sila sa target nila. But on the ground, whenever I go around, especially in cities," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000473", "start_seconds": 2953.92, "end_seconds": 2963.02, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Ah may mga courts talaga na ang isang court ang hawak nilang kaso napakadami, no? So may uneven" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000532", "start_seconds": 2963.02, "end_seconds": 2991.94, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "in other words and even po yung case load ng mga judges natin i would assume in the provinces it will be much lower therefore the accomplishment rate is much faster or higher yes but in the cities especially in areas commercial areas i would assume that the case load is higher so yes um do we have any data to show ano po yung average case loads ng mga" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000533", "start_seconds": 2993.02, "end_seconds": 3019.16, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "lower courts natin in um first level courts and and second level courts um then let's divide them into cities and also into municipalities because we cannot compare apples to apples the same case for classrooms um normally here in metro manila it's always uh congested but in the provinces um it's not congested but when you look at system wide" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000534", "start_seconds": 3019.16, "end_seconds": 3020.4, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "mukhang walang problema" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000535", "start_seconds": 3020.4, "end_seconds": 3021.98, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "no because the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000536", "start_seconds": 3021.98, "end_seconds": 3022.16, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "classroom" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000537", "start_seconds": 3023.02, "end_seconds": 3024.54, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "ratio is low" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000538", "start_seconds": 3024.54, "end_seconds": 3026.36, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "in the same case with" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000539", "start_seconds": 3026.36, "end_seconds": 3028.6, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "case loads i would assume that in the cities" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000540", "start_seconds": 3028.6, "end_seconds": 3029.9, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "matataas mo no so we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000541", "start_seconds": 3029.9, "end_seconds": 3031.46, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "can we have um" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000542", "start_seconds": 3031.46, "end_seconds": 3034.44, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "um information that on that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000543", "start_seconds": 3034.44, "end_seconds": 3036.16, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "because my next question will be" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000544", "start_seconds": 3036.16, "end_seconds": 3037.2799999999997, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "are there" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000545", "start_seconds": 3037.2799999999997, "end_seconds": 3040.32, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "lgus or areas wherein we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000546", "start_seconds": 3040.32, "end_seconds": 3042.04, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "need to add more courts" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000547", "start_seconds": 3042.04, "end_seconds": 3044.1, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "no uh alam nyo" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000548", "start_seconds": 3044.1, "end_seconds": 3046.36, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "ang paborito pong batas" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000549", "start_seconds": 3046.36, "end_seconds": 3048.1, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "ng mga mambabatas" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000550", "start_seconds": 3048.1, "end_seconds": 3049.46, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "is magdagdag ng courts" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000551", "start_seconds": 3049.46, "end_seconds": 3051.62, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "no kahit na walang kailangan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000552", "start_seconds": 3051.62, "end_seconds": 3052.5, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "na court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000552-split-2", "start_seconds": 3052.5, "end_seconds": 3053.08, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "yes po" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000553", "start_seconds": 3053.08, "end_seconds": 3072.66, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "diba ganun talaga eh um kaya pag minsan pag um i'm sure sa committee on justice marami yan and uh we notice lang na some of the areas hindi naman kailangan ng courts but may may no it's a it's a bragging right eh no so do we have yes so that we will be guided accordingly and be rational in approving the loss" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000554", "start_seconds": 3072.66, "end_seconds": 3080.62, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "mayroon ba tayong matrix that for example this area we need more courts because the case load is higher um do we have that data" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000555", "start_seconds": 3080.62, "end_seconds": 3080.9, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "um" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000575", "start_seconds": 3082.7799999999997, "end_seconds": 3083.68, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "While we are getting the data, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000600", "start_seconds": 3085.76, "end_seconds": 3112.76, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you for asking. But I can particularly point because this one really comes from me personally in uh in the our courts in das marinas your honor for one we have actually written uh the uh we have written uh the house the house of representatives to create more courts or branches in the regional trial court of das marinas for the simple reason that as of july 31 20 26 your honor the pending cases are 6 567" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000601", "start_seconds": 3112.7799999999997, "end_seconds": 3116.52, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "cases and the judges or number of branches are only" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000602", "start_seconds": 3116.52, "end_seconds": 3142.76, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "they're only less than just a minute your honor i i forgot because we just visited them a month ago that's why we wrote uh the the the house of representatives to create uh more branches and uh family courts other than the fact that they are situated in a very small area and we now plan to transfer them to another one but it's still ongoing uh uh assessment" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000603", "start_seconds": 3142.7799999999997, "end_seconds": 3160.84, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "your honor but we are about to move them out to make the uh to deliver better services and to make our judges feel that it is a dignified court your honor um for the bottleneck or the constraint will be the area yes the land yes" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000604", "start_seconds": 3160.84, "end_seconds": 3162.04, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "i think" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000605", "start_seconds": 3162.04, "end_seconds": 3171.84, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "um just submit to the committee uh just divided to divided to municipalities and to cities where" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000606", "start_seconds": 3171.84, "end_seconds": 3172.12, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "more" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000607", "start_seconds": 3172.12, "end_seconds": 3172.56, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "i think" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000608", "start_seconds": 3172.56, "end_seconds": 3172.76, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "i think" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000609", "start_seconds": 3172.76, "end_seconds": 3181.44, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "i'm more uh interested looking at the caseload per per sala or caseload per judge in the cities" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000610", "start_seconds": 3181.44, "end_seconds": 3191.54, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "especially in um highly urbanized city because there are a lot of businesses there a lot of businesses" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000611", "start_seconds": 3191.54, "end_seconds": 3197.68, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "and obviously if there are such transactions there are some we cannot avoid but there are" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000612", "start_seconds": 3197.68, "end_seconds": 3202.54, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "issues that are emerging unless you have it now but if not you can just submit it to the committee" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000613", "start_seconds": 3202.54, "end_seconds": 3205.44, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "submitted to the committee so we'll be guided accordingly" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000613-split-2", "start_seconds": 3205.44, "end_seconds": 3207.24, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "yes sir we do not have the data now" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000614", "start_seconds": 3207.24, "end_seconds": 3213.06, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "if it is per city your honor but we will submit the data uh per your requirement to reach an" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000615", "start_seconds": 3213.06, "end_seconds": 3220.26, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "acceptable level of caseload per judge how much do we need for a level court uh ideal number is" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000616", "start_seconds": 3220.26, "end_seconds": 3226.4, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "300 your honor and for a second level court it's 500 but as it is your honor our judges handle" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000617", "start_seconds": 3226.4, "end_seconds": 3232.38, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "more than that particularly in the uh ncjr region your honor but just to give you a" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000618", "start_seconds": 3232.38, "end_seconds": 3237.64, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "ballpark figure on or if it is an overall our second level course your honor a total of their" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000619", "start_seconds": 3237.64, "end_seconds": 3246.46, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "pending cases um is 376 926 sometimes we cannot shake off the outflow and the inflow of cases" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000620", "start_seconds": 3246.46, "end_seconds": 3254.68, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "because what's coming in will be 226 263 other than those that are revived and reopened which" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000621", "start_seconds": 3254.68, "end_seconds": 3262.02, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "for the for january to december 2025 your honor amounted to 79 084 and this is just the rtc" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000622", "start_seconds": 3262.38, "end_seconds": 3271.32, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "for first level courts your honor it is uh it's uh more volume if we look at our mtc mtccs mtcs and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000623", "start_seconds": 3271.32, "end_seconds": 3282.02, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "mctc so that's uh for december 31 2024 pending it's 572 250 cases and as of december 31 2025" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000624", "start_seconds": 3282.02, "end_seconds": 3291.96, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "it only got lower by a little 519 356 because those ruffled were 449 294" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000625", "start_seconds": 3292.38, "end_seconds": 3300.32, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "and those revived or reopened 210 981 so there's actually even if we try to accomplish more by" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000626", "start_seconds": 3300.32, "end_seconds": 3308.08, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "targeting um the the case disposal over the target case disposal and the actual case disposal and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000627", "start_seconds": 3308.08, "end_seconds": 3313.84, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "multiplied by 100 it will still be uh the disposition the disposition rate will still" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000628", "start_seconds": 3313.84, "end_seconds": 3321.66, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "be lower or for january to december 2026 for all courts your honor disposition rate is 56 percent" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000629", "start_seconds": 3322.38, "end_seconds": 3331.67, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "accomplishment rate is 142 percent very quickly how do you reconcile the accomplishment and the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000630", "start_seconds": 3331.67, "end_seconds": 3332.36, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "disposition" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000630-split-2", "start_seconds": 3332.36, "end_seconds": 3338.45, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "yes your honor percentages 56 is the is the disposition rate your honor but the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000631", "start_seconds": 3338.45, "end_seconds": 3345.19, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "accomplishment rate is 142 because the accomplishment rate your honor uh takes into" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000632", "start_seconds": 3345.19, "end_seconds": 3352.0299999999997, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "consideration total case disposal over target case disposal and multiply it 100 whereas this" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000633", "start_seconds": 3354.59, "end_seconds": 3358.0299999999997, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "total case disposal over total case input your honor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000634", "start_seconds": 3358.0299999999997, "end_seconds": 3368.82, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Are there, um, are there courts na thousands pa ang hinahawakan ng isang judge?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000635", "start_seconds": 3368.82, "end_seconds": 3369.0, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000635-split-2", "start_seconds": 3369.0, "end_seconds": 3372.16, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Other than the one in Dasma, would you like to— Meron ba tayong mga ganyan?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000636", "start_seconds": 3372.16, "end_seconds": 3379.12, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Kasi if the prescription is 300 per judge, I think this is for RTC." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000636-split-2", "start_seconds": 3379.12, "end_seconds": 3379.62, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "yes your honor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000637", "start_seconds": 3379.62, "end_seconds": 3385.64, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "um the mtc is your honors i have the expedited procedure which really helped them a lot" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000638", "start_seconds": 3386.0, "end_seconds": 3390.38, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "because every time they dispose of those falling under the rules on expedited procedure" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000639", "start_seconds": 3390.38, "end_seconds": 3395.48, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "especially small claims which is which actually accounts that uh the volume of the cases filed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000640", "start_seconds": 3395.48, "end_seconds": 3401.14, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "before the first level courts they have 24 hours to dispose so they have more disposal than the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000641", "start_seconds": 3401.14, "end_seconds": 3406.18, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "second level courts but there are really uh flag we can really flag certain areas of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000642", "start_seconds": 3406.18, "end_seconds": 3413.44, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "regional trial courts that have more than a thousand cases pending cases um we we do not" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000643", "start_seconds": 3413.44, "end_seconds": 3415.98, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "have the data again, Your Honor, but from my experience," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000644", "start_seconds": 3416.0, "end_seconds": 3418.54, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "other than Dasmariñas, that will be Cabuyao, Laguna." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000645", "start_seconds": 3418.54, "end_seconds": 3420.58, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We just had the judicial audit." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000646", "start_seconds": 3420.58, "end_seconds": 3421.7, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So many persons deprived of liberty." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000647", "start_seconds": 3421.7, "end_seconds": 3424.86, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "I've already talked to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000648", "start_seconds": 3424.86, "end_seconds": 3427.2200000000003, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the judge concerned. He actually resigned," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000649", "start_seconds": 3427.2200000000003, "end_seconds": 3431.98, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honor, as of August 31" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000650", "start_seconds": 3431.98, "end_seconds": 3435.94, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "because of health problems. He's facing a lot of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000651", "start_seconds": 3435.94, "end_seconds": 3440.68, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "health concerns, and it's really next to impossible that he handles all 5,000 cases," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000652", "start_seconds": 3440.68, "end_seconds": 3444.24, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "and he's the only one court in Cabuyao, Laguna, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000653", "start_seconds": 3444.24, "end_seconds": 3445.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "5,000 cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000654", "start_seconds": 3445.2, "end_seconds": 3445.96, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "5,000 plus." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000656", "start_seconds": 3445.96, "end_seconds": 3447.26, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Magre-resign talaga yung..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000657", "start_seconds": 3447.26, "end_seconds": 3448.18, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Magre-resign po siya." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000658", "start_seconds": 3448.44, "end_seconds": 3448.66, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Oo, wala." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000659", "start_seconds": 3450.64, "end_seconds": 3452.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Nagkasakit na po siya. Kaka-opera lang po niya." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000660", "start_seconds": 3454.04, "end_seconds": 3457.88, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So my point of the matter is, mayroon ba tayong study?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000661", "start_seconds": 3458.4, "end_seconds": 3463.86, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Just to make it a, doon sa benchmark na na-mention nyo." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000662", "start_seconds": 3464.1, "end_seconds": 3464.5, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Yes, pa." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000663", "start_seconds": 3464.7799999999997, "end_seconds": 3470.62, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "How much do we need in terms of investment so that we can lower down?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000664", "start_seconds": 3471.0, "end_seconds": 3475.02, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Obviously, the approach is to build more courts, to hire more judges." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000665", "start_seconds": 3475.02, "end_seconds": 3482.7200000000003, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "But do we have an estimate on how much do we need that in order to reach an acceptable level of caseload?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000666", "start_seconds": 3483.1, "end_seconds": 3494.5, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "If I may just, before you answer, if I may add, if you say ideal for first-level courts is 300 and for second-level courts is caseload of 500," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000667", "start_seconds": 3494.5, "end_seconds": 3504.5, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "if that is your ideal ratio or number, how much do you need to..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000668", "start_seconds": 3505.02, "end_seconds": 3513.2200000000003, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "In terms of creating more courts to reach this 300 ratio or 300 per court or 500 per court." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000669", "start_seconds": 3513.4, "end_seconds": 3515.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "That's probably, yeah." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000670", "start_seconds": 3515.46, "end_seconds": 3517.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Because that's what we want to happen." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000671", "start_seconds": 3519.4, "end_seconds": 3531.02, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "You're asking for an additional 5 billion, but if we want to know what do you need to reach this ratio so that we have an idea in terms of..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000672", "start_seconds": 3531.02, "end_seconds": 3535.0, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Actually, Your Honor, although no study, no formal study has been conducted," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000673", "start_seconds": 3535.02, "end_seconds": 3536.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "it is more into the system." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000674", "start_seconds": 3536.96, "end_seconds": 3542.08, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "That is why high-performance courts are being piloted because it is not just in the number." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000675", "start_seconds": 3542.68, "end_seconds": 3544.96, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "It is in the processes that are being made." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000676", "start_seconds": 3545.3, "end_seconds": 3550.2799999999997, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "It's in the digitization of the records and it's in the satisfaction of our external stakeholders." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000677", "start_seconds": 3550.88, "end_seconds": 3553.02, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Likewise, the engagement of our personnel." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000678", "start_seconds": 3553.7799999999997, "end_seconds": 3558.5, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Are they happy working so that it flows out from them, Your Honor?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000679", "start_seconds": 3558.76, "end_seconds": 3560.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "That's the present study that we're doing." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000680", "start_seconds": 3560.8, "end_seconds": 3564.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Although we will, because of your encouragement, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000681", "start_seconds": 3565.02, "end_seconds": 3567.2799999999997, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "we will conduct a study on that one." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000682", "start_seconds": 3567.56, "end_seconds": 3573.26, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "How much budget we need, is the answer really in creating more courts" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000683", "start_seconds": 3573.26, "end_seconds": 3578.38, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "or is it in systematizing our processes, modernizing our systems or both?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000684", "start_seconds": 3578.8, "end_seconds": 3582.1, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Because, for example, in the challenge for education," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000685", "start_seconds": 3582.42, "end_seconds": 3587.8, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "very clear, we have a backlog of 65,000 classrooms." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000686", "start_seconds": 3588.7, "end_seconds": 3590.1, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So then we do the math." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000687", "start_seconds": 3590.1, "end_seconds": 3593.1, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "If you have a backlog of 65,000 classrooms," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000688", "start_seconds": 3594.0, "end_seconds": 3595.0, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "how much do you need?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000689", "start_seconds": 3595.02, "end_seconds": 3596.2, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "How much do you need to produce that?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000690", "start_seconds": 3596.54, "end_seconds": 3599.92, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So in the same vein, what is your backlog?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000691", "start_seconds": 3600.0, "end_seconds": 3604.76, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "in terms of creation of courts in the area" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000692", "start_seconds": 3604.76, "end_seconds": 3607.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "so that we have a figure as to, therefore," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000693", "start_seconds": 3607.62, "end_seconds": 3609.66, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "how much will it cost in terms of personnel," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000694", "start_seconds": 3610.14, "end_seconds": 3614.38, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "in terms of infrastructure, and your first world budget." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000695", "start_seconds": 3614.64, "end_seconds": 3618.72, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "What is your first world budget that we will aspire for?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000696", "start_seconds": 3618.8, "end_seconds": 3625.96, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Maybe we should have a five-year, ten-year catch-up plan program" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000697", "start_seconds": 3625.96, "end_seconds": 3629.1, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "so that our chairman of the Committee on Finance" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000698", "start_seconds": 3629.1, "end_seconds": 3630.98, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "is very particular about infrastructure." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000699", "start_seconds": 3631.54, "end_seconds": 3636.36, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So the infrastructure requirement so that we achieve that for the judiciary." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000700", "start_seconds": 3637.82, "end_seconds": 3640.78, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But if it's not yet available…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000701", "start_seconds": 3640.78, "end_seconds": 3644.12, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Submit it to the committee so that we'll be guided." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000702", "start_seconds": 3644.12, "end_seconds": 3651.34, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So that we'll know the universe or a target that we will work on moving forward." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000703", "start_seconds": 3652.22, "end_seconds": 3652.98, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000704", "start_seconds": 3653.66, "end_seconds": 3654.02, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000705", "start_seconds": 3654.1, "end_seconds": 3656.82, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "But are there many cases of 5,000 per judge?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000706", "start_seconds": 3656.94, "end_seconds": 3657.7, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Are there many cases like that?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000707", "start_seconds": 3658.68, "end_seconds": 3659.08, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I'm sorry." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000708", "start_seconds": 3659.1, "end_seconds": 3661.72, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "I can also think of Antipolo, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000709", "start_seconds": 3661.98, "end_seconds": 3663.68, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Did you increase the health insurance?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000710", "start_seconds": 3664.42, "end_seconds": 3666.88, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Is the salary of 5,000 more?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000711", "start_seconds": 3667.94, "end_seconds": 3668.94, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Unfortunately, no." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000712", "start_seconds": 3669.32, "end_seconds": 3672.52, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Maybe we should triple the hazard pay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000713", "start_seconds": 3675.96, "end_seconds": 3679.68, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honor, may D.C. A. Lillian Baripalco be recognized because she has the data." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000714", "start_seconds": 3681.14, "end_seconds": 3682.54, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "Your Honors, good morning." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000715", "start_seconds": 3682.86, "end_seconds": 3685.28, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "Based on the records of the Court Management Office," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000716", "start_seconds": 3685.38, "end_seconds": 3687.18, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "of the Office of the Court Administrator," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000717", "start_seconds": 3687.18, "end_seconds": 3688.5, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "the pending cases," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000718", "start_seconds": 3688.5, "end_seconds": 3691.0, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "as of July 31, 2026," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000719", "start_seconds": 3691.22, "end_seconds": 3694.22, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "just to answer our courts," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000720", "start_seconds": 3694.8, "end_seconds": 3697.7, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "there are more than 1,000 cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000721", "start_seconds": 3698.26, "end_seconds": 3702.1, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "For example, we have Banguet-Abra, 1,210." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000722", "start_seconds": 3702.44, "end_seconds": 3705.84, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "Banguet-Bagu City, 2,281." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000723", "start_seconds": 3706.42, "end_seconds": 3710.62, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "We have one in Aguola-Union, 1,109." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000724", "start_seconds": 3711.12, "end_seconds": 3715.58, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "Then we have in Dagupan City, Pangasinan, 2,751." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000725", "start_seconds": 3715.58, "end_seconds": 3718.34, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "San Carlos City, Pangasinan also." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000726", "start_seconds": 3718.5, "end_seconds": 3720.5, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "1,300." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000727", "start_seconds": 3720.6, "end_seconds": 3724.82, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "1,007 for Urdaneta City, Pangasinan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000728", "start_seconds": 3725.06, "end_seconds": 3727.06, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "2,000, Mark." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000729", "start_seconds": 3727.06, "end_seconds": 3731.18, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "2,300 in Tugayarao City," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000730", "start_seconds": 3731.18, "end_seconds": 3733.68, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "although this is an aggregate for our stations" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000731", "start_seconds": 3733.84, "end_seconds": 3740.26, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "which has 2 or 3 RTC-S Courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000732", "start_seconds": 3740.26, "end_seconds": 3744.16, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "So, Ilagan-Isabela, 1,700." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000733", "start_seconds": 3744.58, "end_seconds": 3746.6, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "1,500 in Santiago City." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000734", "start_seconds": 3746.6, "end_seconds": 3748.32, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "We have one in . . ." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000735", "start_seconds": 3748.32, "end_seconds": 3751.26, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "in Bayumbong, 1,300." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000736", "start_seconds": 3752.22, "end_seconds": 3757.26, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "Balanga also has a higher caseload of 1,600." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000737", "start_seconds": 3758.02, "end_seconds": 3759.32, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "We have a very..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000738", "start_seconds": 3760.1, "end_seconds": 3763.14, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "Although Malolo City, your owners have many RTCs," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000739", "start_seconds": 3763.2, "end_seconds": 3767.32, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "but they have 10,700 aggregate number of caseload." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000740", "start_seconds": 3768.0, "end_seconds": 3769.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "How many RTCs in Malolo?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000741", "start_seconds": 3769.76, "end_seconds": 3771.66, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "In Malolo..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000742", "start_seconds": 3771.66, "end_seconds": 3773.56, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "RTCs in Malolo." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000743", "start_seconds": 3773.6, "end_seconds": 3774.58, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "RTCs in Malolo." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000744", "start_seconds": 3775.0, "end_seconds": 3776.68, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "We'll get the number, your owners." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000745", "start_seconds": 3778.32, "end_seconds": 3781.32, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "In Cabanatuan City, 2,600." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000746", "start_seconds": 3781.78, "end_seconds": 3783.54, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "Gapan, 2,300." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000747", "start_seconds": 3783.84, "end_seconds": 3786.78, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "If we're going to divide this on the number of RTCs," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000748", "start_seconds": 3786.98, "end_seconds": 3792.82, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "this will be more than the 500 our wish for average caseload." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000749", "start_seconds": 3793.42, "end_seconds": 3797.9, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "Then we have Angeles City, almost 4,000" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000750", "start_seconds": 3797.9, "end_seconds": 3801.06, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "for the entire RTC of Angeles City." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000751", "start_seconds": 3801.72, "end_seconds": 3805.2, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "Then we have Tarlac City, 2,500." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000752", "start_seconds": 3805.2, "end_seconds": 3808.2, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "And we have another one in..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000753", "start_seconds": 3808.32, "end_seconds": 3814.9, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "In Region 4, Bacoor, your owners, 4,745." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000754", "start_seconds": 3815.6, "end_seconds": 3819.34, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "And what has been mentioned by the court administrator in Dasmariñas," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000755", "start_seconds": 3819.44, "end_seconds": 3822.24, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "your owners, 6,567," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000756", "start_seconds": 3822.36, "end_seconds": 3825.3, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "with only three regional trial courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000757", "start_seconds": 3826.62, "end_seconds": 3826.78, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000758", "start_seconds": 3829.94, "end_seconds": 3831.28, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "567, your owners." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000759", "start_seconds": 3831.28, "end_seconds": 3836.02, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "With only three RTCs existing." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000760", "start_seconds": 3836.58, "end_seconds": 3837.62, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "Three RTCs." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000761", "start_seconds": 3838.32, "end_seconds": 3841.56, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "Three RTCs and four MTCCs." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000762", "start_seconds": 3843.02, "end_seconds": 3844.58, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "Divided by three courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000763", "start_seconds": 3845.06, "end_seconds": 3846.2, "speaker": "Deputy Court Administrator Lilian C. Barribal-Co", "text": "It's 500." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000764", "start_seconds": 3846.58, "end_seconds": 3847.76, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So if it's three..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000765", "start_seconds": 3847.76, "end_seconds": 3849.86, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Just to place it on record, Mr. President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000766", "start_seconds": 3850.36, "end_seconds": 3853.08, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Six, five, six, five," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000767", "start_seconds": 3853.6, "end_seconds": 3856.74, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "divided by 500, because it's RTC, right?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000768", "start_seconds": 3857.84, "end_seconds": 3861.7, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So you have to have 13 additional courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000769", "start_seconds": 3862.98, "end_seconds": 3863.12, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Right?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000770", "start_seconds": 3863.64, "end_seconds": 3864.32, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Ideally." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000771", "start_seconds": 3864.56, "end_seconds": 3865.02, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Ideally." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000772", "start_seconds": 3865.26, "end_seconds": 3865.8, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Ideally." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000773", "start_seconds": 3865.8, "end_seconds": 3865.96, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Ideally." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000774", "start_seconds": 3866.3, "end_seconds": 3867.2200000000003, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So that's what we want." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000775", "start_seconds": 3867.84, "end_seconds": 3868.2200000000003, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "At least." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000776", "start_seconds": 3868.32, "end_seconds": 3872.32, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "In terms of the universe of what we're working around." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000777", "start_seconds": 3872.68, "end_seconds": 3877.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So that we can put together the strategy," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000778", "start_seconds": 3877.76, "end_seconds": 3880.74, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "10 years, 7 years, to catch up." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000779", "start_seconds": 3881.26, "end_seconds": 3881.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Right?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000780", "start_seconds": 3882.56, "end_seconds": 3886.3, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "At least we know what's going on." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000781", "start_seconds": 3886.4, "end_seconds": 3891.2200000000003, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Imagine that, 13 additional courts for Dasmariñas to reach 500." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000782", "start_seconds": 3891.88, "end_seconds": 3893.94, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We have a pending letter on that, your honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000783", "start_seconds": 3894.18, "end_seconds": 3896.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "submitted to the House Speaker." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000784", "start_seconds": 3896.88, "end_seconds": 3897.2, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you, Mr. President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000785", "start_seconds": 3898.32, "end_seconds": 3899.4, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Just a little bit." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000786", "start_seconds": 3899.4, "end_seconds": 3899.7799999999997, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "How many?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000787", "start_seconds": 3900.4, "end_seconds": 3901.58, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "10,700." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000788", "start_seconds": 3901.82, "end_seconds": 3902.42, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "How many RTCs?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000789", "start_seconds": 3903.7200000000003, "end_seconds": 3905.9, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Anyway, if you get it, please." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000790", "start_seconds": 3906.76, "end_seconds": 3907.2, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Go ahead." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000791", "start_seconds": 3907.32, "end_seconds": 3907.9, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "You have the floor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000792", "start_seconds": 3908.84, "end_seconds": 3909.16, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000793", "start_seconds": 3909.34, "end_seconds": 3919.76, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Just submit to the committee and study on enriching that ideal number of caseload per judge or per court." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000794", "start_seconds": 3921.48, "end_seconds": 3922.68, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "How much will it cost?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000795", "start_seconds": 3923.2, "end_seconds": 3926.08, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Maybe we can have a program moving forward." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000796", "start_seconds": 3926.08, "end_seconds": 3928.08, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And if I may just add..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000797", "start_seconds": 3928.32, "end_seconds": 3930.66, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Mr. President," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000798", "start_seconds": 3931.46, "end_seconds": 3932.36, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "you know, they're asking," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000799", "start_seconds": 3932.7, "end_seconds": 3934.2799999999997, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the budget is 86 billion," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000800", "start_seconds": 3934.9, "end_seconds": 3937.6, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "but our entire national budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000801", "start_seconds": 3937.6, "end_seconds": 3941.3, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "is 6.7, 7.2 trillion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000802", "start_seconds": 3942.9, "end_seconds": 3943.18, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Isn't it?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000803", "start_seconds": 3943.7200000000003, "end_seconds": 3945.4, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "It's like..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000804", "start_seconds": 3945.4, "end_seconds": 3945.96, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "One person." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000805", "start_seconds": 3947.14, "end_seconds": 3948.7200000000003, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Less than one percent." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000806", "start_seconds": 3948.94, "end_seconds": 3951.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And it's a co-equal branch." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000807", "start_seconds": 3951.88, "end_seconds": 3953.08, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you very much, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000808", "start_seconds": 3953.08, "end_seconds": 3955.08, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "A third of the..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000809", "start_seconds": 3955.08, "end_seconds": 3958.24, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So if you want..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000810", "start_seconds": 3958.24, "end_seconds": 3959.38, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "One percent, right?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000811", "start_seconds": 3960.26, "end_seconds": 3961.14, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Mr. Chairman," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000812", "start_seconds": 3961.36, "end_seconds": 3963.36, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "if you look at the other side," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000813", "start_seconds": 3963.44, "end_seconds": 3964.56, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "it's also the litigants." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000814", "start_seconds": 3965.1, "end_seconds": 3966.42, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Imagine the litigants," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000815", "start_seconds": 3966.52, "end_seconds": 3967.2799999999997, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "it's a long wait" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000816", "start_seconds": 3967.2799999999997, "end_seconds": 3971.2200000000003, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "before their cases are to be heard." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000817", "start_seconds": 3971.52, "end_seconds": 3973.44, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Because if you're talking about" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000818", "start_seconds": 3973.44, "end_seconds": 3976.32, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "one judge holding 5,000 cases," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000819", "start_seconds": 3977.0, "end_seconds": 3979.98, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "there are only 365 days in a year." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000820", "start_seconds": 3980.82, "end_seconds": 3982.54, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "It's a long wait." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000821", "start_seconds": 3982.54, "end_seconds": 3984.06, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "It's a long wait." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000822", "start_seconds": 3984.26, "end_seconds": 3985.42, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So it's really..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000823", "start_seconds": 3985.42, "end_seconds": 3987.52, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "We really need to look at this angle" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000824", "start_seconds": 3987.52, "end_seconds": 3988.2200000000003, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "because if you..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000825", "start_seconds": 3988.2200000000003, "end_seconds": 3994.12, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "If we're not to make the wheels of justice turn faster," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000826", "start_seconds": 3994.2799999999997, "end_seconds": 3995.56, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "then we need to also invest." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000827", "start_seconds": 3996.38, "end_seconds": 3999.18, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And I may also add, again, the big picture," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000828", "start_seconds": 3999.66, "end_seconds": 4004.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "in education, in agriculture, in infrastructure," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000829", "start_seconds": 4004.86, "end_seconds": 4008.86, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "there is a correlation between the ideal percentage" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000830", "start_seconds": 4008.86, "end_seconds": 4011.08, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "of GDP for expenditures." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000831", "start_seconds": 4011.4, "end_seconds": 4013.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Would we have that for the judiciary?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000832", "start_seconds": 4013.76, "end_seconds": 4014.82, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "I'm not sure." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000833", "start_seconds": 4014.82, "end_seconds": 4017.82, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But I think there would be some..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000834", "start_seconds": 4018.2200000000003, "end_seconds": 4020.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "international benchmark" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000835", "start_seconds": 4020.62, "end_seconds": 4024.2200000000003, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "of how much the justice system in other countries" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000836", "start_seconds": 4024.2200000000003, "end_seconds": 4026.66, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "in terms of GDP is being spent." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000837", "start_seconds": 4026.88, "end_seconds": 4028.94, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Because then that should be, again," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000838", "start_seconds": 4029.56, "end_seconds": 4032.36, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "a benchmark that we should target moving forward." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000839", "start_seconds": 4034.5, "end_seconds": 4037.32, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So if we can also have that information" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000840", "start_seconds": 4037.32, "end_seconds": 4039.68, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "from the court administrator," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000841", "start_seconds": 4039.68, "end_seconds": 4040.94, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "it would help us." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000842", "start_seconds": 4041.8, "end_seconds": 4043.7799999999997, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "As we defend the budget on the floor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000843", "start_seconds": 4043.88, "end_seconds": 4045.26, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "we will say in other countries," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000844", "start_seconds": 4045.7200000000003, "end_seconds": 4047.66, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "this is the percent of GDP" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000845", "start_seconds": 4047.66, "end_seconds": 4049.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "that goes to the system of justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000846", "start_seconds": 4049.48, "end_seconds": 4050.64, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Of course, we will have to combine" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000847", "start_seconds": 4050.64, "end_seconds": 4053.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the DOJ and the judiciary." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000848", "start_seconds": 4053.34, "end_seconds": 4056.2, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But still, if you can separate it, even better." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000849", "start_seconds": 4057.54, "end_seconds": 4058.02, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Sorry." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000850", "start_seconds": 4060.02, "end_seconds": 4062.12, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000851", "start_seconds": 4062.2, "end_seconds": 4063.9, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "We'll just wait for that study" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000852", "start_seconds": 4063.9, "end_seconds": 4066.08, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "and some basic statistics" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000853", "start_seconds": 4066.08, "end_seconds": 4069.7799999999997, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "so that we can be guided accordingly." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000854", "start_seconds": 4070.16, "end_seconds": 4070.56, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000855", "start_seconds": 4070.56, "end_seconds": 4072.36, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I just have some items in the budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000856", "start_seconds": 4072.36, "end_seconds": 4074.36, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "that I saw..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000857", "start_seconds": 4079.04, "end_seconds": 4080.02, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "There's a lot of decrease." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000858", "start_seconds": 4080.8, "end_seconds": 4084.3, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "This is a locally funded project." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000859", "start_seconds": 4084.56, "end_seconds": 4085.06, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000860", "start_seconds": 4085.8, "end_seconds": 4087.62, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "From 9 billion last year" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000861", "start_seconds": 4087.62, "end_seconds": 4089.9, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "to about 2.4 billion this year." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000862", "start_seconds": 4089.9, "end_seconds": 4091.32, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And there are two items" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000863", "start_seconds": 4091.32, "end_seconds": 4093.94, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "that decreased substantially." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000864", "start_seconds": 4094.8, "end_seconds": 4096.46, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Construction, completion," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000865", "start_seconds": 4096.82, "end_seconds": 4100.06, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. 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Gatchalian", "text": "From 5.1 billion to 600 million." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000871", "start_seconds": 4112.46, "end_seconds": 4115.0599999999995, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Is there any particular reason?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000872", "start_seconds": 4115.36, "end_seconds": 4117.1, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Obviously, we're talking about" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000873", "start_seconds": 4117.1, "end_seconds": 4118.78, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "the construction of halls of justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000874", "start_seconds": 4119.3, "end_seconds": 4120.86, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "It's counterintuitive" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000875", "start_seconds": 4120.86, "end_seconds": 4123.62, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. 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Gatchalian", "text": "from 5.1 to 600 million." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000881", "start_seconds": 4138.04, "end_seconds": 4138.9, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "From 5.1 to 600 million." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000882", "start_seconds": 4139.04, "end_seconds": 4141.26, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Maybe we know the reason" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000883", "start_seconds": 4141.26, "end_seconds": 4143.98, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "why these two programs" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000884", "start_seconds": 4143.98, "end_seconds": 4145.98, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "under the locally funded projects" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000885", "start_seconds": 4145.98, "end_seconds": 4148.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "went down substantially." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000886", "start_seconds": 4149.2, "end_seconds": 4150.9400000000005, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000887", "start_seconds": 4151.4, "end_seconds": 4153.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "For the HOJ construction," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000888", "start_seconds": 4153.64, "end_seconds": 4154.08, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000889", "start_seconds": 4154.3, "end_seconds": 4156.08, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "although our budget reflected" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000890", "start_seconds": 4156.08, "end_seconds": 4157.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "in the 2026 GAAC," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000891", "start_seconds": 4158.0, "end_seconds": 4162.7, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "a budget of 2,688,606,000," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000892", "start_seconds": 4162.86, "end_seconds": 4166.28, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "it is because the construction" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000893", "start_seconds": 4166.28, "end_seconds": 4167.28, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "that we have" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000894", "start_seconds": 4167.28, "end_seconds": 4168.86, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "for the Manila Hall of Justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000895", "start_seconds": 4168.86, "end_seconds": 4169.86, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "was not included." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000896", "start_seconds": 4170.4, "end_seconds": 4171.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Instead, what we have" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000897", "start_seconds": 4171.42, "end_seconds": 4174.02, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "or what we've computed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000898", "start_seconds": 4174.02, "end_seconds": 4175.68, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "as the escalation cost." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000899", "start_seconds": 4178.32, "end_seconds": 4179.66, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "But for Cebu" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000900", "start_seconds": 4179.66, "end_seconds": 4181.82, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "and Cagayan de Oro construction," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000901", "start_seconds": 4182.26, "end_seconds": 4183.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "we have proposed an increase," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000902", "start_seconds": 4184.04, "end_seconds": 4185.98, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "actually, in the original budget proposal," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000903", "start_seconds": 4186.4400000000005, "end_seconds": 4187.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "200 million total." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000904", "start_seconds": 4188.32, "end_seconds": 4189.32, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honor, I have to admit" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000905", "start_seconds": 4189.32, "end_seconds": 4191.0599999999995, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "that we were really being conservative" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000906", "start_seconds": 4191.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 4193.28, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "in that because considering," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000907", "start_seconds": 4193.9400000000005, "end_seconds": 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happened, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000913", "start_seconds": 4205.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 4205.76, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "if I would," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000914", "start_seconds": 4206.4, "end_seconds": 4208.18, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "with Your Honor's permission," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000915", "start_seconds": 4208.88, "end_seconds": 4211.98, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "for the Cebu construction" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000916", "start_seconds": 4211.98, "end_seconds": 4213.5599999999995, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "of the judiciary complex," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000917", "start_seconds": 4213.98, "end_seconds": 4215.66, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the consulting services" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000918", "start_seconds": 4215.66, "end_seconds": 4217.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "already submitted the required diet" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000919", "start_seconds": 4217.78, "end_seconds": 4220.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "just last August 5, 2026." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000920", "start_seconds": 4220.86, "end_seconds": 4223.62, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "And it made the project now ready" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000921", "start_seconds": 4223.62, "end_seconds": 4227.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "for bidding for the works." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000922", "start_seconds": 4227.42, "end_seconds": 4228.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So when we," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000923", "start_seconds": 4228.86, "end_seconds": 4230.24, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores 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"asr-000934", "start_seconds": 4251.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 4253.2, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "insofar as CDO is concerned, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000935", "start_seconds": 4253.52, "end_seconds": 4255.9400000000005, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "because the diet has not yet been submitted." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000936", "start_seconds": 4255.9400000000005, "end_seconds": 4258.0599999999995, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "And then to continue, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000937", "start_seconds": 4258.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 4260.12, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "with the SPJI innovations," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000938", "start_seconds": 4260.48, "end_seconds": 4264.5599999999995, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "we have a total in the 2026 GA'A for SPJI," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000939", "start_seconds": 4264.88, "end_seconds": 4269.62, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "supposedly 5,159,275,000." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000940", "start_seconds": 4269.7, "end_seconds": 4271.4, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "It was decreased to," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000941", "start_seconds": 4271.96, "end_seconds": 4277.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "it went down because the proposal is just 641,059,000." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000942", "start_seconds": 4277.82, "end_seconds": 4280.04, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The decrease is due to the reclassification" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000943", "start_seconds": 4280.04, "end_seconds": 4282.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "of recurring SPJI-related expenses" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000944", "start_seconds": 4282.78, "end_seconds": 4285.28, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "from 2026 SPJI" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000945", "start_seconds": 4285.28, "end_seconds": 4287.0599999999995, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "because of the intangible," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000946", "start_seconds": 4287.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 4287.84, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the intangible," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000947", "start_seconds": 4288.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 4290.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "assets outlay from CO," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000948", "start_seconds": 4290.98, "end_seconds": 4293.14, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "it now went to MOOE" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000949", "start_seconds": 4293.14, "end_seconds": 4295.4, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "because these are now recurring expenses." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000950", "start_seconds": 4295.88, "end_seconds": 4296.86, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "For instance, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000951", "start_seconds": 4296.9400000000005, "end_seconds": 4297.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "in our subscription," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000952", "start_seconds": 4298.62, "end_seconds": 4299.4, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "so the recurring," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000953", "start_seconds": 4299.62, "end_seconds": 4301.62, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the non-recurring were no longer repeated." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000954", "start_seconds": 4301.96, "end_seconds": 4303.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So it's a matter of recomputation" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000955", "start_seconds": 4303.6, "end_seconds": 4305.0, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "and reprogramming, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000956", "start_seconds": 4305.24, "end_seconds": 4307.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "But it does not mean that we are scaling down" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000957", "start_seconds": 4307.88, "end_seconds": 4309.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "our infrastructure projects." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000958", "start_seconds": 4310.5599999999995, "end_seconds": 4311.22, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000959", "start_seconds": 4311.4, "end_seconds": 4313.48, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "The SPJI," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000960", "start_seconds": 4313.48, "end_seconds": 4315.54, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "if I understand it correctly," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000961", "start_seconds": 4315.68, "end_seconds": 4316.6, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "these are for," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000962", "start_seconds": 4316.64, "end_seconds": 4317.04, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Ah, yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000963", "start_seconds": 4318.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 4320.32, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "For judicial innovation." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000964", "start_seconds": 4320.34, "end_seconds": 4320.86, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000965", "start_seconds": 4321.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 4321.8, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Digitalization." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000966", "start_seconds": 4323.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 4323.74, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Digitalization." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000967", "start_seconds": 4324.22, "end_seconds": 4324.58, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000968", "start_seconds": 4324.76, "end_seconds": 4327.1, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "These are mostly," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000969", "start_seconds": 4328.02, "end_seconds": 4329.32, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "if I'm not mistaken," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000970", "start_seconds": 4330.02, "end_seconds": 4332.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "for efficiency," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000971", "start_seconds": 4332.76, "end_seconds": 4333.28, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "accessibility," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000972", "start_seconds": 4333.76, "end_seconds": 4334.36, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "and accountability." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000973", "start_seconds": 4335.12, "end_seconds": 4336.54, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Efficiency, innovation," }, { "stable_id": "asr-000974", "start_seconds": 4336.82, "end_seconds": 4337.82, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "and access, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000975", "start_seconds": 4337.86, "end_seconds": 4338.18, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Access." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000976", "start_seconds": 4338.4, "end_seconds": 4340.02, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "I have actually 39 projects" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000977", "start_seconds": 4340.02, "end_seconds": 4341.52, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "that I can mention right now" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000978", "start_seconds": 4341.52, "end_seconds": 4342.62, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "just to support them." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000979", "start_seconds": 4342.62, "end_seconds": 4344.76, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "These are basically information technology." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000980", "start_seconds": 4344.8, "end_seconds": 4345.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000981", "start_seconds": 4345.42, "end_seconds": 4347.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The heart of the SPJI." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000982", "start_seconds": 4348.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 4352.4, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So from a locally funded project, naging ano na siya?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000983", "start_seconds": 4352.4400000000005, "end_seconds": 4353.62, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Opo, MOE na po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000984", "start_seconds": 4353.62, "end_seconds": 4354.28, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "MOE na siya?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000985", "start_seconds": 4354.28, "end_seconds": 4354.98, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, for your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000986", "start_seconds": 4355.24, "end_seconds": 4357.52, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Regular project na siya?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000987", "start_seconds": 4357.64, "end_seconds": 4358.2, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000988", "start_seconds": 4358.24, "end_seconds": 4358.9400000000005, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "All right, I understand." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000989", "start_seconds": 4358.9400000000005, "end_seconds": 4374.8, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And the Halls of Justice, the decrease from 2.6 billion to 200 million, I heard you earlier that you would also request for augment." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000990", "start_seconds": 4374.96, "end_seconds": 4375.66, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000991", "start_seconds": 4375.68, "end_seconds": 4377.24, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Bakit siya bumaba? Ang laka ng binaba?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000992", "start_seconds": 4377.24, "end_seconds": 4379.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Almost 92%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000993", "start_seconds": 4379.42, "end_seconds": 4390.82, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Last year po kasi nag-appear po ang tatlong big ticket projects namin, Manila City Hall, the Court of Appeals and the Halls of Justice in Cebu and Cagayan de Oro." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000994", "start_seconds": 4391.26, "end_seconds": 4403.74, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Pero now for this year po, naging conservative, ang sinama lang po namin ay ang Cebu at ang Cagayan de Oro, tapos 200 million pesos lang po ang in-increase po namin." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000995", "start_seconds": 4403.74, "end_seconds": 4406.74, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "When we realized that we actually should have augment." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000996", "start_seconds": 4407.24, "end_seconds": 4407.9400000000005, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Augmented it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000997", "start_seconds": 4408.46, "end_seconds": 4408.5599999999995, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Opo." }, { "stable_id": "asr-000998", "start_seconds": 4409.36, "end_seconds": 4411.54, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "The Manila Hall of Justice?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-000999", "start_seconds": 4411.5599999999995, "end_seconds": 4412.04, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001000", "start_seconds": 4412.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 4413.46, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Tapos na ba yan? Parang matagal na yan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001001", "start_seconds": 4413.46, "end_seconds": 4414.2, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Not yet, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001002", "start_seconds": 4414.4, "end_seconds": 4419.52, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Parang bago pa akong senador, naririnig ko na yan eh." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001003", "start_seconds": 4419.58, "end_seconds": 4421.26, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "There's a lot of story there, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001004", "start_seconds": 4421.26, "end_seconds": 4421.62, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Opo." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001005", "start_seconds": 4427.36, "end_seconds": 4437.22, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "It's more technical, your honor, making it project ready, but there is a lot of technical aspect involved on why there was a delay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001006", "start_seconds": 4437.24, "end_seconds": 4447.24, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "But as of now, we're trying to fast-track it because there's already a committee by members, by the honorable members of the Supreme Court to fast-track it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001007", "start_seconds": 4447.68, "end_seconds": 4448.62, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "And we are making it, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001008", "start_seconds": 4448.96, "end_seconds": 4457.18, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Three years na ginagawa itong, kung first term mo di, matagal na yan eh." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001009", "start_seconds": 4457.22, "end_seconds": 4465.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Hopefully po the DAED will be approved soon because we're really fast-tracking it, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001010", "start_seconds": 4465.8, "end_seconds": 4466.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "I come from RTC." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001011", "start_seconds": 4467.24, "end_seconds": 4468.34, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "RTC Manila, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001012", "start_seconds": 4468.88, "end_seconds": 4474.0599999999995, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "And even Deputy Court Administrator Nelda Montes is an RTC Manila judge." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001013", "start_seconds": 4474.5599999999995, "end_seconds": 4477.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "And during that time, we were looking forward to the construction of the Manila." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001014", "start_seconds": 4477.9, "end_seconds": 4479.08, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Twenty years, ah." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001015", "start_seconds": 4479.98, "end_seconds": 4481.04, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Meron ng 20 years?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001016", "start_seconds": 4481.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 4481.5599999999995, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Meron na po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001017", "start_seconds": 4481.72, "end_seconds": 4487.4400000000005, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Kasi last, your honor, if I may, the last groundbreaking was last 2012 po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001018", "start_seconds": 4488.6, "end_seconds": 4490.38, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Ta'y dad, Judge of the Senate President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001019", "start_seconds": 4491.18, "end_seconds": 4492.74, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Kasi daddy ko dating mayor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001020", "start_seconds": 4493.0, "end_seconds": 4495.2, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Alam ko parang nakailang groundbreaking na yan eh." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001021", "start_seconds": 4495.64, "end_seconds": 4496.4400000000005, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Panay groundbreaking." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001022", "start_seconds": 4496.4400000000005, "end_seconds": 4499.78, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So just with indulgence of our Senate President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001023", "start_seconds": 4500.02, "end_seconds": 4508.92, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, the Cagendi Oro and Cebu, you asked for 100 million each, but the Manila will still be deferred?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001024", "start_seconds": 4509.24, "end_seconds": 4512.64, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, because the DAED is still in the works, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001025", "start_seconds": 4513.16, "end_seconds": 4517.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "You don't think we can start it by next year?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001026", "start_seconds": 4517.7, "end_seconds": 4520.38, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Because it's a long overdue, Mr. President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001027", "start_seconds": 4520.38, "end_seconds": 4533.58, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "That's why, if ever, with all the requirements fulfilled, we would want to support because it can help decongest." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001028", "start_seconds": 4534.68, "end_seconds": 4540.22, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Because Manila and Cebu and Cagendi Oro, these are the main cities." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001029", "start_seconds": 4540.62, "end_seconds": 4547.46, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, that's it. In case, I just saw that it was deferred." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001030", "start_seconds": 4547.58, "end_seconds": 4550.36, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Because, as you said," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001031", "start_seconds": 4550.38, "end_seconds": 4555.54, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "it's been a year since the first year of Senator Kiko." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001032", "start_seconds": 4556.44, "end_seconds": 4558.2, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, that's it. Thank you, Mr. President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001033", "start_seconds": 4558.48, "end_seconds": 4559.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001034", "start_seconds": 4560.02, "end_seconds": 4564.64, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Just for the record, Mr. Chair, there is actually an earmarked budget already for Manila City Hall." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001035", "start_seconds": 4565.82, "end_seconds": 4567.56, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "For the Manila Hall of Justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001036", "start_seconds": 4567.88, "end_seconds": 4570.18, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Sorry, I said Manila City Hall. I heard you or me." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001037", "start_seconds": 4571.46, "end_seconds": 4573.16, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, Your Honors." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001038", "start_seconds": 4573.16, "end_seconds": 4574.82, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "Hi, Senators." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001039", "start_seconds": 4575.8, "end_seconds": 4578.92, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "I was a first-time counselor in 1992." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001040", "start_seconds": 4579.58, "end_seconds": 4580.16, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "And we had our..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001041", "start_seconds": 4580.38, "end_seconds": 4582.14, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "Our first groundbreaking." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001042", "start_seconds": 4582.14, "end_seconds": 4587.0, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "It was during the time of Mayor Lim and I was part of it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001043", "start_seconds": 4587.56, "end_seconds": 4594.62, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "And after almost 25 years, we have yet to see the building being constructed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001044", "start_seconds": 4595.14, "end_seconds": 4598.56, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "Now, but we're pushing with the diet." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001045", "start_seconds": 4598.56, "end_seconds": 4605.9, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "We can be almost finished with it by the end of the year, as promised by the Building Committee." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001046", "start_seconds": 4606.36, "end_seconds": 4609.7, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "So, if we can put it additional..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001047", "start_seconds": 4610.38, "end_seconds": 4612.4, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "Funding for the Manila." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001048", "start_seconds": 4612.94, "end_seconds": 4618.76, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "And as much as the Chair of the Committee, Senator J.V." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001049", "start_seconds": 4619.34, "end_seconds": 4624.92, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "His father is a long two-term, three-term mayor of the city of Manila." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001050", "start_seconds": 4625.04, "end_seconds": 4625.46, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "That's true." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001051", "start_seconds": 4625.46, "end_seconds": 4632.76, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "Although, I haven't met Mayor Erap, but I've always been there during his time." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001052", "start_seconds": 4633.32, "end_seconds": 4635.82, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "So, I hope we can get some funding." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001053", "start_seconds": 4636.54, "end_seconds": 4638.44, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "Because that's the capital city." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001054", "start_seconds": 4638.44, "end_seconds": 4643.28, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "And I show up to the rest of the world." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001055", "start_seconds": 4644.24, "end_seconds": 4645.6, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "And..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001056", "start_seconds": 4645.6, "end_seconds": 4646.08, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001057", "start_seconds": 4646.7, "end_seconds": 4648.42, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Imagine, you're a Supreme Court Justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001058", "start_seconds": 4649.16, "end_seconds": 4649.58, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001059", "start_seconds": 4649.92, "end_seconds": 4650.34, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "You're a counselor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001060", "start_seconds": 4651.12, "end_seconds": 4651.48, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "You're a counselor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001061", "start_seconds": 4652.06, "end_seconds": 4653.76, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "You're an MTC, an RTC." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001062", "start_seconds": 4655.28, "end_seconds": 4655.8, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Groundbreaking." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001063", "start_seconds": 4656.16, "end_seconds": 4657.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "You're 30 years old." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001064", "start_seconds": 4658.76, "end_seconds": 4660.1, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "You're correct, Mr. Chair." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001065", "start_seconds": 4660.6, "end_seconds": 4662.66, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Manila is the capital city." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001066", "start_seconds": 4662.84, "end_seconds": 4665.32, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And it should be the showcase of governance." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001067", "start_seconds": 4665.92, "end_seconds": 4667.04, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "Yes, even for foreigners." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001068", "start_seconds": 4667.04, "end_seconds": 4668.42, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "I'll ask questions later." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001069", "start_seconds": 4668.44, "end_seconds": 4669.62, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Later than my time then." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001070", "start_seconds": 4669.82, "end_seconds": 4671.58, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "What caused the delay and all." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001071", "start_seconds": 4671.7, "end_seconds": 4672.36, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001072", "start_seconds": 4672.82, "end_seconds": 4673.38, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001073", "start_seconds": 4673.56, "end_seconds": 4678.94, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And to inform Justice Lopez, I was also a city councilor of Quezon City in 1992." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001074", "start_seconds": 4680.18, "end_seconds": 4680.58, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001075", "start_seconds": 4680.72, "end_seconds": 4681.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "We're together." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001076", "start_seconds": 4681.4, "end_seconds": 4684.28, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So, until now, I'm a senator." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001077", "start_seconds": 4685.54, "end_seconds": 4686.06, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "You're a justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001078", "start_seconds": 4687.72, "end_seconds": 4692.0, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Maybe by the end of the year, it will be groundbreaking and it will continue." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001079", "start_seconds": 4693.66, "end_seconds": 4695.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Go ahead, Senate President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001080", "start_seconds": 4695.46, "end_seconds": 4697.56, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Mr. Chairman, I'll avail of the second round." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001081", "start_seconds": 4697.78, "end_seconds": 4698.4, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So that we..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001082", "start_seconds": 4698.44, "end_seconds": 4701.52, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So that the chairman can pursue his questions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001083", "start_seconds": 4703.44, "end_seconds": 4704.44, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you, Mr. President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001084", "start_seconds": 4705.62, "end_seconds": 4707.14, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Anyway, good morning." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001085", "start_seconds": 4707.14, "end_seconds": 4708.32, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Good morning to all of you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001086", "start_seconds": 4709.82, "end_seconds": 4716.1, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Just like what I have, I received a letter from the DBM." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001087", "start_seconds": 4718.26, "end_seconds": 4724.78, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "The first copy of the comment on your proposed 2037 budget, section 3 of RA 12233." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001088", "start_seconds": 4725.52, "end_seconds": 4725.94, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Here it is." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001089", "start_seconds": 4725.94, "end_seconds": 4727.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "They're recommending a budget ceiling of 77." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001090", "start_seconds": 4727.82, "end_seconds": 4734.2, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "77 billion, which leaves 9 billion, 9.17 billion gap from the judiciaries." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001091", "start_seconds": 4734.58, "end_seconds": 4739.2, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Your proposal is 86 billion, 86.37 billion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001092", "start_seconds": 4739.2, "end_seconds": 4744.7, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, of course, the basic questions I would like to ask, which specific program or projects" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001093", "start_seconds": 4744.7, "end_seconds": 4750.26, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "will strongly be affected of this 9.17 billion difference?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001094", "start_seconds": 4750.5, "end_seconds": 4756.2, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Maybe the DBM, because of the judicial..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001095", "start_seconds": 4756.2, "end_seconds": 4757.2, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Autonomy." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001096", "start_seconds": 4757.82, "end_seconds": 4762.24, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Maybe this is the last chance for them to comment or to intervene." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001097", "start_seconds": 4763.08, "end_seconds": 4765.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "You know, the DBM, if they can reduce it, they will reduce it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001098", "start_seconds": 4766.26, "end_seconds": 4769.64, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "But because of the low fiscal ceiling also this year." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001099", "start_seconds": 4770.22, "end_seconds": 4777.4, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, specifically, what are the major programs and projects that will be affected by the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001100", "start_seconds": 4777.4, "end_seconds": 4779.52, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "9.17 billion difference?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001101", "start_seconds": 4780.74, "end_seconds": 4784.7, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honor, because we're really banking on three factors, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001102", "start_seconds": 4784.7, "end_seconds": 4786.7, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Our people, system, and infrastructure." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001103", "start_seconds": 4787.82, "end_seconds": 4795.46, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So, if we decrease it by 9 billion, definitely in our people, our plans to upgrade, reclassify" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001104", "start_seconds": 4795.46, "end_seconds": 4800.38, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the salaries of our people will be affected." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001105", "start_seconds": 4800.98, "end_seconds": 4804.46, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "And most of our personnel, Your Honor, have not had the salary increase." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001106", "start_seconds": 4805.02, "end_seconds": 4809.94, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "And because there's no really point of them being promoted, because there's no such thing" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001107", "start_seconds": 4809.94, "end_seconds": 4810.94, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "in the courts, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001108", "start_seconds": 4810.94, "end_seconds": 4816.44, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "If you come in as a utility, the only chance that you can become as that salary grade one," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001109", "start_seconds": 4816.86, "end_seconds": 4817.46, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "that the only chance..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001110", "start_seconds": 4817.82, "end_seconds": 4821.52, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The only chance that you can be promoted as a process server, considering the qualification" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001111", "start_seconds": 4821.52, "end_seconds": 4825.64, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "standards that you can, which is SG2, will be second to none." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001112", "start_seconds": 4825.78, "end_seconds": 4830.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Because most of the time, we are really awaiting for the retirement of most members of our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001113", "start_seconds": 4830.9, "end_seconds": 4831.3, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "people." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001114", "start_seconds": 4831.76, "end_seconds": 4836.1, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So, if we decrease the infrastructure, can you imagine, Your Honor?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001115", "start_seconds": 4836.1, "end_seconds": 4841.56, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "I mean, I cannot even say that our courts are beyond dignified in the image." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001116", "start_seconds": 4841.92, "end_seconds": 4843.68, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We really have to do a lot of..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001117", "start_seconds": 4843.68, "end_seconds": 4847.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Especially, Your Honors, the fact that most of our buildings are 20 years and older." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001118", "start_seconds": 4847.82, "end_seconds": 4852.52, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "With the calamities that have been happening, we've been going around, our buildings are" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001119", "start_seconds": 4852.52, "end_seconds": 4853.82, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "old and do need..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001120", "start_seconds": 4854.44, "end_seconds": 4860.14, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "They need rehabilitation, repairs, and a lot of, if not, demolition, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001121", "start_seconds": 4860.68, "end_seconds": 4864.82, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "HOJ in Iloilo, Your Honor, I'm not even sure, but it has been vacated." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001122", "start_seconds": 4865.88, "end_seconds": 4866.76, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "It has been condemned." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001123", "start_seconds": 4867.02, "end_seconds": 4868.7, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "It was retrofitted." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001124", "start_seconds": 4869.82, "end_seconds": 4875.02, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, but most of our judges do not feel safe anymore to go back, which is why we had to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001125", "start_seconds": 4875.02, "end_seconds": 4877.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "relocate them to another one, to another building." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001126", "start_seconds": 4877.82, "end_seconds": 4883.54, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "I don't know if it's coincidence, but in Iloilo, when there's a flyover, there's a lot of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001127", "start_seconds": 4883.54, "end_seconds": 4883.76, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "people." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001128", "start_seconds": 4884.98, "end_seconds": 4886.86, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Then, the Hall of Justice, that's new." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001129", "start_seconds": 4887.4, "end_seconds": 4892.7, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Then, it's already unfit for occupancy." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001130", "start_seconds": 4893.2, "end_seconds": 4895.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "There's a need to retrofit again." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001131", "start_seconds": 4895.28, "end_seconds": 4898.56, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "The flyover that was like a rollercoaster, it was retrofitted." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001132", "start_seconds": 4899.02, "end_seconds": 4899.52, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "It's new." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001133", "start_seconds": 4899.84, "end_seconds": 4901.06, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Now, it's being retrofitted again." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001134", "start_seconds": 4901.84, "end_seconds": 4903.06, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Mr. Chair, I would like to..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001135", "start_seconds": 4903.06, "end_seconds": 4905.12, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "What's the name of the DBM?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001136", "start_seconds": 4905.28, "end_seconds": 4906.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Oh, yeah, please." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001137", "start_seconds": 4906.3, "end_seconds": 4906.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "With your indulgence." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001138", "start_seconds": 4906.82, "end_seconds": 4907.44, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "With your indulgence." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001139", "start_seconds": 4907.82, "end_seconds": 4917.32, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, some things, the Manila Hall of Justice proposal, what are the causes of delays?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001140", "start_seconds": 4917.54, "end_seconds": 4927.04, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "I'd just like to ask that the Hall of Justice in Manila is again delayed because the 1.918" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001141", "start_seconds": 4927.04, "end_seconds": 4932.48, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "billion second year funding, supposedly, for the Manila Hall of Justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001142", "start_seconds": 4932.48, "end_seconds": 4935.28, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, what are the causes of delays?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001143", "start_seconds": 4935.28, "end_seconds": 4938.32, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "When do you expect the construction to resume?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001144", "start_seconds": 4938.86, "end_seconds": 4939.72, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "That's what I mentioned earlier." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001145", "start_seconds": 4940.1, "end_seconds": 4943.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, what are the bottlenecks?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001146", "start_seconds": 4943.5, "end_seconds": 4948.66, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And I think this is more than 26 years overdue now, or 20..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001147", "start_seconds": 4948.66, "end_seconds": 4951.36, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "That's right, 30 years already." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001148", "start_seconds": 4952.14, "end_seconds": 4957.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Justice Lopez said, 1992, when the first groundbreaking took place." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001149", "start_seconds": 4958.16, "end_seconds": 4958.78, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, go ahead, ma'am." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001150", "start_seconds": 4959.86, "end_seconds": 4961.28, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001151", "start_seconds": 4961.28, "end_seconds": 4963.28, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Mr. Chair, the Department of Budget and Management has already..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001152", "start_seconds": 4963.28, "end_seconds": 4964.16, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The Department of Budget and Management has already..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001153", "start_seconds": 4964.16, "end_seconds": 4965.16, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The Department of Budget and Management has already..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001154", "start_seconds": 4965.16, "end_seconds": 4970.0, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Submitted its comment, but for the record, we have not yet received, formally received" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001155", "start_seconds": 4970.0, "end_seconds": 4970.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "a copy of the same." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001156", "start_seconds": 4970.86, "end_seconds": 4972.18, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So, we have not even read it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001157", "start_seconds": 4972.46, "end_seconds": 4977.4, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "But to answer your honor's question, your honor, on what caused the delay in the Manila" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001158", "start_seconds": 4977.4, "end_seconds": 4984.12, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Hall of Justice project, your honor, I do know that there was already an awarded contractor" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001159", "start_seconds": 4984.12, "end_seconds": 4987.34, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "way back in, before I..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001160", "start_seconds": 4987.34, "end_seconds": 4992.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "I was still an art regional trial court judge, your honor, but it was complicated by a technical" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001161", "start_seconds": 4992.9, "end_seconds": 4995.14, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "mathematical computation, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001162", "start_seconds": 4995.14, "end_seconds": 5004.86, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Which way, the honorable Supreme Court had to terminate the contractor, the works that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001163", "start_seconds": 5004.86, "end_seconds": 5011.36, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "was already procured because of that error." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001164", "start_seconds": 5012.48, "end_seconds": 5016.98, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So, the diet consultant was terminated, and then we had to repost it again." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001165", "start_seconds": 5017.08, "end_seconds": 5018.5, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We had two failed biddings." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001166", "start_seconds": 5018.5, "end_seconds": 5024.5, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "And then now, it was only the second semester of 2024 that a consulting certifying..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001167", "start_seconds": 5025.14, "end_seconds": 5029.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "was engaged and is about to submit the DAED, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001168", "start_seconds": 5030.26, "end_seconds": 5034.5599999999995, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So it is not an ordinary construction project, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001169", "start_seconds": 5034.68, "end_seconds": 5039.0599999999995, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So we really have to make it ready, especially make it disaster resilient" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001170", "start_seconds": 5039.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 5042.24, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "with all the natural calamities that we are experiencing." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001171", "start_seconds": 5042.6, "end_seconds": 5045.9400000000005, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So may pag-asa pa naman na before matapos ang term is NKCO ulit." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001172", "start_seconds": 5045.98, "end_seconds": 5046.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes po, sana po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001173", "start_seconds": 5046.88, "end_seconds": 5051.96, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "At yung bago mag-retirement na si Associate Justice Joseph Lopez," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001174", "start_seconds": 5051.96, "end_seconds": 5055.38, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "may tayo na itong Manila Hall of Justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001175", "start_seconds": 5055.8, "end_seconds": 5056.48, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001176", "start_seconds": 5056.88, "end_seconds": 5057.62, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Sana naman, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001177", "start_seconds": 5057.72, "end_seconds": 5066.16, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "We know we have a very limited fiscal space, but I think Manila is our capital." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001178", "start_seconds": 5066.62, "end_seconds": 5068.24, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Hindi naman natin pwede pabayaan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001179", "start_seconds": 5068.36, "end_seconds": 5069.88, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Tama kayo kanina sa Mr. Chair." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001180", "start_seconds": 5069.96, "end_seconds": 5072.64, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "May Manila and then Cebu and then Cagandioro, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001181", "start_seconds": 5072.82, "end_seconds": 5073.1, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Opo." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001182", "start_seconds": 5073.1, "end_seconds": 5078.36, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, and then also, next is yung pong acquisition." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001183", "start_seconds": 5078.5599999999995, "end_seconds": 5081.7, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Meron pa silang ano na, para lang alam nyo po yung selector," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001184", "start_seconds": 5081.76, "end_seconds": 5081.9400000000005, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "nandito." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001185", "start_seconds": 5081.96, "end_seconds": 5089.12, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Noted that the court is asking for a 314 million for the acquisition of 100 units of motor vehicles." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001186", "start_seconds": 5090.32, "end_seconds": 5096.0, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, may we know how many of the 100 units will be allotted to the courts?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001187", "start_seconds": 5096.42, "end_seconds": 5097.88, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Or paano pong paggagamit nito?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001188", "start_seconds": 5098.4400000000005, "end_seconds": 5106.38, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "For what I know kasi, swerte na Mr. Chair kasi yung yung mga more affluent LGUs, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001189", "start_seconds": 5106.4400000000005, "end_seconds": 5108.1, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "They support the improvement of the courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001190", "start_seconds": 5108.1, "end_seconds": 5111.78, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "They provide the vehicles to the judges." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001191", "start_seconds": 5111.96, "end_seconds": 5115.92, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And the other needs of the courts and some personnel." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001192", "start_seconds": 5116.98, "end_seconds": 5124.32, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, ito po ang, ito po ang, so what is the distribution of the 100 units?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001193", "start_seconds": 5125.62, "end_seconds": 5133.58, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Kasi pinapanon na, they also note, they also mentioned ito pong request the 300 million for vehicles." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001194", "start_seconds": 5137.02, "end_seconds": 5138.84, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001195", "start_seconds": 5138.84, "end_seconds": 5140.84, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honor, specifically." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001196", "start_seconds": 5140.84, "end_seconds": 5145.3, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Specifically, for Supreme Court lang ito." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001197", "start_seconds": 5145.92, "end_seconds": 5149.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We can, Your Honor, I do not have the data for all courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001198", "start_seconds": 5149.9, "end_seconds": 5151.38, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Can we just submit the same, Your Honor?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001199", "start_seconds": 5151.9, "end_seconds": 5152.24, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, please." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001200", "start_seconds": 5152.5, "end_seconds": 5160.64, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "But basically, the 340 vehicle acquisition will be part of the reflating program of the Supreme Court, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001201", "start_seconds": 5160.88, "end_seconds": 5161.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Ah, it's for the Supreme Court." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001202", "start_seconds": 5162.04, "end_seconds": 5162.52, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001203", "start_seconds": 5162.52, "end_seconds": 5166.86, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Supreme Court and also the appellate courts, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001204", "start_seconds": 5167.0, "end_seconds": 5167.84, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Appellate courts, okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001205", "start_seconds": 5168.96, "end_seconds": 5170.72, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Because, I know for a fact like," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001206", "start_seconds": 5170.84, "end_seconds": 5176.28, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "the Makati, the Reacher, they provide vehicles for the judges, diba?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001207", "start_seconds": 5176.7, "end_seconds": 5181.24, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Pero although hindi lahat, minsan kalahati lang, suerte-suerte yan din sa Manila." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001208", "start_seconds": 5181.62, "end_seconds": 5184.32, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, this one is for the Supreme Court and the appellate courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001209", "start_seconds": 5185.0, "end_seconds": 5191.5599999999995, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Sa lower courts po kasi, Your Honor, basically, it's through the generosity of the local government units" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001210", "start_seconds": 5191.5599999999995, "end_seconds": 5194.5, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "who would provide for the service vehicles." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001211", "start_seconds": 5194.5, "end_seconds": 5199.76, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yes, I think for the cities, yung may first class municipalities, no problem." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001212", "start_seconds": 5199.9, "end_seconds": 5200.74, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "They can support." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001213", "start_seconds": 5200.84, "end_seconds": 5201.66, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "The courts, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001214", "start_seconds": 5202.14, "end_seconds": 5208.34, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "We know for a fact kasi, our Senate President, I myself, for mayors, and we were able to establish, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001215", "start_seconds": 5208.46, "end_seconds": 5210.58, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "With the, yung RTCs already." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001216", "start_seconds": 5210.84, "end_seconds": 5213.18, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Like, in San Juan, meron kami sarili and we support, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001217", "start_seconds": 5213.24, "end_seconds": 5221.08, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "The LGU supports and I think Valenzuela and the bigger cities, especially Makati and Manila, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001218", "start_seconds": 5221.68, "end_seconds": 5230.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Although, yung iba kalahati-kalahati lang na po-provide nila because ang dami rin RTCs in the big major cities." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001219", "start_seconds": 5230.84, "end_seconds": 5241.84, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yung pong programs, no, that was mentioned by our chair and our Senate President, yung tumpo to sa cold congestion at lahat" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001220", "start_seconds": 5241.84, "end_seconds": 5247.34, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and the need for us to have a catch-up plan, so to speak, for the infrastructure." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001221", "start_seconds": 5247.52, "end_seconds": 5249.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "I'm very much particular with that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001222", "start_seconds": 5250.38, "end_seconds": 5256.12, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "We're hoping that if you can provide us, sana masimula na po natin in 2027, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001223", "start_seconds": 5256.16, "end_seconds": 5259.68, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So that we can already address the problem of the backlogs, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001224", "start_seconds": 5259.68, "end_seconds": 5260.12, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Kaya nga." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001225", "start_seconds": 5260.84, "end_seconds": 5270.14, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "If it's digitalization, if it's computerization, and if it's a combination of both infrastructure," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001226", "start_seconds": 5270.32, "end_seconds": 5277.68, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "kasi binabanggit niyo po yung kaninang hawak ng mga cases, of course, 5,000, 6,000, that's quite a lot, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001227", "start_seconds": 5278.58, "end_seconds": 5283.64, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, if you please let us know so that we can already start with the catch-up plan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001228", "start_seconds": 5284.3, "end_seconds": 5287.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And we cannot, ano, it was noted by our chair also." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001229", "start_seconds": 5288.08, "end_seconds": 5290.08, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Nakung tutuusin yung 7 billion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001230", "start_seconds": 5290.84, "end_seconds": 5295.64, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "7, 70 billion budget is just a drop, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001231", "start_seconds": 5295.72, "end_seconds": 5298.16, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Kung pag-asa 7 trillion, 1%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001232", "start_seconds": 5298.16, "end_seconds": 5298.9400000000005, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Diba?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001233", "start_seconds": 5299.22, "end_seconds": 5305.34, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And this is already a co-equal branch in charge of administering justice, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001234", "start_seconds": 5306.1, "end_seconds": 5311.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, yun po, can you provide us in case yung pong catch-up plan nyo, if ever," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001235", "start_seconds": 5311.64, "end_seconds": 5314.7, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "so that we can address these problems of the backlogs already?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001236", "start_seconds": 5314.7, "end_seconds": 5320.5, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We will work on it, Your Honor, because we have our own Statistics Records Division in the Supreme Court," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001237", "start_seconds": 5320.5, "end_seconds": 5321.54, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "who can do that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001238", "start_seconds": 5321.6, "end_seconds": 5322.52, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you very much, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001239", "start_seconds": 5322.92, "end_seconds": 5328.0, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And likewise, yun sa ano na lang, nabanggit ko na rin po yung case backlogs and long-pending cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001240", "start_seconds": 5328.26, "end_seconds": 5332.78, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "First of all, I'd like to congratulate the Judiciary for the improved disposition of cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001241", "start_seconds": 5332.78, "end_seconds": 5339.68, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "We took note that the Regional Trial Court recorded the highest number of resolutions decisions in 2025," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001242", "start_seconds": 5340.08, "end_seconds": 5346.78, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "while the Judiciary generally exceeded its 2025 targets for resolutions and case dispositions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001243", "start_seconds": 5346.92, "end_seconds": 5349.04, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Performance remains uneven across courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001244", "start_seconds": 5349.18, "end_seconds": 5349.78, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "The Supreme Court..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001245", "start_seconds": 5350.5, "end_seconds": 5355.42, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "...posted a disposition rate of only 23% against its target of 38%," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001246", "start_seconds": 5355.42, "end_seconds": 5362.24, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "while the CTA achieved 56% against its 79.8%," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001247", "start_seconds": 5362.24, "end_seconds": 5370.96, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and the Sardigan Bayan also processed only 1,587 cases against a target of 5,640." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001248", "start_seconds": 5371.4400000000005, "end_seconds": 5377.96, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, just the basic questions, what are the main factors behind the performance gaps and continuing case backlogs?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001249", "start_seconds": 5378.6, "end_seconds": 5379.96, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "More importantly, how will we..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001250", "start_seconds": 5379.96, "end_seconds": 5387.66, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "How will the proposed 2027 budget specifically address these bottlenecks and translate into faster disposition of cases?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001251", "start_seconds": 5387.66, "end_seconds": 5392.68, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "That's why I asked, as Chairman of the Committee on Finance, of course, I would like to augment," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001252", "start_seconds": 5392.78, "end_seconds": 5398.66, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "kasi pinapabawas akin ng DBM, but if we will be able to improve..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001253", "start_seconds": 5400.0, "end_seconds": 5402.14, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "address ito po mga backlogs nyo" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001254", "start_seconds": 5402.14, "end_seconds": 5403.54, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and catch up," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001255", "start_seconds": 5404.12, "end_seconds": 5405.24, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "then we would gladly" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001256", "start_seconds": 5405.24, "end_seconds": 5407.58, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "look for, masigit ma'am," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001257", "start_seconds": 5407.66, "end_seconds": 5409.94, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "fiscal space natin, we'll gladly look for other" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001258", "start_seconds": 5409.94, "end_seconds": 5412.0, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "sources so that we can" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001259", "start_seconds": 5412.0, "end_seconds": 5412.86, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "even augment." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001260", "start_seconds": 5413.64, "end_seconds": 5415.56, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Of course, this is administration of justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001261", "start_seconds": 5415.68, "end_seconds": 5417.04, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yun na po. Siguro po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001262", "start_seconds": 5417.54, "end_seconds": 5418.3, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Please ma'am." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001263", "start_seconds": 5418.74, "end_seconds": 5420.32, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you po, Mr. Chair, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001264", "start_seconds": 5421.32, "end_seconds": 5423.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Unang-una po, napakalaking" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001265", "start_seconds": 5423.9, "end_seconds": 5426.32, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "effect po" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001266", "start_seconds": 5426.32, "end_seconds": 5428.44, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "kung ang policy po" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001267", "start_seconds": 5428.44, "end_seconds": 5430.0, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "ng ating ICT," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001268", "start_seconds": 5430.32, "end_seconds": 5432.06, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "yung governance framework po natin" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001269", "start_seconds": 5432.06, "end_seconds": 5432.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "at ng" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001270", "start_seconds": 5432.9, "end_seconds": 5435.94, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "plano po na magtayo po ng" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001271", "start_seconds": 5435.94, "end_seconds": 5438.16, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "electronic courts or what we call" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001272", "start_seconds": 5438.16, "end_seconds": 5440.22, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the e-courts. Ang e-courts po kasi" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001273", "start_seconds": 5440.22, "end_seconds": 5441.94, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "mag-establish po ng infrastructure." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001274", "start_seconds": 5442.2, "end_seconds": 5444.32, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "How an ideal court will look like." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001275", "start_seconds": 5444.4, "end_seconds": 5446.2, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So lahat na po yan, digitalized." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001276", "start_seconds": 5446.66, "end_seconds": 5448.1, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "But we cannot say that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001277", "start_seconds": 5448.1, "end_seconds": 5450.14, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "nag-cascade na po yan sa lahat" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001278", "start_seconds": 5450.14, "end_seconds": 5452.16, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "kasi pinapilot po. But that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001279", "start_seconds": 5452.16, "end_seconds": 5454.26, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "is where the budget will really come in." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001280", "start_seconds": 5455.48, "end_seconds": 5456.44, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We need" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001281", "start_seconds": 5456.44, "end_seconds": 5458.18, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "to procure not just" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001282", "start_seconds": 5458.18, "end_seconds": 5460.0, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "ICT or laptops" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001283", "start_seconds": 5460.0, "end_seconds": 5461.76, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "or ICT equipment. It's the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001284", "start_seconds": 5461.76, "end_seconds": 5464.0, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "program and the software itself," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001285", "start_seconds": 5464.12, "end_seconds": 5466.22, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "your honor. And other than that," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001286", "start_seconds": 5466.72, "end_seconds": 5467.82, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "it is into" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001287", "start_seconds": 5467.82, "end_seconds": 5469.98, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "developing a system on how to make" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001288", "start_seconds": 5469.98, "end_seconds": 5471.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "our courts highly" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001289", "start_seconds": 5471.6, "end_seconds": 5473.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "performing. So nasa pag-develop" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001290", "start_seconds": 5473.88, "end_seconds": 5474.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "din po ng system." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001291", "start_seconds": 5475.38, "end_seconds": 5477.66, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So we're in the digitalization." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001292", "start_seconds": 5478.44, "end_seconds": 5480.1, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Midway, your honor. We're hoping." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001293", "start_seconds": 5480.4, "end_seconds": 5482.18, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Because some other courts, sad to say," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001294", "start_seconds": 5482.28, "end_seconds": 5483.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "talagang records" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001295", "start_seconds": 5483.82, "end_seconds": 5485.72, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "with all of those. Talagang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001296", "start_seconds": 5485.72, "end_seconds": 5487.42, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "fire hazard na eh." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001297", "start_seconds": 5487.42, "end_seconds": 5487.78, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001298", "start_seconds": 5488.18, "end_seconds": 5489.76, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So that's good. We will" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001299", "start_seconds": 5489.76, "end_seconds": 5492.1, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "gladly help and support." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001300", "start_seconds": 5492.22, "end_seconds": 5493.72, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "At least we can improve a better" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001301", "start_seconds": 5493.72, "end_seconds": 5496.16, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "environment for the disposition" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001302", "start_seconds": 5496.16, "end_seconds": 5498.0, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "of justice. Thank you so much," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001303", "start_seconds": 5498.08, "end_seconds": 5500.16, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "your honor. So what measurable" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001304", "start_seconds": 5500.16, "end_seconds": 5502.28, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "improvements in disposition rates" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001305", "start_seconds": 5502.28, "end_seconds": 5504.08, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and case processing can Congress expect" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001306", "start_seconds": 5504.08, "end_seconds": 5505.86, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "from the additional resources" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001307", "start_seconds": 5505.86, "end_seconds": 5508.04, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "with the digitalization? Ma'am, can you" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001308", "start_seconds": 5508.04, "end_seconds": 5510.26, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "expect that? Can we expect that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001309", "start_seconds": 5510.26, "end_seconds": 5511.18, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "it will" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001310", "start_seconds": 5511.18, "end_seconds": 5514.04, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "case in? Your honor, if" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001311", "start_seconds": 5514.04, "end_seconds": 5516.1, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "we follow the parameters followed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001312", "start_seconds": 5516.1, "end_seconds": 5517.72, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "by our high performance courts," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001313", "start_seconds": 5518.18, "end_seconds": 5520.54, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "that we have developed our internal" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001314", "start_seconds": 5520.54, "end_seconds": 5523.0, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "processes by digitalization and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001315", "start_seconds": 5523.0, "end_seconds": 5525.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "our external stakeholders are happier" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001316", "start_seconds": 5525.6, "end_seconds": 5527.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "and our people are happy and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001317", "start_seconds": 5527.6, "end_seconds": 5529.48, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "then there are electronic" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001318", "start_seconds": 5529.48, "end_seconds": 5531.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "courts, then, your honor, we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001319", "start_seconds": 5531.6, "end_seconds": 5533.48, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "can meet even if we if let's" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001320", "start_seconds": 5533.48, "end_seconds": 5535.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "say a Dasmariñas court will be handing" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001321", "start_seconds": 5535.6, "end_seconds": 5537.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "5,000 case records." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001322", "start_seconds": 5537.6, "end_seconds": 5539.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "If we follow all those parameters," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001323", "start_seconds": 5539.6, "end_seconds": 5541.52, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "I think we can meet the disposal" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001324", "start_seconds": 5541.52, "end_seconds": 5543.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "target of by" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001325", "start_seconds": 5543.9, "end_seconds": 5546.68, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "by 80% or even 90%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001326", "start_seconds": 5548.18, "end_seconds": 5551.32, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Probably, ma'am," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001327", "start_seconds": 5551.4, "end_seconds": 5551.86, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "justice," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001328", "start_seconds": 5553.22, "end_seconds": 5553.98, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "ito pong" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001329", "start_seconds": 5553.98, "end_seconds": 5556.3, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "DBM probably" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001330", "start_seconds": 5556.3, "end_seconds": 5558.36, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "looked, noticed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001331", "start_seconds": 5558.36, "end_seconds": 5560.46, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "that yung kasi may 22%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001332", "start_seconds": 5560.46, "end_seconds": 5562.44, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "increase in" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001333", "start_seconds": 5562.44, "end_seconds": 5564.08, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "the judiciary budget from" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001334", "start_seconds": 5564.08, "end_seconds": 5566.12, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "for 2027 compared to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001335", "start_seconds": 5566.12, "end_seconds": 5568.44, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "2026. So siguro" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001336", "start_seconds": 5568.44, "end_seconds": 5569.78, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "ito yung reason why" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001337", "start_seconds": 5569.78, "end_seconds": 5572.32, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "they are, ito yung" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001338", "start_seconds": 5572.32, "end_seconds": 5574.3, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "last chance to intervene" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001339", "start_seconds": 5574.3, "end_seconds": 5575.88, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "yung pong kanilang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001340", "start_seconds": 5575.88, "end_seconds": 5577.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "9 billion na," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001341", "start_seconds": 5578.18, "end_seconds": 5580.68, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "but I think if it will be" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001342", "start_seconds": 5580.68, "end_seconds": 5582.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "siguro, just" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001343", "start_seconds": 5582.5, "end_seconds": 5584.68, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "anyway, if can be" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001344", "start_seconds": 5584.68, "end_seconds": 5586.86, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "justified naman yung 22%," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001345", "start_seconds": 5586.86, "end_seconds": 5587.8, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "of course, yung pong" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001346", "start_seconds": 5587.8, "end_seconds": 5590.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "by giving us that picture" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001347", "start_seconds": 5590.9, "end_seconds": 5592.94, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "yung the backlogs and all," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001348", "start_seconds": 5593.12, "end_seconds": 5594.28, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "we really have to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001349", "start_seconds": 5594.28, "end_seconds": 5596.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "do something about" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001350", "start_seconds": 5596.82, "end_seconds": 5598.76, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "this. Last point, Mr. Chair," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001351", "start_seconds": 5599.04, "end_seconds": 5600.68, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "before I, siguro, just" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001352", "start_seconds": 5600.68, "end_seconds": 5602.52, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "avail of the second round as well so that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001353", "start_seconds": 5602.52, "end_seconds": 5604.3, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "our Senate President can" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001354", "start_seconds": 5604.3, "end_seconds": 5606.4, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "continue with this questioning also." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001355", "start_seconds": 5606.98, "end_seconds": 5607.86, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Your personnel, sir," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001356", "start_seconds": 5608.18, "end_seconds": 5609.44, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "personal services and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001357", "start_seconds": 5609.44, "end_seconds": 5610.6, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "unfulfilled positions," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001358", "start_seconds": 5611.38, "end_seconds": 5612.62, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "how will the Supreme Court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001359", "start_seconds": 5612.62, "end_seconds": 5615.6, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "accelerate recruitment and appointment to fill" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001360", "start_seconds": 5615.6, "end_seconds": 5617.66, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "12,827" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001361", "start_seconds": 5617.66, "end_seconds": 5619.78, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "vacancies given that manpower shortages?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001362", "start_seconds": 5620.58, "end_seconds": 5621.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Directly, probably," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001363", "start_seconds": 5621.72, "end_seconds": 5623.28, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "it may have affect our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001364", "start_seconds": 5623.28, "end_seconds": 5625.48, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "directly affect our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001365", "start_seconds": 5625.48, "end_seconds": 5627.68, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "poor congestion and trial" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001366", "start_seconds": 5627.68, "end_seconds": 5628.74, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "delays. So" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001367", "start_seconds": 5628.74, "end_seconds": 5630.96, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "can we, ano, can we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001368", "start_seconds": 5630.96, "end_seconds": 5633.46, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "ito pong ating pong, ano, can we address" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001369", "start_seconds": 5633.46, "end_seconds": 5635.28, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "yung ating pong 12,800" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001370", "start_seconds": 5635.28, "end_seconds": 5636.42, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "vacancies?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001371", "start_seconds": 5637.22, "end_seconds": 5638.02, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, sir." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001372", "start_seconds": 5638.18, "end_seconds": 5640.02, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Since with the number of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001373", "start_seconds": 5640.02, "end_seconds": 5642.18, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "vacancies and the filling in of positions," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001374", "start_seconds": 5642.38, "end_seconds": 5644.26, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "your honor, which is why it is" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001375", "start_seconds": 5644.26, "end_seconds": 5646.44, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "part of our SPJI initiative" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001376", "start_seconds": 5646.44, "end_seconds": 5648.34, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "to create the regional" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001377", "start_seconds": 5648.34, "end_seconds": 5650.2, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "court managers so that eventually," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001378", "start_seconds": 5650.44, "end_seconds": 5652.3, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "your honor, when our records and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001379", "start_seconds": 5652.3, "end_seconds": 5653.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "our 201 files can now" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001380", "start_seconds": 5653.8, "end_seconds": 5656.3, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "be shared with" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001381", "start_seconds": 5656.3, "end_seconds": 5658.3, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "our regional court managers, we can make our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001382", "start_seconds": 5658.3, "end_seconds": 5660.32, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "selection processes in the regional" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001383", "start_seconds": 5660.32, "end_seconds": 5662.26, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "level and that will accelerate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001384", "start_seconds": 5662.26, "end_seconds": 5664.44, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "and facilitate the appointment processes," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001385", "start_seconds": 5664.44, "end_seconds": 5666.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "your honor. And if" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001386", "start_seconds": 5666.42, "end_seconds": 5668.14, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "that happens, your honor, madali na pong ma-" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001387", "start_seconds": 5668.18, "end_seconds": 5669.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "punan lahat po ng bakante" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001388", "start_seconds": 5669.9, "end_seconds": 5672.3, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "sa korte. And of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001389", "start_seconds": 5672.3, "end_seconds": 5673.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "course, we're only talking about the court personnel" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001390", "start_seconds": 5673.9, "end_seconds": 5676.1, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "because the judges will have to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001391", "start_seconds": 5676.1, "end_seconds": 5677.98, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "undergo the JBC screening" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001392", "start_seconds": 5677.98, "end_seconds": 5680.32, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "process and the appointment is by the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001393", "start_seconds": 5680.32, "end_seconds": 5682.36, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "president of the Philippines," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001394", "start_seconds": 5682.52, "end_seconds": 5683.82, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "your honor. Again, ma'am," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001395", "start_seconds": 5683.92, "end_seconds": 5685.88, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "talayin ko na rin po as the court administrator," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001396", "start_seconds": 5686.04, "end_seconds": 5688.06, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "the event flag for her 4.47" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001397", "start_seconds": 5688.06, "end_seconds": 5690.12, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "4.47 billion" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001398", "start_seconds": 5690.12, "end_seconds": 5691.94, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "requests for reclassification" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001399", "start_seconds": 5691.94, "end_seconds": 5694.2, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "of positions and 608" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001400", "start_seconds": 5694.2, "end_seconds": 5696.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "million for the creation" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001401", "start_seconds": 5696.02, "end_seconds": 5698.14, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "of new positions. So were you able to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001402", "start_seconds": 5698.18, "end_seconds": 5700.04, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "submit the formal resolutions" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001403", "start_seconds": 5700.04, "end_seconds": 5702.08, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "to DBA before adding the funding for" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001404", "start_seconds": 5702.08, "end_seconds": 5703.44, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "these compensation adjustments" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001405", "start_seconds": 5703.44, "end_seconds": 5705.44, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "in your budget?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001405-split-2", "start_seconds": 5705.44, "end_seconds": 5706.12, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001406", "start_seconds": 5706.32, "end_seconds": 5707.64, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Actually, your honor, we have" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001407", "start_seconds": 5707.64, "end_seconds": 5709.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "projected the cost, but" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001408", "start_seconds": 5709.78, "end_seconds": 5711.74, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the process mapping and the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001409", "start_seconds": 5711.74, "end_seconds": 5713.94, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "plantilla review is now ongoing and being" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001410", "start_seconds": 5713.94, "end_seconds": 5715.92, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "fast-tracked because we have a" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001411", "start_seconds": 5715.92, "end_seconds": 5717.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "committee for that purpose, of which I" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001412", "start_seconds": 5717.9, "end_seconds": 5719.84, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "am a member, your honor. And we have" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001413", "start_seconds": 5719.84, "end_seconds": 5721.4, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "a lot of proposal already." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001414", "start_seconds": 5722.56, "end_seconds": 5723.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Actually, the Sandigan Bayan has" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001415", "start_seconds": 5723.9, "end_seconds": 5725.14, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "just submitted its" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001416", "start_seconds": 5725.14, "end_seconds": 5728.02, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "consult, how do you" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001417", "start_seconds": 5728.02, "end_seconds": 5728.68, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "call it, the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001418", "start_seconds": 5728.68, "end_seconds": 5732.04, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "report submitted by" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001419", "start_seconds": 5732.04, "end_seconds": 5733.52, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "its consultant. And so far, it's" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001420", "start_seconds": 5733.52, "end_seconds": 5735.82, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "reorganization and the plantilla" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001421", "start_seconds": 5735.82, "end_seconds": 5737.86, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "is concerned, your honor. And we intend to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001422", "start_seconds": 5737.86, "end_seconds": 5739.46, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "take its footsteps" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001423", "start_seconds": 5739.46, "end_seconds": 5741.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "and to be able to review our own processes," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001424", "start_seconds": 5742.12, "end_seconds": 5743.62, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "your honor. I'm sorry, our own" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001425", "start_seconds": 5743.62, "end_seconds": 5745.7, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "upgrading and reclassification." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001426", "start_seconds": 5753.84, "end_seconds": 5754.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Tapos yung" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001427", "start_seconds": 5754.82, "end_seconds": 5756.98, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "proposed budget, there's" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001428", "start_seconds": 5756.98, "end_seconds": 5758.96, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "a 4.09 billion for" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001429", "start_seconds": 5758.96, "end_seconds": 5760.08, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "optional retirement." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001430", "start_seconds": 5761.16, "end_seconds": 5762.7, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, do we have" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001431", "start_seconds": 5762.7, "end_seconds": 5763.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "already a" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001432", "start_seconds": 5763.9, "end_seconds": 5766.54, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "projection on how many would" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001433", "start_seconds": 5766.54, "end_seconds": 5766.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "avail?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001434", "start_seconds": 5768.66, "end_seconds": 5770.66, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, your honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001435", "start_seconds": 5770.78, "end_seconds": 5772.62, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "because we require" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001436", "start_seconds": 5772.62, "end_seconds": 5774.68, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "our judges and court personnel who" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001437", "start_seconds": 5774.68, "end_seconds": 5776.5, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "would avail of an optional" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001438", "start_seconds": 5776.5, "end_seconds": 5778.4, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "retirement to file it at an indicated" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001439", "start_seconds": 5778.4, "end_seconds": 5780.02, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "time, which is January" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001440", "start_seconds": 5780.02, "end_seconds": 5782.54, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "of each year, so that it can be" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001441", "start_seconds": 5782.54, "end_seconds": 5784.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "included in the budget. So, we do" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001442", "start_seconds": 5784.6, "end_seconds": 5786.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "have a projected amount for it," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001443", "start_seconds": 5786.66, "end_seconds": 5788.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "your honor. Thank you, po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001444", "start_seconds": 5788.48, "end_seconds": 5790.92, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Actually, as Chair of Finance," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001445", "start_seconds": 5791.16, "end_seconds": 5792.76, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "just like, you know, we're" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001446", "start_seconds": 5792.76, "end_seconds": 5794.86, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "very concerned with the budget utilization" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001447", "start_seconds": 5794.86, "end_seconds": 5796.94, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and unused appropriations." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001448", "start_seconds": 5797.08, "end_seconds": 5798.68, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "But I think, as mentioned" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001449", "start_seconds": 5798.68, "end_seconds": 5800.76, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "by our Zed President, you have" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001450", "start_seconds": 5800.76, "end_seconds": 5802.36, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "a very good utilization rate." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001451", "start_seconds": 5802.6, "end_seconds": 5803.3, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Ang kakulong." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001452", "start_seconds": 5804.4, "end_seconds": 5806.66, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "With that, Mr. Chair, I would" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001453", "start_seconds": 5806.66, "end_seconds": 5808.46, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "just like again to ask later on." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001454", "start_seconds": 5810.22, "end_seconds": 5810.8, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001455", "start_seconds": 5810.86, "end_seconds": 5811.62, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you very much, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001456", "start_seconds": 5811.94, "end_seconds": 5815.0, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you, Senator JV." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001457", "start_seconds": 5815.24, "end_seconds": 5816.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "We go back to the Senate President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001458", "start_seconds": 5816.68, "end_seconds": 5817.78, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "No, no, go ahead. I will" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001459", "start_seconds": 5817.78, "end_seconds": 5820.5, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "let you exhaust." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001460", "start_seconds": 5821.16, "end_seconds": 5823.64, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "A few more" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001461", "start_seconds": 5823.64, "end_seconds": 5825.4, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "items, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001462", "start_seconds": 5825.56, "end_seconds": 5827.32, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Thank you for your generosity" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001463", "start_seconds": 5827.32, "end_seconds": 5827.98, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "with time." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001464", "start_seconds": 5830.28, "end_seconds": 5831.16, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I'll go to the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001465", "start_seconds": 5831.16, "end_seconds": 5832.26, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Sandigan Bayan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001466", "start_seconds": 5832.26, "end_seconds": 5835.06, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "because I saw in" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001467", "start_seconds": 5835.06, "end_seconds": 5839.08, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "the budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001468", "start_seconds": 5839.08, "end_seconds": 5841.3, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "analysis that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001469", "start_seconds": 5841.3, "end_seconds": 5843.34, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "of course, we have now" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001470", "start_seconds": 5843.34, "end_seconds": 5843.98, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001471", "start_seconds": 5843.98, "end_seconds": 5847.06, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Judiciary Autonomy" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001472", "start_seconds": 5847.06, "end_seconds": 5849.28, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Law or Fiscal Autonomy" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001473", "start_seconds": 5849.28, "end_seconds": 5851.04, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Law. And I saw" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001474", "start_seconds": 5851.04, "end_seconds": 5852.04, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "in the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001475", "start_seconds": 5852.04, "end_seconds": 5855.56, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "DBM recommendation" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001476", "start_seconds": 5855.56, "end_seconds": 5857.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "that was" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001477", "start_seconds": 5857.2, "end_seconds": 5859.0, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "given to us." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001478", "start_seconds": 5860.48, "end_seconds": 5862.04, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Ang proposal nila" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001479", "start_seconds": 5862.04, "end_seconds": 5863.54, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "is to even reduce" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001480", "start_seconds": 5863.54, "end_seconds": 5866.0, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "the Sandigan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001481", "start_seconds": 5866.0, "end_seconds": 5867.8, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Bayan budget by" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001482", "start_seconds": 5867.8, "end_seconds": 5869.92, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "500 million, 550" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001483", "start_seconds": 5869.92, "end_seconds": 5871.82, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "million, which is, I think," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001484", "start_seconds": 5871.94, "end_seconds": 5873.6, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "personally, Mr. Chairman, is" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001485", "start_seconds": 5873.6, "end_seconds": 5875.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "counterintuitive of what we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001486", "start_seconds": 5875.96, "end_seconds": 5876.56, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "want to do." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001487", "start_seconds": 5877.2, "end_seconds": 5879.72, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Because the focus now, actually," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001488", "start_seconds": 5879.72, "end_seconds": 5880.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "is on the Sandigan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001489", "start_seconds": 5880.96, "end_seconds": 5882.66, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Bayan. In fact," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001490", "start_seconds": 5882.78, "end_seconds": 5885.26, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "we should support the Sandigan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001491", "start_seconds": 5885.26, "end_seconds": 5887.38, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Bayan more rather than" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001492", "start_seconds": 5887.38, "end_seconds": 5889.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "reduce its budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001493", "start_seconds": 5889.2, "end_seconds": 5890.64, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "because they need to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001494", "start_seconds": 5890.64, "end_seconds": 5892.38, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "capacitate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001495", "start_seconds": 5892.38, "end_seconds": 5895.3, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "themselves, make" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001496", "start_seconds": 5895.3, "end_seconds": 5896.66, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "themselves more efficient," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001497", "start_seconds": 5897.74, "end_seconds": 5898.6, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "get more" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001498", "start_seconds": 5898.6, "end_seconds": 5902.98, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "manpower to support the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001499", "start_seconds": 5902.98, "end_seconds": 5904.8, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "voluminous cases that are being" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001500", "start_seconds": 5904.8, "end_seconds": 5907.14, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "filed in the Sandigan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001501", "start_seconds": 5907.14, "end_seconds": 5908.46, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So I don't" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001502", "start_seconds": 5908.46, "end_seconds": 5910.94, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "subscribe to the recommendation," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001503", "start_seconds": 5910.96, "end_seconds": 5915.4, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "the recommendation of the DBM to reduce it by 551 million." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001504", "start_seconds": 5915.4, "end_seconds": 5930.5, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "It's hindi tama yung oras at hindi tama yung timing na gagawin natin yan dahil nga napakadami, nakita naman hoon natin sa news ang daming cases sa finafile." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001505", "start_seconds": 5931.24, "end_seconds": 5938.84, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Dapat pa nga dagdagan para po masuportahan at makahabol ng mas mabilis ng paglilitis." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001506", "start_seconds": 5939.68, "end_seconds": 5940.9400000000005, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So with that," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001507", "start_seconds": 5940.96, "end_seconds": 5942.98, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Mr. Chairman, I just want to manifest that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001508", "start_seconds": 5943.9, "end_seconds": 5944.32, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001509", "start_seconds": 5944.32, "end_seconds": 5947.16, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I also saw in the Sandigan," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001510", "start_seconds": 5947.34, "end_seconds": 5949.12, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "this is just an item that I" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001511", "start_seconds": 5949.12, "end_seconds": 5951.3, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "want to ask in the Sandigan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001512", "start_seconds": 5951.3, "end_seconds": 5953.36, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "budget. There's a" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001513", "start_seconds": 5953.36, "end_seconds": 5955.32, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "the capital" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001514", "start_seconds": 5955.32, "end_seconds": 5956.98, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "outlay actually increased" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001515", "start_seconds": 5956.98, "end_seconds": 5959.24, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "in the Sandigan budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001516", "start_seconds": 5959.24, "end_seconds": 5960.52, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "from" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001517", "start_seconds": 5960.52, "end_seconds": 5963.28, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "300 million to 719" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001518", "start_seconds": 5963.28, "end_seconds": 5965.1, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "million. May I ask" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001519", "start_seconds": 5965.1, "end_seconds": 5965.8, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "the Sandigan," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001520", "start_seconds": 5966.42, "end_seconds": 5968.9400000000005, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "what is the rational" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001521", "start_seconds": 5968.9400000000005, "end_seconds": 5970.9400000000005, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "for this increase? Is there," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001522", "start_seconds": 5970.96, "end_seconds": 5972.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "a plan to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001523", "start_seconds": 5972.96, "end_seconds": 5974.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "put more" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001524", "start_seconds": 5974.96, "end_seconds": 5976.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "buildings or put more capacity?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001525", "start_seconds": 5976.96, "end_seconds": 5978.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "May I just ask this" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001526", "start_seconds": 5978.96, "end_seconds": 5980.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "increase in capital" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001527", "start_seconds": 5980.96, "end_seconds": 5982.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "outlay? I saw also the account actually" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001528", "start_seconds": 5982.96, "end_seconds": 5984.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "on building and other structures." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001529", "start_seconds": 5984.96, "end_seconds": 5986.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Thank you, Mr." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001530", "start_seconds": 5986.96, "end_seconds": 5988.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Senate President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001531", "start_seconds": 5988.96, "end_seconds": 5990.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "On behalf of the Sandigan Bayan," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001532", "start_seconds": 5990.96, "end_seconds": 5992.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "I would thank profusely" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001533", "start_seconds": 5992.96, "end_seconds": 5994.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "the Senate President for the support" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001534", "start_seconds": 5994.96, "end_seconds": 5996.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "to the Sandigan Bayan," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001535", "start_seconds": 5996.96, "end_seconds": 5998.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "most especially." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001536", "start_seconds": 5998.96, "end_seconds": 6000.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "To the question being asked," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001537", "start_seconds": 6000.96, "end_seconds": 6002.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "the increase for" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001538", "start_seconds": 6002.96, "end_seconds": 6004.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "capital outlay is the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001539", "start_seconds": 6004.96, "end_seconds": 6006.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "intended construction" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001540", "start_seconds": 6006.96, "end_seconds": 6008.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "of a Sandigan Bayan building" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001541", "start_seconds": 6008.96, "end_seconds": 6010.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "2. We" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001542", "start_seconds": 6010.96, "end_seconds": 6012.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "believe that the construction of the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001543", "start_seconds": 6012.96, "end_seconds": 6014.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Sandigan Bayan building 2 is" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001544", "start_seconds": 6014.96, "end_seconds": 6016.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "very important and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001545", "start_seconds": 6016.96, "end_seconds": 6018.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "timely because our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001546", "start_seconds": 6018.96, "end_seconds": 6020.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "current building where we hold our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001547", "start_seconds": 6020.96, "end_seconds": 6022.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "trial, po," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001548", "start_seconds": 6022.96, "end_seconds": 6024.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Mr. Senate President and Mr." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001549", "start_seconds": 6024.96, "end_seconds": 6026.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Chair," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001550", "start_seconds": 6026.96, "end_seconds": 6028.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "is actually" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001551", "start_seconds": 6028.96, "end_seconds": 6030.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "no longer safe" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001552", "start_seconds": 6030.96, "end_seconds": 6032.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "when we conducted" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001553", "start_seconds": 6032.96, "end_seconds": 6034.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "upon the request" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001554", "start_seconds": 6034.96, "end_seconds": 6036.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "of the Sandigan Bayan, there were" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001555", "start_seconds": 6036.96, "end_seconds": 6038.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "technical studies conducted," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001556", "start_seconds": 6038.96, "end_seconds": 6040.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "2 already done." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001557", "start_seconds": 6040.96, "end_seconds": 6042.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "There are several" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001558", "start_seconds": 6042.96, "end_seconds": 6044.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "columns which are found to be" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001559", "start_seconds": 6046.96, "end_seconds": 6048.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "deficient" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001560", "start_seconds": 6048.96, "end_seconds": 6050.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "and below the standard" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001561", "start_seconds": 6050.96, "end_seconds": 6052.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "of the building." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001562", "start_seconds": 6054.96, "end_seconds": 6056.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "In other words, there is an issue" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001563", "start_seconds": 6056.96, "end_seconds": 6058.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "on the structural integrity," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001564", "start_seconds": 6058.96, "end_seconds": 6060.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "particularly" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001565", "start_seconds": 6060.96, "end_seconds": 6062.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "in the columns of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001566", "start_seconds": 6062.96, "end_seconds": 6064.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "our building so" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001567", "start_seconds": 6064.96, "end_seconds": 6066.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "that not only" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001568", "start_seconds": 6066.96, "end_seconds": 6068.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "the justices and the court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001569", "start_seconds": 6068.96, "end_seconds": 6070.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "employees and personnel" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001570", "start_seconds": 6070.96, "end_seconds": 6072.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "are at risk, but" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001571", "start_seconds": 6072.96, "end_seconds": 6074.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "also our court users" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001572", "start_seconds": 6074.96, "end_seconds": 6076.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "who go to the Sandigan Bayan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001573", "start_seconds": 6076.96, "end_seconds": 6078.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "who are at risk." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001574", "start_seconds": 6078.96, "end_seconds": 6080.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "We do" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001575", "start_seconds": 6080.96, "end_seconds": 6082.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "not, we would like to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001576", "start_seconds": 6082.96, "end_seconds": 6084.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "also emphasize the fact" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001577", "start_seconds": 6084.96, "end_seconds": 6086.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "that we are only 1 kilometer" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001578", "start_seconds": 6086.96, "end_seconds": 6088.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "or about 1.2 kilometer" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001579", "start_seconds": 6088.96, "end_seconds": 6090.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "to be exact from the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001580", "start_seconds": 6090.96, "end_seconds": 6092.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "nearest fault line" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001581", "start_seconds": 6092.96, "end_seconds": 6094.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "and if indeed there" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001582", "start_seconds": 6094.96, "end_seconds": 6096.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "will be a big" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001583", "start_seconds": 6096.96, "end_seconds": 6098.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "jolt that will" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001584", "start_seconds": 6098.96, "end_seconds": 6100.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "affect all of us," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001585", "start_seconds": 6100.96, "end_seconds": 6104.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "we might" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001586", "start_seconds": 6104.2, "end_seconds": 6106.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "be ready but we cannot" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001587", "start_seconds": 6106.2, "end_seconds": 6108.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "answer for the safety" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001588", "start_seconds": 6108.2, "end_seconds": 6110.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "of all our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001589", "start_seconds": 6110.2, "end_seconds": 6112.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "of the court users." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001590", "start_seconds": 6112.2, "end_seconds": 6114.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "As of now, pending the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001591", "start_seconds": 6114.2, "end_seconds": 6116.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "construction, we are only" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001592", "start_seconds": 6116.2, "end_seconds": 6118.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "hoping and capacitating ourselves" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001593", "start_seconds": 6118.2, "end_seconds": 6120.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "to be ready" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001594", "start_seconds": 6120.2, "end_seconds": 6122.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "for any disaster that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001595", "start_seconds": 6122.2, "end_seconds": 6124.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "might happen." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001596", "start_seconds": 6124.2, "end_seconds": 6126.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "We inside the compound" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001597", "start_seconds": 6126.2, "end_seconds": 6128.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "because I know the Sandigan compound" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001598", "start_seconds": 6128.2, "end_seconds": 6130.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "is medyo masikip na rin eh, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001599", "start_seconds": 6130.2, "end_seconds": 6132.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Yes po. The Commission" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001600", "start_seconds": 6132.2, "end_seconds": 6134.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "on Audit was" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001601", "start_seconds": 6134.2, "end_seconds": 6136.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "gracious enough to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001602", "start_seconds": 6136.2, "end_seconds": 6138.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "grant the use of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001603", "start_seconds": 6138.2, "end_seconds": 6140.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "of the total almost" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001604", "start_seconds": 6140.2, "end_seconds": 6142.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "5,000 square meter" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001605", "start_seconds": 6142.2, "end_seconds": 6144.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "for us to build another building." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001606", "start_seconds": 6146.2, "end_seconds": 6148.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "That will only replace the old building" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001607", "start_seconds": 6148.2, "end_seconds": 6150.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "or also are we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001608", "start_seconds": 6150.2, "end_seconds": 6152.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "anticipating more" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001609", "start_seconds": 6152.2, "end_seconds": 6154.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "courts for that building?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001610", "start_seconds": 6154.2, "end_seconds": 6156.2, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "More divisions?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001611", "start_seconds": 6156.2, "end_seconds": 6158.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Right now po, the building where we are" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001612", "start_seconds": 6158.2, "end_seconds": 6160.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "currently occupying only" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001613", "start_seconds": 6160.2, "end_seconds": 6162.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "can only accommodate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001614", "start_seconds": 6162.2, "end_seconds": 6164.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "five divisions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001615", "start_seconds": 6164.2, "end_seconds": 6166.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "So that as we are right now" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001616", "start_seconds": 6166.2, "end_seconds": 6168.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "that two" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001617", "start_seconds": 6168.2, "end_seconds": 6170.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "newly created divisions in" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001618", "start_seconds": 6170.2, "end_seconds": 6172.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "2016 technically" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001619", "start_seconds": 6172.2, "end_seconds": 6174.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "could not be accommodated. That's" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001620", "start_seconds": 6174.2, "end_seconds": 6176.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "why we only have five courtrooms" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001621", "start_seconds": 6176.2, "end_seconds": 6178.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "now and we have to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001622", "start_seconds": 6178.2, "end_seconds": 6180.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "take turns in conducting" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001623", "start_seconds": 6180.2, "end_seconds": 6182.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "cases and hearing the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001624", "start_seconds": 6182.2, "end_seconds": 6184.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "process that are filed. But be that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001625", "start_seconds": 6184.2, "end_seconds": 6186.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "as it may, your honors" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001626", "start_seconds": 6186.2, "end_seconds": 6188.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "may I inform you" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001627", "start_seconds": 6188.2, "end_seconds": 6190.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "that in" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001628", "start_seconds": 6190.2, "end_seconds": 6192.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "in 2026" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001629", "start_seconds": 6192.2, "end_seconds": 6194.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "our caseload in the Sandigan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001630", "start_seconds": 6194.2, "end_seconds": 6196.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "bayan is reduced already" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001631", "start_seconds": 6196.2, "end_seconds": 6198.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "to 525" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001632", "start_seconds": 6198.2, "end_seconds": 6200.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "from" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001633", "start_seconds": 6200.2, "end_seconds": 6202.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "1,229 in" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001634", "start_seconds": 6202.2, "end_seconds": 6204.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "2024," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001635", "start_seconds": 6204.2, "end_seconds": 6206.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "805 in 2026." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001636", "start_seconds": 6206.2, "end_seconds": 6208.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "And our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001637", "start_seconds": 6208.2, "end_seconds": 6210.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "conviction rate in" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001638", "start_seconds": 6210.2, "end_seconds": 6212.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "2026 has greatly" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001639", "start_seconds": 6212.2, "end_seconds": 6214.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "improved." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001640", "start_seconds": 6214.2, "end_seconds": 6216.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "We have a conviction rate already" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001641", "start_seconds": 6216.2, "end_seconds": 6218.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "of 82.48" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001642", "start_seconds": 6218.2, "end_seconds": 6220.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "percent po" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001643", "start_seconds": 6220.2, "end_seconds": 6222.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "in the Sandigan bayan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001644", "start_seconds": 6222.2, "end_seconds": 6224.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Our conviction rate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001645", "start_seconds": 6224.2, "end_seconds": 6226.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "in 2026 is now" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001646", "start_seconds": 6226.2, "end_seconds": 6228.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "stands at 82" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001647", "start_seconds": 6228.2, "end_seconds": 6230.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "point" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001648", "start_seconds": 6230.2, "end_seconds": 6232.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "48 percent." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001649", "start_seconds": 6232.2, "end_seconds": 6236.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "82 po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001650", "start_seconds": 6238.09, "end_seconds": 6240.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "May I give you a" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001651", "start_seconds": 6240.09, "end_seconds": 6242.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "summary of our conviction rate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001652", "start_seconds": 6242.09, "end_seconds": 6244.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "over the years. In" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001653", "start_seconds": 6244.09, "end_seconds": 6246.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "2021, our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001654", "start_seconds": 6246.09, "end_seconds": 6248.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "conviction rate was" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001655", "start_seconds": 6248.09, "end_seconds": 6250.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "11.2." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001656", "start_seconds": 6250.09, "end_seconds": 6252.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "2022," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001657", "start_seconds": 6252.09, "end_seconds": 6254.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "18.06." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001658", "start_seconds": 6254.09, "end_seconds": 6256.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "2023," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001659", "start_seconds": 6256.09, "end_seconds": 6258.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "42.94." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001660", "start_seconds": 6258.09, "end_seconds": 6260.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "2025," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001661", "start_seconds": 6260.09, "end_seconds": 6262.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "39.43." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001662", "start_seconds": 6262.09, "end_seconds": 6264.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "And" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001663", "start_seconds": 6264.09, "end_seconds": 6266.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "2026," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001664", "start_seconds": 6266.09, "end_seconds": 6268.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "82.48." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001665", "start_seconds": 6270.09, "end_seconds": 6272.09, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Justice," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001666", "start_seconds": 6272.09, "end_seconds": 6274.09, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "nung 2021, 11 percent lang" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001667", "start_seconds": 6274.09, "end_seconds": 6276.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "ang conviction rate po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001668", "start_seconds": 6276.09, "end_seconds": 6278.09, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So in other words," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001669", "start_seconds": 6278.09, "end_seconds": 6280.09, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "only 1 out of 10" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001670", "start_seconds": 6280.09, "end_seconds": 6282.09, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "na kaso na kukonvict?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001671", "start_seconds": 6282.09, "end_seconds": 6284.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Yes po. In 2021," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001672", "start_seconds": 6284.09, "end_seconds": 6286.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "1 out of 10 gets convicted." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001673", "start_seconds": 6286.09, "end_seconds": 6288.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "But then," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001674", "start_seconds": 6288.09, "end_seconds": 6290.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "now it has changed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001675", "start_seconds": 6290.09, "end_seconds": 6292.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "We now have 8" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001676", "start_seconds": 6292.09, "end_seconds": 6294.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "convicted out of 10." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001677", "start_seconds": 6294.09, "end_seconds": 6296.09, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So now it's 8 out of 10?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001678", "start_seconds": 6296.09, "end_seconds": 6297.08, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Yes po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001678-split-2", "start_seconds": 6297.08, "end_seconds": 6298.09, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Dapat talaga lakihan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001679", "start_seconds": 6298.09, "end_seconds": 6300.09, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "ng pondo, Chairman. Baka" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001680", "start_seconds": 6300.34, "end_seconds": 6302.76, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "How do you explain that, if I may?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001681", "start_seconds": 6302.98, "end_seconds": 6308.04, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "How do you explain the jump from 39% to 82%?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001682", "start_seconds": 6308.04, "end_seconds": 6316.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "There are varying factors of the disparity, the range in conviction rate." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001683", "start_seconds": 6317.5, "end_seconds": 6322.64, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Among others would be probably in the preparation of the prosecutors." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001684", "start_seconds": 6323.66, "end_seconds": 6328.46, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Maybe the prosecutors have prepared themselves and presented their cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001685", "start_seconds": 6328.46, "end_seconds": 6341.86, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Also, Your Honor, one of the most important factors is when we try the cases sooner, the witnesses are available and the prosecution is prepared." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001686", "start_seconds": 6342.4, "end_seconds": 6350.28, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "The memory of the witnesses is very fresh, and therefore they can tell the court what really happened." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001687", "start_seconds": 6351.28, "end_seconds": 6358.28, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And the delay or the longer the court processes creates also the risk." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001688", "start_seconds": 6358.46, "end_seconds": 6362.72, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "The risk of witnesses being…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001689", "start_seconds": 6362.72, "end_seconds": 6363.46, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "They die." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001690", "start_seconds": 6363.6, "end_seconds": 6364.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "They die or they're…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001691", "start_seconds": 6364.54, "end_seconds": 6365.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Unavailable." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001692", "start_seconds": 6365.56, "end_seconds": 6367.8, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Or they become pressured by whatever, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001693", "start_seconds": 6368.04, "end_seconds": 6368.68, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001694", "start_seconds": 6368.7, "end_seconds": 6369.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Outside extraneous…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001695", "start_seconds": 6370.26, "end_seconds": 6371.0, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001696", "start_seconds": 6371.1, "end_seconds": 6374.26, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So the quicker, the faster, the easier the conviction." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001697", "start_seconds": 6374.44, "end_seconds": 6375.36, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001698", "start_seconds": 6375.48, "end_seconds": 6384.24, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "That's why the Sandigan Bayan is actually pushing for speedy disposition of cases, especially the cases that are recently filed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001699", "start_seconds": 6385.6, "end_seconds": 6388.24, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Mr. Chairman, Mr. President…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001700", "start_seconds": 6388.46, "end_seconds": 6401.54, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Mr. President, with your indulgence, especially right now, with the recent biggest corruption issue in history of our government, which happened last year in flood control, people are enraged." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001701", "start_seconds": 6401.54, "end_seconds": 6418.04, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And people are waiting for actions, and they think in our quest for accountability, and we are instituting reforms so that we would like to practice transparency." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001702", "start_seconds": 6418.46, "end_seconds": 6423.04, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Because we want to bring back the trust of people in government." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001703", "start_seconds": 6423.26, "end_seconds": 6433.7, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, ma'am, we are banking on the Sandigan Bayan, siguro, but it's very important, especially in a fight against corruption, is yung pong certainty of punishment, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001704", "start_seconds": 6434.06, "end_seconds": 6441.54, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Siguro, sabi ni Mr. Chairman, pag tumatagal, nawawala na yung mga witness, tapos yung mga justice inaabutan retirement." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001705", "start_seconds": 6441.54, "end_seconds": 6443.54, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So, we will be…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001706", "start_seconds": 6443.54, "end_seconds": 6447.3, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "We are doing our part also in the Senate, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001707", "start_seconds": 6447.42, "end_seconds": 6447.54, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "By…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001708", "start_seconds": 6448.46, "end_seconds": 6452.36, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "By instituting reforms, by instituting transparency." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001709", "start_seconds": 6453.68, "end_seconds": 6455.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "We're hoping that we can…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001710", "start_seconds": 6455.82, "end_seconds": 6477.2, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Whatever support we can give sa Sandigan po, yung budget niyo na kung kinakilay augment or improve so that, you know, it's very crucial at this point in our history that yung pong certainty of punishment and speedy disposition of justice is very crucial." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001711", "start_seconds": 6477.2, "end_seconds": 6478.2, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "In our fight against…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001712", "start_seconds": 6478.46, "end_seconds": 6485.08, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And for our request to reform the government." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001713", "start_seconds": 6485.44, "end_seconds": 6485.94, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you, ma'am." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001714", "start_seconds": 6486.08, "end_seconds": 6486.76, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001715", "start_seconds": 6486.76, "end_seconds": 6502.32, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Just to inform the senators, of the flood control cases that were filed, the first of the flood control case that was filed by the Honorable Ombudsman was in November 18, 2025." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001716", "start_seconds": 6503.32, "end_seconds": 6508.44, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Of the first cases that were filed, they are already in the defense stage." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001717", "start_seconds": 6508.46, "end_seconds": 6516.94, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "That means that in less than a year, we are already in the defense side." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001718", "start_seconds": 6518.62, "end_seconds": 6520.58, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "So, that's pretty fast po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001719", "start_seconds": 6522.04, "end_seconds": 6526.26, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "How many flood control cases have been filed already to the Sandigan?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001720", "start_seconds": 6526.7, "end_seconds": 6532.9, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "As of today, there are 26 cases that were filed by the Office of the Ombudsman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001721", "start_seconds": 6533.86, "end_seconds": 6534.88, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "26 po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001722", "start_seconds": 6534.88, "end_seconds": 6537.88, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Against senators and against…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001723", "start_seconds": 6538.46, "end_seconds": 6540.18, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Against congressmen." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001724", "start_seconds": 6541.8, "end_seconds": 6550.26, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Out of the 26 cases, you mentioned that some of them are already in the defense stage." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001725", "start_seconds": 6550.44, "end_seconds": 6552.4, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Ilan po ang nasa defense stage na?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001726", "start_seconds": 6552.96, "end_seconds": 6553.74, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "More or less lang." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001727", "start_seconds": 6553.74, "end_seconds": 6557.64, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "The earliest that was filed is already in the defense stage." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001728", "start_seconds": 6561.58, "end_seconds": 6566.74, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "One was archived because the accused was…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001729", "start_seconds": 6566.74, "end_seconds": 6567.74, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Was…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001730", "start_seconds": 6568.46, "end_seconds": 6569.46, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Well, could not be located." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001731", "start_seconds": 6570.34, "end_seconds": 6577.06, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "And the other cases that had co-accused is already in that defense stage already." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001732", "start_seconds": 6577.48, "end_seconds": 6577.82, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001733", "start_seconds": 6578.54, "end_seconds": 6584.5, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So, in other words, we'll see a resolution on that particular case quite soon?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001734", "start_seconds": 6584.5, "end_seconds": 6599.88, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "If we follow the Speedy Trial Act that was enacted by the Supreme Court, we will see the conviction within a year…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001735", "start_seconds": 6599.88, "end_seconds": 6600.5, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "The year po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001736", "start_seconds": 6601.68, "end_seconds": 6603.78, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Or acquittal within the year." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001737", "start_seconds": 6603.86, "end_seconds": 6604.92, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Or acquittal, of course." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001738", "start_seconds": 6608.28, "end_seconds": 6616.18, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Well, the disposition within the year, which may be a conviction or acquittal." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001739", "start_seconds": 6616.18, "end_seconds": 6620.43, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "We're not going to say what our preference is." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001740", "start_seconds": 6622.21, "end_seconds": 6631.17, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "But connected to this, Justice, I actually was doing some research." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001741", "start_seconds": 6631.87, "end_seconds": 6632.59, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "There's this…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001742", "start_seconds": 6632.59, "end_seconds": 6633.59, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "There's this…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001743", "start_seconds": 6633.59, "end_seconds": 6633.63, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "There's this…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001744", "start_seconds": 6633.63, "end_seconds": 6638.01, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "There's this matrix called the Corruption Perceptions Index." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001745", "start_seconds": 6638.39, "end_seconds": 6638.83, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Yes, po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001746", "start_seconds": 6638.83, "end_seconds": 6645.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "In which, noong 2001, we're actually ranked 117, 117." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001747", "start_seconds": 6646.35, "end_seconds": 6652.65, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And in 2025, bumagsak tayo to rank 120." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001748", "start_seconds": 6653.53, "end_seconds": 6661.19, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "We're only higher than Myanmar and Cambodia, which are military junta regimes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001749", "start_seconds": 6661.19, "end_seconds": 6663.19, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So, in other words…" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001750", "start_seconds": 6663.63, "end_seconds": 6676.39, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "The perception of our international peers, mga kasamahan na natin sa ibang bansa, is lumalalaing corruption sa atin." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001751", "start_seconds": 6676.39, "end_seconds": 6681.99, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And that also is connected to investments in our country." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001752", "start_seconds": 6682.09, "end_seconds": 6684.05, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "That's why I saw numbers in our investments." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001753", "start_seconds": 6684.25, "end_seconds": 6686.27, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "It's also gone down." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001754", "start_seconds": 6687.39, "end_seconds": 6692.85, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Lately, the Business Confidence Index by local businessmen has plunged to a negative." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001755", "start_seconds": 6692.85, "end_seconds": 6698.05, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Territory, which is actually even worse than the pandemic time." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001756", "start_seconds": 6698.33, "end_seconds": 6705.35, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So, in other words, the perception of corruption, and also government addressing it, is quite low." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001757", "start_seconds": 6705.65, "end_seconds": 6714.75, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So, I just want to ask the Sandigan, how are we also addressing this perception of corruption?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001758", "start_seconds": 6714.75, "end_seconds": 6722.69, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "As well as, how is the Sandigan also working with the other branches of government?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001759", "start_seconds": 6722.69, "end_seconds": 6728.83, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "To improve our perception of corruption, and eventually make people accountable." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001760", "start_seconds": 6729.05, "end_seconds": 6734.31, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "At the end of the day, ang gusto naman natin kung ang evident siya, claro, then let's make people accountable." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001761", "start_seconds": 6734.93, "end_seconds": 6742.45, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So, and like I said, the executive, legislative, and judiciary, in the eyes of our kababayan, isa lang yan eh." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001762", "start_seconds": 6742.85, "end_seconds": 6744.03, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "One government lang." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001763", "start_seconds": 6744.21, "end_seconds": 6748.77, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So, we want to ask, and right now is a crucial time because of the corruption issue." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001764", "start_seconds": 6748.77, "end_seconds": 6750.35, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So, I want to ask the Sandigan." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001765", "start_seconds": 6751.17, "end_seconds": 6752.25, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "How are we?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001766", "start_seconds": 6752.69, "end_seconds": 6766.05, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "In your internal management discussion, what are the mechanisms that you are employing to improve the perception of corruption in our country?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001767", "start_seconds": 6769.31, "end_seconds": 6770.89, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Senate President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001768", "start_seconds": 6770.89, "end_seconds": 6781.79, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Actually, this Corruption Perception Index is a report of Transparency International, an NGO, an international NGO." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001769", "start_seconds": 6782.13, "end_seconds": 6784.01, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "And there are several parameters." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001770", "start_seconds": 6784.01, "end_seconds": 6793.33, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "That are being considered in rating a country in terms of its performance vis-a-vis corruption." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001771", "start_seconds": 6794.99, "end_seconds": 6798.49, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "The judiciary certainly plays a role." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001772", "start_seconds": 6799.09, "end_seconds": 6805.81, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "But it is only a specific portion that it can address." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001773", "start_seconds": 6805.81, "end_seconds": 6810.77, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "And that is in the speedy disposition of cases, one." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001774", "start_seconds": 6811.77, "end_seconds": 6813.8099999999995, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Two, that the justices." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001775", "start_seconds": 6814.01, "end_seconds": 6821.49, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "And the court system must appear to be credible that it is dispensing justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001776", "start_seconds": 6822.59, "end_seconds": 6834.49, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Important is this credibility of the justice system and the judges, justices, that we can be fair in the decisions that we give." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001777", "start_seconds": 6836.23, "end_seconds": 6843.99, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "And I think the Supreme Court is stressing the need for the justices and the judges to be credible." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001780", "start_seconds": 6845.03, "end_seconds": 6851.3099999999995, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "It is very strong now, the Supreme Court, especially under the Chief Justice, SPJI." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001781", "start_seconds": 6852.3099999999995, "end_seconds": 6855.23, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "That the judges should also be ethical." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001782", "start_seconds": 6855.79, "end_seconds": 6863.41, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "And that we maintain our values as citizens and as judges." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001783", "start_seconds": 6864.55, "end_seconds": 6866.85, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Once we are credible enough." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001784", "start_seconds": 6867.09, "end_seconds": 6873.05, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Once the people will have faith and the Filipino citizen will have faith that we can deliver." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001785", "start_seconds": 6874.01, "end_seconds": 6878.41, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "and give that justice to the Filipino citizens," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001786", "start_seconds": 6879.23, "end_seconds": 6885.8099999999995, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "then perception of justice and non-corruption will increase." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001787", "start_seconds": 6887.03, "end_seconds": 6894.29, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "The step forward for us in the Sandigan Bayan is to ensure that when cases are filed," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001788", "start_seconds": 6895.11, "end_seconds": 6899.8099999999995, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "we attend to the cases and that they are heard immediately." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001789", "start_seconds": 6899.8099999999995, "end_seconds": 6907.93, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Thus, right now in the Sandigan Bayan, everybody, it is open in the internet." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001790", "start_seconds": 6908.79, "end_seconds": 6912.43, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "You can see where the cases are ruffled to." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001791", "start_seconds": 6913.35, "end_seconds": 6921.77, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Even our ruffle of cases is open to the public and it is aired via internet." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001792", "start_seconds": 6922.65, "end_seconds": 6927.43, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Our hearings in the Sandigan Bayan are also made accessible." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001793", "start_seconds": 6927.43, "end_seconds": 6933.91, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "People can listen to the actual hearings conducted" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001794", "start_seconds": 6933.91, "end_seconds": 6941.57, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "so that the people can judge for themselves whether we are biased or not." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001795", "start_seconds": 6942.39, "end_seconds": 6949.49, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "So these are our steps to make sure that we are transparent in what we do." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001796", "start_seconds": 6953.86, "end_seconds": 6960.16, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Internally, we have also made sure that we do not go beyond the period set" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001797", "start_seconds": 6960.16, "end_seconds": 6964.18, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "by the Supreme Court to render decisions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001798", "start_seconds": 6965.28, "end_seconds": 6970.12, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "And that's why I can assure you, Mr. President, Senate President," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001799", "start_seconds": 6970.42, "end_seconds": 6978.5, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "that we are disposing of our cases at the earliest possible time." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001800", "start_seconds": 6979.5, "end_seconds": 6981.98, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Thank you. Thank you for those explanations, Justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001801", "start_seconds": 6981.98, "end_seconds": 6990.08, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And rest assured that we are one in our objective of making people accountable." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001802", "start_seconds": 6990.16, "end_seconds": 6999.16, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "In fact, that's why I said earlier na meron kaming masusuportahan para bumilis" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001803", "start_seconds": 6999.78, "end_seconds": 7003.28, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "at lalong mapanagot natin yung dapat mapanagot." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001804", "start_seconds": 7003.74, "end_seconds": 7008.16, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Yun ang dapat natin gawin in our own way during the budget deliberations." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001805", "start_seconds": 7008.98, "end_seconds": 7012.14, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "Thank you. And that's why, as mentioned by the Court Administrator," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001806", "start_seconds": 7012.14, "end_seconds": 7020.08, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "the Sandigan Bayan has already moved for its reorganization of its staffing pattern." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001807", "start_seconds": 7020.16, "end_seconds": 7027.92, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "So that we can be more responsive in attending to the cases that are filed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001808", "start_seconds": 7028.34, "end_seconds": 7034.14, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "At the end of the day, the measure of the people on the performance of the justices" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001809", "start_seconds": 7034.14, "end_seconds": 7040.84, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "and the court itself is our disposal of cases at the soonest possible time." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001810", "start_seconds": 7041.08, "end_seconds": 7047.28, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Thank you for that. And sana mag tuloy-tuloy na itong 82% conviction rate." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001811", "start_seconds": 7047.28, "end_seconds": 7048.3, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001812", "start_seconds": 7048.3, "end_seconds": 7048.4, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001813", "start_seconds": 7048.4, "end_seconds": 7049.62, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001814", "start_seconds": 7050.16, "end_seconds": 7057.82, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Ang pangarap ni Sen. Pangilinan eh, in many of his speeches." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001815", "start_seconds": 7058.14, "end_seconds": 7060.3, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "When the evidence points to that, po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001816", "start_seconds": 7060.96, "end_seconds": 7061.24, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001817", "start_seconds": 7062.22, "end_seconds": 7064.86, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Mabalik lang ako sa admin matters, Justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001818", "start_seconds": 7065.14, "end_seconds": 7066.46, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Yes, go ahead." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001819", "start_seconds": 7067.1, "end_seconds": 7069.1, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "With the permission of our Senate President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001820", "start_seconds": 7071.28, "end_seconds": 7075.74, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "You know, we were going through some of the conviction rates of other countries" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001821", "start_seconds": 7075.74, "end_seconds": 7077.18, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "in terms of corruption cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001822", "start_seconds": 7077.18, "end_seconds": 7079.18, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Japan is 99%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001823", "start_seconds": 7080.16, "end_seconds": 7092.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Australia is 97% Singapore is 90 plus percent Malaysia 89% Taiwan is 70 to 80% Hong Kong is 80%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001824", "start_seconds": 7092.22, "end_seconds": 7108.0599999999995, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So you can see, you know, we, well, at least with the 82% were somehow on track now how to sustain it and how to ensure that we don't backslide is also a concern." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001825", "start_seconds": 7108.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 7110.1, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So I just wanted to put that on record." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001826", "start_seconds": 7110.16, "end_seconds": 7111.86, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Sir, very important information." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001827", "start_seconds": 7111.86, "end_seconds": 7119.32, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "At least we're now at the level of our developed country peers in the region at 80%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001828", "start_seconds": 7119.32, "end_seconds": 7124.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Although, if I may add, this is still, the year isn't over." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001829", "start_seconds": 7125.3, "end_seconds": 7137.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So hopefully, it'll even be higher, but it can go lower because last year, in your budget hearings in the House, it was off record by August or September." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001830", "start_seconds": 7138.28, "end_seconds": 7138.78, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Ninth." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001831", "start_seconds": 7139.62, "end_seconds": 7140.12, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "What is?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001832", "start_seconds": 7140.16, "end_seconds": 7142.92, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Forty seven point six percent was your conviction rate." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001833", "start_seconds": 7143.58, "end_seconds": 7147.6, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But today you're telling us by the end of the year, it went down to thirty nine." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001834", "start_seconds": 7148.08, "end_seconds": 7158.76, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So boom about, you know, so we will wait for the end of the year to find out if the 82 will be maintained, will be increased or will will fall." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001835", "start_seconds": 7160.54, "end_seconds": 7161.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Just on that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001836", "start_seconds": 7162.0, "end_seconds": 7162.92, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001837", "start_seconds": 7162.92, "end_seconds": 7167.66, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "I'll just, balik lang ako, Justice, doon sa some admin matters." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001838", "start_seconds": 7167.92, "end_seconds": 7169.62, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "You mentioned earlier that the two courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001839", "start_seconds": 7169.62, "end_seconds": 7174.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Simda dalawang bagong divisions, nagsishare sila sa ibang divisions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001840", "start_seconds": 7175.36, "end_seconds": 7179.04, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "So obviously that's a bottleneck." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001841", "start_seconds": 7179.28, "end_seconds": 7189.66, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "If all the divisions can have their own sala or their own facility, then they can hear cases all at the same time." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001842", "start_seconds": 7190.02, "end_seconds": 7194.34, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Will this new facility give them their own sala?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001843", "start_seconds": 7195.42, "end_seconds": 7198.0, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "That is the intention that with the new building." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001844", "start_seconds": 7198.0, "end_seconds": 7199.52, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "We all of the divisions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001845", "start_seconds": 7199.52, "end_seconds": 7200.0, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "We'll have their." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001846", "start_seconds": 7200.0, "end_seconds": 7200.92, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "hearing room." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001847", "start_seconds": 7201.56, "end_seconds": 7203.02, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith Econg", "text": "We have seven. Yes, po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001848", "start_seconds": 7203.1, "end_seconds": 7205.28, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Seven sala? Courtrooms." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001849", "start_seconds": 7205.38, "end_seconds": 7207.38, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Courtrooms. Alright. Thank you" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001850", "start_seconds": 7207.38, "end_seconds": 7209.66, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Justice and rest assured we'll" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001851", "start_seconds": 7209.66, "end_seconds": 7211.4, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "support you on those" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001852", "start_seconds": 7211.4, "end_seconds": 7213.96, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "requirements. Like I said," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001853", "start_seconds": 7214.8, "end_seconds": 7215.84, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "kung ano yung pwede namin" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001854", "start_seconds": 7215.84, "end_seconds": 7218.06, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "maitulong para bumilis yung" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001855", "start_seconds": 7218.06, "end_seconds": 7220.06, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "dispensation ng kaso," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001856", "start_seconds": 7220.44, "end_seconds": 7222.06, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "eh tutulong ho kami." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001857", "start_seconds": 7222.36, "end_seconds": 7224.02, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "And kung kailangan po magpatayo" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001858", "start_seconds": 7224.02, "end_seconds": 7225.7, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "ng building para magkaroon po ng" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001859", "start_seconds": 7225.7, "end_seconds": 7227.86, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "courtroom sabay-sabay at" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001860", "start_seconds": 7227.86, "end_seconds": 7230.08, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "magkaroon ng hearing sabay-sabay, tutulong" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001861", "start_seconds": 7230.08, "end_seconds": 7231.88, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "ho rin ho kami. Thank you. Maraming salamat po" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001862", "start_seconds": 7231.88, "end_seconds": 7233.08, "speaker": "Senator Sherwin \"Win\" T. Gatchalian", "text": "Justice. Thank you Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001863", "start_seconds": 7233.66, "end_seconds": 7235.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you, Senate President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001864", "start_seconds": 7235.82, "end_seconds": 7237.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "We go back to Senator" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001865", "start_seconds": 7237.54, "end_seconds": 7239.8, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "JV for his second..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001866", "start_seconds": 7239.8, "end_seconds": 7241.44, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Actually, Mr. Chair, I'd just like to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001867", "start_seconds": 7241.44, "end_seconds": 7243.8, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "talaga sandigan na rin lang tayo." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001868", "start_seconds": 7244.36, "end_seconds": 7245.3, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yung pong ano na yung" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001869", "start_seconds": 7245.3, "end_seconds": 7247.46, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "hopefully it will" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001870", "start_seconds": 7247.46, "end_seconds": 7249.96, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "improve, no? We were talking" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001871", "start_seconds": 7249.96, "end_seconds": 7251.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "with the Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001872", "start_seconds": 7252.24, "end_seconds": 7253.88, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yung 15 years yung average to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001873", "start_seconds": 7253.88, "end_seconds": 7255.88, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "resolve, hopefully it will be improved now with" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001874", "start_seconds": 7255.88, "end_seconds": 7257.76, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "the... We don't" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001875", "start_seconds": 7257.76, "end_seconds": 7258.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "mind, no? If we can," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001876", "start_seconds": 7259.68, "end_seconds": 7262.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "we will try to fund for additional" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001877", "start_seconds": 7262.02, "end_seconds": 7263.08, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "course, yung sala." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001878", "start_seconds": 7263.52, "end_seconds": 7265.74, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yung pong sinasabi ng ating Senate President, as long as" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001879", "start_seconds": 7265.74, "end_seconds": 7267.94, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "we will be able to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001880", "start_seconds": 7267.94, "end_seconds": 7269.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "shorten, ito po siguro," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001881", "start_seconds": 7269.72, "end_seconds": 7271.88, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "para yung average time" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001882", "start_seconds": 7271.88, "end_seconds": 7273.66, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "to resolve. And also," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001883", "start_seconds": 7274.26, "end_seconds": 7275.4, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "ang ano-ano yung ano," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001884", "start_seconds": 7276.7, "end_seconds": 7277.72, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "ang Concerned Senator" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001885", "start_seconds": 7277.72, "end_seconds": 7279.66, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Kiko, mas gusto niya, at least mataas yung" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001886", "start_seconds": 7279.66, "end_seconds": 7281.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "conviction rate, no? If we can" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001887", "start_seconds": 7281.9, "end_seconds": 7283.54, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "go para at least..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001888", "start_seconds": 7283.54, "end_seconds": 7285.52, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "This is a big deterrent, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001889", "start_seconds": 7285.58, "end_seconds": 7287.62, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "In our fight against graft and corruption." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001890", "start_seconds": 7287.76, "end_seconds": 7289.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "So..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001891", "start_seconds": 7289.82, "end_seconds": 7296.2, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "On performance targets," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001892", "start_seconds": 7296.3, "end_seconds": 7297.56, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "siguro isa na lang, Mr. Chair," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001893", "start_seconds": 7297.8, "end_seconds": 7300.08, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "the budget of the Supreme Court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001894", "start_seconds": 7300.08, "end_seconds": 7301.64, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "of Philippines and the lower courts" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001895", "start_seconds": 7301.64, "end_seconds": 7303.86, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and the adjudication program jumps" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001896", "start_seconds": 7303.86, "end_seconds": 7305.94, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "to 30%, nearly 41" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001897", "start_seconds": 7305.94, "end_seconds": 7306.34, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "billion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001898", "start_seconds": 7307.64, "end_seconds": 7309.46, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yet, your" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001899", "start_seconds": 7309.46, "end_seconds": 7311.74, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "2027 case resolution target of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001900", "start_seconds": 7311.74, "end_seconds": 7313.94, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "690,622" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001901", "start_seconds": 7314.62, "end_seconds": 7315.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "is lower than its" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001902", "start_seconds": 7315.9, "end_seconds": 7318.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "2025 actual accomplishment of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001903", "start_seconds": 7318.02, "end_seconds": 7319.92, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "702,000." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001904", "start_seconds": 7319.94, "end_seconds": 7321.48, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "How can" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001905", "start_seconds": 7321.48, "end_seconds": 7324.26, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "it be justified" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001906", "start_seconds": 7324.26, "end_seconds": 7325.48, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "that the increase in budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001907", "start_seconds": 7325.48, "end_seconds": 7327.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "if the case disposition targets" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001908", "start_seconds": 7327.9, "end_seconds": 7328.72, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "are dropped?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001909", "start_seconds": 7330.76, "end_seconds": 7331.92, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001910", "start_seconds": 7332.42, "end_seconds": 7333.56, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes. Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001911", "start_seconds": 7333.84, "end_seconds": 7335.84, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "one thing with adjudication is that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001912", "start_seconds": 7335.84, "end_seconds": 7337.86, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "you can never project whether a case" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001913", "start_seconds": 7337.86, "end_seconds": 7340.06, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "will be dismissed or" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001914", "start_seconds": 7340.06, "end_seconds": 7342.02, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "whether an accused will be convicted" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001915", "start_seconds": 7342.02, "end_seconds": 7343.84, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "or acquitted. Cases" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001916", "start_seconds": 7343.84, "end_seconds": 7346.2, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "are complex by themselves. The adjudication" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001917", "start_seconds": 7346.2, "end_seconds": 7348.24, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "period may vary from court to court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001918", "start_seconds": 7348.24, "end_seconds": 7349.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "depending on the number of witnesses," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001919", "start_seconds": 7349.94, "end_seconds": 7351.36, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the number of the accused even," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001920", "start_seconds": 7351.7, "end_seconds": 7353.72, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the number of lawyers defending an accused," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001921", "start_seconds": 7353.8, "end_seconds": 7355.32, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the number of motions filed in court." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001922", "start_seconds": 7355.74, "end_seconds": 7357.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So, Your Honor, our" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001923", "start_seconds": 7357.6, "end_seconds": 7359.86, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "performance target may be fixed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001924", "start_seconds": 7359.86, "end_seconds": 7361.98, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "statistically. We can" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001925", "start_seconds": 7361.98, "end_seconds": 7363.72, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "study the regression rate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001926", "start_seconds": 7363.72, "end_seconds": 7365.64, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "with off anything" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001927", "start_seconds": 7365.64, "end_seconds": 7367.92, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "that causes" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001928", "start_seconds": 7367.92, "end_seconds": 7368.98, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "its fluctuation," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001929", "start_seconds": 7369.52, "end_seconds": 7371.54, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "its ebbing or falling, but" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001930", "start_seconds": 7371.54, "end_seconds": 7373.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "a case will always proceed by" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001931", "start_seconds": 7373.78, "end_seconds": 7375.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "itself, Your Honor. So, what we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001932", "start_seconds": 7375.88, "end_seconds": 7377.58, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "can do is really, that's why we're focusing" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001933", "start_seconds": 7377.58, "end_seconds": 7379.84, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "on the internal processes and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001934", "start_seconds": 7379.84, "end_seconds": 7381.72, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the satisfaction of our external" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001935", "start_seconds": 7381.72, "end_seconds": 7383.26, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "stakeholders and our internal" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001936", "start_seconds": 7383.26, "end_seconds": 7385.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "stakeholders. If you combine all of that, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001937", "start_seconds": 7386.1, "end_seconds": 7387.58, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "that is how we define," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001938", "start_seconds": 7387.7, "end_seconds": 7389.22, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "if it is a high-performing court," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001939", "start_seconds": 7389.54, "end_seconds": 7391.92, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "how we define our performance targets." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001940", "start_seconds": 7393.18, "end_seconds": 7393.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Likewise," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001941", "start_seconds": 7394.4, "end_seconds": 7395.14, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Mr. Chair," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001942", "start_seconds": 7395.32, "end_seconds": 7397.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001943", "start_seconds": 7397.5, "end_seconds": 7399.56, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Justice Estoesta, because" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001944", "start_seconds": 7399.56, "end_seconds": 7400.32, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "last week we had" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001945", "start_seconds": 7400.32, "end_seconds": 7403.44, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "the first hearing" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001946", "start_seconds": 7403.44, "end_seconds": 7405.42, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "was the budget briefing was on budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001947", "start_seconds": 7405.42, "end_seconds": 7406.58, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "of the Ombudsman and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001948", "start_seconds": 7406.58, "end_seconds": 7409.22, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Commission on Audit." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001949", "start_seconds": 7409.84, "end_seconds": 7411.94, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "And may pinapatanong po, sa media po ito," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001950", "start_seconds": 7412.0, "end_seconds": 7413.38, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "basahin ko ito, not for me." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001951", "start_seconds": 7413.72, "end_seconds": 7414.5, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Phone in lang po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001952", "start_seconds": 7415.38, "end_seconds": 7417.6, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Good morning, boss. Baka pwedeng patanong" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001953", "start_seconds": 7417.6, "end_seconds": 7419.82, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "kay Justice Estoesta how the SC" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001954", "start_seconds": 7419.82, "end_seconds": 7421.88, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "is addressing Ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001955", "start_seconds": 7421.88, "end_seconds": 7423.52, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Rimulya's concern on the supposed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001956", "start_seconds": 7423.52, "end_seconds": 7425.96, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "questionable actions of some" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001957", "start_seconds": 7425.96, "end_seconds": 7427.78, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "justices who voided" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001958", "start_seconds": 7427.78, "end_seconds": 7429.92, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "the decisions of corruption-related cases" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001959", "start_seconds": 7429.92, "end_seconds": 7431.86, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "and granted bail to government officials" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001960", "start_seconds": 7431.86, "end_seconds": 7433.84, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "facing non-bailable" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001961", "start_seconds": 7433.84, "end_seconds": 7435.4, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "offenses. Thanks. So," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001962", "start_seconds": 7436.14, "end_seconds": 7437.84, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "since I think he," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001963", "start_seconds": 7438.34, "end_seconds": 7439.14, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "the Ombudsman," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001964", "start_seconds": 7439.84, "end_seconds": 7442.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "made those statements in the Senate" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001965", "start_seconds": 7442.02, "end_seconds": 7443.16, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "just for the record, at least" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001966", "start_seconds": 7443.16, "end_seconds": 7445.48, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "ma-address po ng court natin" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001967", "start_seconds": 7445.48, "end_seconds": 7447.7, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "from the judiciary" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001968", "start_seconds": 7447.7, "end_seconds": 7448.9, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "on how we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001969", "start_seconds": 7448.9, "end_seconds": 7451.94, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "this, ano, how this will be addressed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001970", "start_seconds": 7452.48, "end_seconds": 7452.94, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Sige po, ma'am." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001971", "start_seconds": 7453.78, "end_seconds": 7456.24, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "I understand that the Supreme Court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001972", "start_seconds": 7456.24, "end_seconds": 7458.52, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "came up with a statement, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001973", "start_seconds": 7459.12, "end_seconds": 7459.76, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yes, go ahead." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001974", "start_seconds": 7459.82, "end_seconds": 7461.46, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Yes, there's a statement by the Supreme Court." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001975", "start_seconds": 7461.66, "end_seconds": 7463.5, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Nothing to do with a non-bailable offense," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001976", "start_seconds": 7463.62, "end_seconds": 7464.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Mr. Chair." }, { "stable_id": "asr-001977", "start_seconds": 7466.02, "end_seconds": 7467.94, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The statement that came out" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001978", "start_seconds": 7467.94, "end_seconds": 7469.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "from the Supreme Court is in so far," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001979", "start_seconds": 7469.8, "end_seconds": 7471.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "as the resolution of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001980", "start_seconds": 7471.88, "end_seconds": 7474.28, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "the Court of Appeals" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001981", "start_seconds": 7474.28, "end_seconds": 7475.96, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "justices, in so far" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001982", "start_seconds": 7475.96, "end_seconds": 7477.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "as the reversal of adversative" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001983", "start_seconds": 7477.78, "end_seconds": 7479.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "cases filed under" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001984", "start_seconds": 7479.9, "end_seconds": 7481.62, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Rule 43 before the Court of Appeals," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001985", "start_seconds": 7481.66, "end_seconds": 7483.76, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "and they were reversed. And the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001986", "start_seconds": 7483.76, "end_seconds": 7485.84, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Supreme Court statement is to the effect" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001987", "start_seconds": 7485.84, "end_seconds": 7487.44, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "that while we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001988", "start_seconds": 7487.44, "end_seconds": 7488.86, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "welcome" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001989", "start_seconds": 7488.86, "end_seconds": 7491.7, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "a check" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001990", "start_seconds": 7491.7, "end_seconds": 7492.28, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "into" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001991", "start_seconds": 7492.28, "end_seconds": 7497.14, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "a scrutiny" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001992", "start_seconds": 7497.14, "end_seconds": 7498.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "into our actions," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001993", "start_seconds": 7498.78, "end_seconds": 7499.64, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "we cannot," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001994", "start_seconds": 7499.8, "end_seconds": 7502.02, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "there is always" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001995", "start_seconds": 7502.02, "end_seconds": 7504.08, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "a process, and if there is" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001996", "start_seconds": 7504.08, "end_seconds": 7505.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "an allusion to misconduct or" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001997", "start_seconds": 7505.9, "end_seconds": 7507.7, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "corruption or irregularity," }, { "stable_id": "asr-001998", "start_seconds": 7508.16, "end_seconds": 7510.12, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "it should be substantiated" }, { "stable_id": "asr-001999", "start_seconds": 7510.12, "end_seconds": 7511.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "rather than rely on" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002000", "start_seconds": 7511.88, "end_seconds": 7512.92, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "general statements" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002001", "start_seconds": 7512.92, "end_seconds": 7515.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "in public, Your Honor. It should be filed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002002", "start_seconds": 7515.9, "end_seconds": 7517.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "before the proper forum. That was the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002003", "start_seconds": 7517.9, "end_seconds": 7519.66, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "statement made by the Supreme Court, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002004", "start_seconds": 7520.36, "end_seconds": 7521.84, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "But if we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002005", "start_seconds": 7521.84, "end_seconds": 7523.7, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "wish to, yes," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002006", "start_seconds": 7523.86, "end_seconds": 7525.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "may the presiding justice of the Court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002007", "start_seconds": 7525.88, "end_seconds": 7527.4, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "of Appeals be recognized, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002008", "start_seconds": 7527.9, "end_seconds": 7529.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Go ahead, Justice Peralta." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002009", "start_seconds": 7529.8, "end_seconds": 7531.52, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Good morning." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002010", "start_seconds": 7531.78, "end_seconds": 7533.0, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "Thank you. Good morning," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002011", "start_seconds": 7533.38, "end_seconds": 7534.12, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "Mr." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002012", "start_seconds": 7542.54, "end_seconds": 7545.4, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "Senate President" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002013", "start_seconds": 7545.4, "end_seconds": 7546.82, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "Senator Gatchalian." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002014", "start_seconds": 7548.0, "end_seconds": 7549.38, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "Now, with that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002015", "start_seconds": 7549.38, "end_seconds": 7551.48, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "public statement of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002016", "start_seconds": 7551.48, "end_seconds": 7553.74, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "the Ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002017", "start_seconds": 7553.74, "end_seconds": 7555.3, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "that there are" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002018", "start_seconds": 7555.3, "end_seconds": 7556.66, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "many, many cases" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002019", "start_seconds": 7556.66, "end_seconds": 7559.38, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "wherein the Ombudsman" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002020", "start_seconds": 7559.38, "end_seconds": 7561.22, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "was reversed in the Court of Appeals," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002021", "start_seconds": 7561.24, "end_seconds": 7563.16, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "we want to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002022", "start_seconds": 7563.16, "end_seconds": 7564.98, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "present statistics." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002023", "start_seconds": 7566.52, "end_seconds": 7567.44, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "So," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002024", "start_seconds": 7567.8, "end_seconds": 7569.4, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "for the last five years," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002025", "start_seconds": 7570.08, "end_seconds": 7571.14, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "sir," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002026", "start_seconds": 7571.7, "end_seconds": 7573.42, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "for the last five" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002027", "start_seconds": 7573.42, "end_seconds": 7575.26, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "years since 2021" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002028", "start_seconds": 7575.26, "end_seconds": 7577.3, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "up to the present, there" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002029", "start_seconds": 7577.3, "end_seconds": 7579.66, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "were 683 cases" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002030", "start_seconds": 7579.66, "end_seconds": 7581.36, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "appealed to the Court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002031", "start_seconds": 7581.36, "end_seconds": 7583.26, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "of Appeals, either" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002032", "start_seconds": 7583.26, "end_seconds": 7585.5, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "via petition for" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002033", "start_seconds": 7585.5, "end_seconds": 7586.9, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "review under Rule 43" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002034", "start_seconds": 7586.9, "end_seconds": 7589.34, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "or certiorari under" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002035", "start_seconds": 7589.34, "end_seconds": 7590.08, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "Rule 65." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002036", "start_seconds": 7591.24, "end_seconds": 7593.14, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "Of those 683" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002037", "start_seconds": 7593.14, "end_seconds": 7593.66, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "cases," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002038", "start_seconds": 7595.08, "end_seconds": 7597.04, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "only 18%" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002039", "start_seconds": 7597.04, "end_seconds": 7598.86, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. Lampas Peralta", "text": "were" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002040", "start_seconds": 7598.86, "end_seconds": 7601.0, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda C. 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Thank you, Your Honors." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002094", "start_seconds": 7711.3, "end_seconds": 7712.68, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's all." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002095", "start_seconds": 7713.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 7714.54, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "Be rest assured that we will, you know," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002096", "start_seconds": 7714.66, "end_seconds": 7717.02, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "anything that would reduce" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002097", "start_seconds": 7717.02, "end_seconds": 7718.86, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "itong inyong congestion," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002098", "start_seconds": 7719.0599999999995, "end_seconds": 7720.62, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. 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Ejercito", "text": "you can, we'll address all of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002109", "start_seconds": 7740.5599999999995, "end_seconds": 7742.66, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "these concerns that were brought up by" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002110", "start_seconds": 7742.66, "end_seconds": 7744.34, "speaker": "Senator Joseph Victor \"JV\" G. Ejercito", "text": "our Chair and our Senate President. Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002111", "start_seconds": 7744.66, "end_seconds": 7745.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002111-split-2", "start_seconds": 7745.88, "end_seconds": 7746.5599999999995, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you, Senator" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002112", "start_seconds": 7746.5599999999995, "end_seconds": 7748.6, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "JV. I just have a few" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002113", "start_seconds": 7748.6, "end_seconds": 7749.2, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "questions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002114", "start_seconds": 7752.54, "end_seconds": 7754.76, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "What is the... I remember" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002115", "start_seconds": 7754.76, "end_seconds": 7756.4, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "in my first term in the Senate," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002116", "start_seconds": 7756.4, "end_seconds": 7758.12, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the average" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002117", "start_seconds": 7758.12, "end_seconds": 7760.5, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "shelf life of" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002118", "start_seconds": 7760.5, "end_seconds": 7762.3, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "cases in the first-level courts" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002119", "start_seconds": 7762.3, "end_seconds": 7764.12, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "was about six years." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002120", "start_seconds": 7764.84, "end_seconds": 7766.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "I remember in your budget" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002121", "start_seconds": 7766.48, "end_seconds": 7768.4400000000005, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "presentation last year, you were" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002122", "start_seconds": 7768.4400000000005, "end_seconds": 7769.92, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "saying it's now down to four." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002123", "start_seconds": 7770.66, "end_seconds": 7772.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Is that correct? Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002124", "start_seconds": 7772.92, "end_seconds": 7774.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "For the Sandigan Bayan," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002125", "start_seconds": 7774.66, "end_seconds": 7776.58, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "what is the... Do you have" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002126", "start_seconds": 7776.58, "end_seconds": 7778.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the figures as to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002127", "start_seconds": 7778.54, "end_seconds": 7780.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the shelf life of Sandigan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002128", "start_seconds": 7780.34, "end_seconds": 7782.68, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Bayan cases? Would it" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002129", "start_seconds": 7782.68, "end_seconds": 7784.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "somehow" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002130", "start_seconds": 7784.48, "end_seconds": 7786.76, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "adhere to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002131", "start_seconds": 7786.76, "end_seconds": 7788.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the average" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002132", "start_seconds": 7788.48, "end_seconds": 7790.68, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "or is it shorter" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002133", "start_seconds": 7790.68, "end_seconds": 7791.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "or longer?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002134", "start_seconds": 7793.18, "end_seconds": 7794.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Saan mo nakuha yung 15 million?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002135", "start_seconds": 7795.4400000000005, "end_seconds": 7796.54, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "May the Presiding Justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002136", "start_seconds": 7796.54, "end_seconds": 7798.34, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "of the Sandigan Bayan answer your question," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002137", "start_seconds": 7798.46, "end_seconds": 7799.76, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honor. Thank you very much." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002138", "start_seconds": 7803.36, "end_seconds": 7804.28, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Was that in the hearing?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002139", "start_seconds": 7804.28, "end_seconds": 7804.32, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002140", "start_seconds": 7806.36, "end_seconds": 7807.72, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Well, because" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002141", "start_seconds": 7807.72, "end_seconds": 7810.04, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "as the Chairman is" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002142", "start_seconds": 7810.04, "end_seconds": 7812.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "confirming it, in the budget hearing" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002143", "start_seconds": 7812.16, "end_seconds": 7813.02, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "of the Ombudsman," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002144", "start_seconds": 7814.58, "end_seconds": 7816.26, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "they placed... It was" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002145", "start_seconds": 7816.26, "end_seconds": 7818.24, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "placed on record, or at least it was manifested" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002146", "start_seconds": 7818.24, "end_seconds": 7820.14, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "that the shelf life in the Sandigan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002147", "start_seconds": 7820.14, "end_seconds": 7822.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Bayan is... Can you confirm" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002148", "start_seconds": 7822.34, "end_seconds": 7823.38, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "this? Fifteen years?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002149", "start_seconds": 7823.82, "end_seconds": 7824.0599999999995, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Before." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002150", "start_seconds": 7825.8, "end_seconds": 7833.4400000000005, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "Nine to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002151", "start_seconds": 7833.4400000000005, "end_seconds": 7833.84, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jhosep Y. Lopez", "text": "ten." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002152", "start_seconds": 7834.4, "end_seconds": 7836.0599999999995, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Until last year, maybe." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002153", "start_seconds": 7838.74, "end_seconds": 7841.3, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And in addition, perhaps, the other question" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002154", "start_seconds": 7841.3, "end_seconds": 7841.74, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "is" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002155", "start_seconds": 7841.74, "end_seconds": 7845.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "what is the history" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002156", "start_seconds": 7845.34, "end_seconds": 7847.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "of the caseload in the Sandigan" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002157", "start_seconds": 7847.22, "end_seconds": 7849.24, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Bayan also?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002158", "start_seconds": 7849.62, "end_seconds": 7851.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "If you don't have the answers now, ma'am," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002159", "start_seconds": 7851.38, "end_seconds": 7852.8, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "maybe you can just submit it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002160", "start_seconds": 7852.8, "end_seconds": 7853.02, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002161", "start_seconds": 7854.96, "end_seconds": 7857.24, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "The caseload" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002162", "start_seconds": 7857.24, "end_seconds": 7859.0, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "that we have, as I mentioned," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002163", "start_seconds": 7859.16, "end_seconds": 7861.0599999999995, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Your Honor, in 2024," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002164", "start_seconds": 7861.68, "end_seconds": 7862.04, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "we had" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002165", "start_seconds": 7862.04, "end_seconds": 7865.8, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "1,229" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002166", "start_seconds": 7865.8, "end_seconds": 7866.26, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "cases" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002167", "start_seconds": 7866.26, "end_seconds": 7868.22, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "as of December" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002168", "start_seconds": 7868.22, "end_seconds": 7870.32, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "31, 2024." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002169", "start_seconds": 7871.3, "end_seconds": 7872.64, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "In 2025," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002170", "start_seconds": 7872.64, "end_seconds": 7874.46, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "taking into consideration" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002171", "start_seconds": 7874.46, "end_seconds": 7875.46, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "case filing," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002172", "start_seconds": 7876.16, "end_seconds": 7878.62, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "cases that were revived" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002173", "start_seconds": 7878.62, "end_seconds": 7879.82, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "from archives," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002174", "start_seconds": 7880.52, "end_seconds": 7882.04, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "the total case pending" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002175", "start_seconds": 7882.04, "end_seconds": 7884.4, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "December 31, 2025" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002176", "start_seconds": 7884.4, "end_seconds": 7886.0599999999995, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "is 805." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002177", "start_seconds": 7886.68, "end_seconds": 7888.98, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "And in 2026..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002178", "start_seconds": 7888.98, "end_seconds": 7890.0, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "That's 400?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002179", "start_seconds": 7891.18, "end_seconds": 7892.64, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "A difference of..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002180", "start_seconds": 7893.24, "end_seconds": 7894.08, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "About 400 cases?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002181", "start_seconds": 7894.1, "end_seconds": 7896.14, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "We cleared 424" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002182", "start_seconds": 7896.14, "end_seconds": 7898.38, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "cases in the docket." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002183", "start_seconds": 7898.92, "end_seconds": 7899.82, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yes. Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002184", "start_seconds": 7899.82, "end_seconds": 7900.82, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "And the..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002185", "start_seconds": 7901.3, "end_seconds": 7904.24, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "In 2026," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002186", "start_seconds": 7904.46, "end_seconds": 7906.5, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "as of June, we have" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002187", "start_seconds": 7906.5, "end_seconds": 7909.12, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "535" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002188", "start_seconds": 7909.12, "end_seconds": 7910.48, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002189", "start_seconds": 7911.02, "end_seconds": 7912.52, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "That means we cleared" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002190", "start_seconds": 7912.52, "end_seconds": 7915.62, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "270%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002191", "start_seconds": 7915.62, "end_seconds": 7918.53, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "If" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002192", "start_seconds": 7918.53, "end_seconds": 7920.61, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "we can..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002193", "start_seconds": 7920.61, "end_seconds": 7922.03, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "This is 2026, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002194", "start_seconds": 7922.11, "end_seconds": 7923.61, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "535 cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002195", "start_seconds": 7923.91, "end_seconds": 7924.55, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Yes, po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002196", "start_seconds": 7924.55, "end_seconds": 7925.83, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yes. Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002197", "start_seconds": 7926.07, "end_seconds": 7928.41, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "If we start, the earliest data that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002198", "start_seconds": 7928.41, "end_seconds": 7930.43, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "we have prepared for today is" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002199", "start_seconds": 7930.43, "end_seconds": 7931.49, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "in 2019." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002200", "start_seconds": 7932.61, "end_seconds": 7933.91, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "We still had" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002201", "start_seconds": 7933.91, "end_seconds": 7937.09, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "5,237" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002202", "start_seconds": 7937.09, "end_seconds": 7937.6900000000005, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002203", "start_seconds": 7939.51, "end_seconds": 7940.17, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "1,000?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002204", "start_seconds": 7940.99, "end_seconds": 7941.93, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Yes, po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002205", "start_seconds": 7941.97, "end_seconds": 7942.37, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "500?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002206", "start_seconds": 7943.01, "end_seconds": 7943.73, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Yes, po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002207", "start_seconds": 7944.21, "end_seconds": 7947.01, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "So we cleared 90% of our docket" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002208", "start_seconds": 7947.01, "end_seconds": 7948.67, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "in" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002209", "start_seconds": 7948.67, "end_seconds": 7952.65, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "six..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002210", "start_seconds": 7952.65, "end_seconds": 7953.49, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "seven years." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002211", "start_seconds": 7956.53, "end_seconds": 7957.83, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "How do you" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002212", "start_seconds": 7957.83, "end_seconds": 7960.25, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "connect that with the number of cases" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002213", "start_seconds": 7960.25, "end_seconds": 7960.57, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "filed?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002214", "start_seconds": 7962.79, "end_seconds": 7963.99, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Do you have that?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002215", "start_seconds": 7963.99, "end_seconds": 7964.65, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Do you have that data also?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002216", "start_seconds": 7964.89, "end_seconds": 7965.43, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Yes, po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002217", "start_seconds": 7965.75, "end_seconds": 7968.67, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Baka rin kasi mas kukunting cases" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002218", "start_seconds": 7968.67, "end_seconds": 7971.15, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "ang napapile, therefore mas kukunti, diba?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002219", "start_seconds": 7971.89, "end_seconds": 7973.99, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "If you don't have the information..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002220", "start_seconds": 7974.59, "end_seconds": 7975.39, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Admittedly," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002221", "start_seconds": 7975.63, "end_seconds": 7977.25, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "the cases filed" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002222", "start_seconds": 7977.25, "end_seconds": 7979.85, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "of recent" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002223", "start_seconds": 7979.85, "end_seconds": 7981.49, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "years was" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002224", "start_seconds": 7981.49, "end_seconds": 7983.87, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "less than the previous" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002225", "start_seconds": 7983.87, "end_seconds": 7985.83, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "years. So if we could" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002226", "start_seconds": 7985.83, "end_seconds": 7987.75, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "have also some data as to" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002227", "start_seconds": 7987.75, "end_seconds": 7988.6900000000005, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "cases filed, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002228", "start_seconds": 7989.13, "end_seconds": 7991.65, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Kasi that will also" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002229", "start_seconds": 7991.65, "end_seconds": 7993.55, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "figure in, I mean," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002230", "start_seconds": 7993.99, "end_seconds": 7996.01, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "be configured with" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002231", "start_seconds": 7996.01, "end_seconds": 7997.12, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the cases?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002231-split-2", "start_seconds": 7997.12, "end_seconds": 7997.55, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Yes, po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002232", "start_seconds": 7998.55, "end_seconds": 8000.39, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "In 2019," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002233", "start_seconds": 8001.07, "end_seconds": 8001.8099999999995, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "there were" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002234", "start_seconds": 8001.8099999999995, "end_seconds": 8003.61, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "198 cases" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002235", "start_seconds": 8003.61, "end_seconds": 8004.13, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "filed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002236", "start_seconds": 8005.43, "end_seconds": 8007.39, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "And then in 2020," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002237", "start_seconds": 8007.87, "end_seconds": 8008.93, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "117." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002238", "start_seconds": 8009.93, "end_seconds": 8012.17, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "2021, 163." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002239", "start_seconds": 8013.17, "end_seconds": 8013.89, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "2022," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002240", "start_seconds": 8014.8099999999995, "end_seconds": 8015.8099999999995, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "240." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002241", "start_seconds": 8016.8099999999995, "end_seconds": 8017.53, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "2023," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002242", "start_seconds": 8018.21, "end_seconds": 8019.6900000000005, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "263." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002243", "start_seconds": 8020.6900000000005, "end_seconds": 8021.41, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "2024," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002244", "start_seconds": 8022.25, "end_seconds": 8023.73, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "138." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002245", "start_seconds": 8023.99, "end_seconds": 8025.73, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "In 2025," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002246", "start_seconds": 8026.67, "end_seconds": 8028.71, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "97 cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002247", "start_seconds": 8029.51, "end_seconds": 8030.65, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "And this year," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002248", "start_seconds": 8031.11, "end_seconds": 8032.91, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "41 cases" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002249", "start_seconds": 8032.91, "end_seconds": 8034.61, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "are filed. Yes, po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002250", "start_seconds": 8035.3099999999995, "end_seconds": 8036.37, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002251", "start_seconds": 8037.37, "end_seconds": 8038.21, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002252", "start_seconds": 8039.55, "end_seconds": 8039.95, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002253", "start_seconds": 8042.8099999999995, "end_seconds": 8044.99, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yes, we..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002254", "start_seconds": 8044.99, "end_seconds": 8047.09, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Before I continue, we acknowledge" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002255", "start_seconds": 8047.09, "end_seconds": 8049.29, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the presence of our majority leader," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002256", "start_seconds": 8049.63, "end_seconds": 8050.91, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Senator Subiri." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002257", "start_seconds": 8051.91, "end_seconds": 8053.53, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Please, go ahead." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002258", "start_seconds": 8053.63, "end_seconds": 8053.93, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Go ahead." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002259", "start_seconds": 8053.99, "end_seconds": 8055.45, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Just a quick manifestation." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002260", "start_seconds": 8055.75, "end_seconds": 8058.11, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "I'm here in full support of the budget of the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002261", "start_seconds": 8058.11, "end_seconds": 8059.33, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "judiciary. And" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002262", "start_seconds": 8059.33, "end_seconds": 8061.93, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "pwede natin dagdagan, your honors." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002263", "start_seconds": 8062.11, "end_seconds": 8062.91, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Dagdagan natin." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002264", "start_seconds": 8063.59, "end_seconds": 8066.07, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "We've always, they've been always supportive of..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002265", "start_seconds": 8066.07, "end_seconds": 8067.41, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Thank you, ma'am, madam." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002266", "start_seconds": 8067.67, "end_seconds": 8069.09, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "And we're hoping that" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002267", "start_seconds": 8069.09, "end_seconds": 8071.6900000000005, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "we can add their budget." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002268", "start_seconds": 8072.73, "end_seconds": 8072.83, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "And," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002269", "start_seconds": 8072.89, "end_seconds": 8074.73, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "you know, they say," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002270", "start_seconds": 8074.8099999999995, "end_seconds": 8077.51, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "justice delayed is justice denied. But also," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002271", "start_seconds": 8077.93, "end_seconds": 8078.51, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "with no" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002272", "start_seconds": 8078.51, "end_seconds": 8081.13, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "facilities and infrastructure," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002273", "start_seconds": 8081.13, "end_seconds": 8082.91, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "that will also be justice delayed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002274", "start_seconds": 8083.07, "end_seconds": 8083.13, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "So, we have to give them..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002275", "start_seconds": 8083.99, "end_seconds": 8085.21, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "the full support that they need." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002276", "start_seconds": 8085.53, "end_seconds": 8088.13, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "We'd like to recognize our friends from the Supreme Court" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002277", "start_seconds": 8088.13, "end_seconds": 8090.3099999999995, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "that are here. Hopefully, the future" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002278", "start_seconds": 8090.3099999999995, "end_seconds": 8091.8099999999995, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Senate of the future" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002279", "start_seconds": 8091.8099999999995, "end_seconds": 8093.99, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Chief Justice" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002280", "start_seconds": 8093.99, "end_seconds": 8094.87, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "will come from" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002281", "start_seconds": 8094.87, "end_seconds": 8097.07, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "this batch very soon." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002282", "start_seconds": 8097.65, "end_seconds": 8099.17, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "I'd like to thank them for coming." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002283", "start_seconds": 8100.0, "end_seconds": 8102.78, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Honored to have you with us today, Your Honors." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002284", "start_seconds": 8102.98, "end_seconds": 8103.76, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Thank you so much." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002285", "start_seconds": 8103.88, "end_seconds": 8104.22, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002286", "start_seconds": 8104.46, "end_seconds": 8105.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you very much, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002287", "start_seconds": 8105.74, "end_seconds": 8107.98, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you, Senator Migz Zubiri." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002288", "start_seconds": 8109.36, "end_seconds": 8116.52, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Just going back to the shelf life average, can you confirm that?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002289", "start_seconds": 8116.58, "end_seconds": 8117.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Is it 15 years?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002290", "start_seconds": 8117.84, "end_seconds": 8119.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "It was placed on record?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002291", "start_seconds": 8120.64, "end_seconds": 8123.46, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "That was the record of several years ago, Po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002292", "start_seconds": 8123.46, "end_seconds": 8131.26, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "So, admittedly, it was maybe 15 years ago, the shelf life was 20 years." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002293", "start_seconds": 8131.38, "end_seconds": 8133.54, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "And then it was reduced to 15." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002294", "start_seconds": 8133.92, "end_seconds": 8139.3, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Now, the shelf life of a case was averaging nine years." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002295", "start_seconds": 8140.86, "end_seconds": 8141.74, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Still a bit long." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002296", "start_seconds": 8141.94, "end_seconds": 8143.02, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "A bit low, Po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002297", "start_seconds": 8143.04, "end_seconds": 8147.74, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Higher than the national average of cases in the first-level court." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002298", "start_seconds": 8147.8, "end_seconds": 8148.24, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Yes, Po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002299", "start_seconds": 8148.24, "end_seconds": 8153.24, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So, something that the Sandigan Bayan will have to also," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002300", "start_seconds": 8153.46, "end_seconds": 8154.92, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "work on, in terms of..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002301", "start_seconds": 8154.92, "end_seconds": 8155.06, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Yes, Po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002302", "start_seconds": 8155.26, "end_seconds": 8161.64, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But you were saying earlier, as of 2026, November, October, September," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002303", "start_seconds": 8162.72, "end_seconds": 8165.04, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the conviction rate is 82%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002304", "start_seconds": 8165.04, "end_seconds": 8165.62, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Yes, Po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002305", "start_seconds": 8165.84, "end_seconds": 8169.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So, of the 535 cases..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002306", "start_seconds": 8169.34, "end_seconds": 8169.64, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Pending." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002307", "start_seconds": 8170.18, "end_seconds": 8170.58, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Pending." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002308", "start_seconds": 8171.08, "end_seconds": 8176.74, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So far, the conviction has been pegged at 82%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002309", "start_seconds": 8176.74, "end_seconds": 8180.4, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Let me just clarify, Po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002310", "start_seconds": 8180.46, "end_seconds": 8180.78, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yes, please." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002311", "start_seconds": 8180.78, "end_seconds": 8182.78, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "The conviction is of the cases that were..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002312", "start_seconds": 8183.46, "end_seconds": 8184.16, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Disposed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002313", "start_seconds": 8185.0, "end_seconds": 8188.38, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "So, in other words, of this year," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002314", "start_seconds": 8189.96, "end_seconds": 8194.64, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "we disposed already..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002315", "start_seconds": 8194.64, "end_seconds": 8199.62, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "356 cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002316", "start_seconds": 8199.62, "end_seconds": 8207.96, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Of the 356, 82% of those had convictions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002317", "start_seconds": 8208.26, "end_seconds": 8208.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002318", "start_seconds": 8208.76, "end_seconds": 8212.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Because from 805 cases in 2025," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002319", "start_seconds": 8212.16, "end_seconds": 8216.52, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "you've dropped to 535 cases in 2026." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002320", "start_seconds": 8216.62, "end_seconds": 8217.0, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Yes, Po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002321", "start_seconds": 8217.0, "end_seconds": 8220.18, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "You disposed of about 300-plus cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002322", "start_seconds": 8220.44, "end_seconds": 8222.18, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "330 cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002323", "start_seconds": 8222.78, "end_seconds": 8227.64, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And of the 330 cases, 82% is conviction." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002324", "start_seconds": 8227.9, "end_seconds": 8228.4, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Yes, Po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002325", "start_seconds": 8228.54, "end_seconds": 8228.88, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002326", "start_seconds": 8229.56, "end_seconds": 8237.56, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Did the flood control scandal have anything to do with your higher conviction rates?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002327", "start_seconds": 8238.82, "end_seconds": 8240.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Of course, you cannot..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002328", "start_seconds": 8240.16, "end_seconds": 8241.9, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "You can only speculate." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002329", "start_seconds": 8242.16, "end_seconds": 8251.2, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But it might be possible that it became a wake-up call for all of us, I hope." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002330", "start_seconds": 8251.54, "end_seconds": 8252.96, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "If so, then that's good." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002331", "start_seconds": 8254.02, "end_seconds": 8260.98, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "That's one silver lining in coming out of that scandal." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002332", "start_seconds": 8261.22, "end_seconds": 8263.04, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Assuming, you know, maybe." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002333", "start_seconds": 8263.78, "end_seconds": 8266.08, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "At least for us in the Senate," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002334", "start_seconds": 8266.08, "end_seconds": 8272.08, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "it led to a lot of changes in our budget delivery." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002335", "start_seconds": 8272.16, "end_seconds": 8274.18, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "It led to a lot of deliberations thanks to our former chairperson" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002336", "start_seconds": 8274.18, "end_seconds": 8277.92, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "who made it transparent, live-streamed, and the like." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002337", "start_seconds": 8278.08, "end_seconds": 8283.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So, somehow, we'd like to see the silver lining in all of what's happening." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002338", "start_seconds": 8283.38, "end_seconds": 8288.66, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And I'd like to think that partly, you know," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002339", "start_seconds": 8288.72, "end_seconds": 8293.9, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "your higher conviction rates now may have been also influenced by" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002340", "start_seconds": 8293.9, "end_seconds": 8301.9, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "or, you know, brought about by the public's, you know, desire for accountability." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002341", "start_seconds": 8302.16, "end_seconds": 8303.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002342", "start_seconds": 8303.16, "end_seconds": 8307.3, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Now, we go to your structural integrity." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002343", "start_seconds": 8307.3, "end_seconds": 8316.44, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "You're only a kilometer away from the Marikina Valley fault line." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002344", "start_seconds": 8316.44, "end_seconds": 8317.44, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "What do you mean?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002345", "start_seconds": 8317.44, "end_seconds": 8318.44, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Is there..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002346", "start_seconds": 8318.44, "end_seconds": 8324.72, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Do you need a budget apart from buying or purchasing or building, rather, a new building?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002347", "start_seconds": 8324.72, "end_seconds": 8331.18, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Is there an immediate intervention to check on the structural defects and correct it?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002348", "start_seconds": 8331.18, "end_seconds": 8333.34, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "There were already studies conducted." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002349", "start_seconds": 8333.34, "end_seconds": 8336.84, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "One by a private firm." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002350", "start_seconds": 8337.4, "end_seconds": 8340.64, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "And this was confirmed by the DPWH as well." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002351", "start_seconds": 8341.22, "end_seconds": 8344.38, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "And they confirmed that there are structural defects, indeed," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002352", "start_seconds": 8344.52, "end_seconds": 8347.72, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "in our building that we are using right now." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002353", "start_seconds": 8348.3, "end_seconds": 8356.78, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "But to repair this would also entail around 400 million, your honors." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002354", "start_seconds": 8357.0, "end_seconds": 8362.38, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "But the problem is, if we repair this, we cannot stop hearing cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002355", "start_seconds": 8362.58, "end_seconds": 8363.32, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Where we are now, we cannot stop hearing cases." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002356", "start_seconds": 8363.32, "end_seconds": 8363.9, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Where will we go?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002357", "start_seconds": 8364.92, "end_seconds": 8371.04, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And that's why you are appealing that the 500 million for the new building be..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002358", "start_seconds": 8371.04, "end_seconds": 8371.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Is that right?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002359", "start_seconds": 8371.5, "end_seconds": 8371.7, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Is that right?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002360", "start_seconds": 8371.86, "end_seconds": 8372.74, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "500 million?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002361", "start_seconds": 8372.94, "end_seconds": 8383.58, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "So, we decided we will take the risk, continue occupying a building that is not structurally sound," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002362", "start_seconds": 8384.46, "end_seconds": 8388.36, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "and instead opt to build a new building and transfer." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002363", "start_seconds": 8388.36, "end_seconds": 8392.36, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Because we cannot stop the..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002364", "start_seconds": 8392.36, "end_seconds": 8393.46, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Trial." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002365", "start_seconds": 8393.46, "end_seconds": 8400.94, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But in the meantime, while the construction is ongoing, you remain structurally unsound" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002366", "start_seconds": 8400.94, "end_seconds": 8402.92, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "in a building that's structurally unsound." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002367", "start_seconds": 8403.22, "end_seconds": 8403.66, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Yes, sir." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002368", "start_seconds": 8405.16, "end_seconds": 8408.5, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Ourselves, our staff, and the court users." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002369", "start_seconds": 8409.26, "end_seconds": 8409.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Exactly." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002370", "start_seconds": 8412.26, "end_seconds": 8418.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Well, in the JBC, the building that we are renting is structurally unsound." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002371", "start_seconds": 8418.62, "end_seconds": 8421.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "It's being built." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002372", "start_seconds": 8422.36, "end_seconds": 8431.18, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So, what was recommended is we find another building to rent, right?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002373", "start_seconds": 8431.3, "end_seconds": 8431.9, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "We transfer." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002374", "start_seconds": 8432.52, "end_seconds": 8437.24, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "That's not part of your options to ensure your safety?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002375", "start_seconds": 8438.46, "end_seconds": 8440.1, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Not for now, sir." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002376", "start_seconds": 8440.2, "end_seconds": 8443.2, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "Rental will also incur additional expense." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002377", "start_seconds": 8443.66, "end_seconds": 8446.74, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "And we need to fit out the rented space." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002378", "start_seconds": 8447.14, "end_seconds": 8448.72, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "We also need to relocate." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002379", "start_seconds": 8448.72, "end_seconds": 8451.72, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "And when we do, somehow or definitely..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002380", "start_seconds": 8452.36, "end_seconds": 8457.02, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Geraldine Faith A. Econg", "text": "The processing of the cases will also be affected." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002381", "start_seconds": 8458.02, "end_seconds": 8458.2, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yeah." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002382", "start_seconds": 8458.54, "end_seconds": 8460.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But, of course, safety first, right?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002383", "start_seconds": 8460.42, "end_seconds": 8460.74, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "That's what they said." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002384", "start_seconds": 8461.3, "end_seconds": 8469.36, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So, that's a concern that we in the legislative branch in the Senate would like to figure out how we can address." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002385", "start_seconds": 8470.22, "end_seconds": 8478.5, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Anyway, if there are, you know, moving forward, suggestions from the court administrator, if there are any," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002386", "start_seconds": 8478.5, "end_seconds": 8482.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "because we want to make sure that you are safe." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002387", "start_seconds": 8482.36, "end_seconds": 8488.66, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And if there are some stopgap measures, apart from the construction, I don't know." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002388", "start_seconds": 8492.52, "end_seconds": 8495.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Justice Musking, you'd like to..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002389", "start_seconds": 8497.93, "end_seconds": 8501.61, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Michael Frederick L. Musngi", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair, Mr. Senate President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002390", "start_seconds": 8501.89, "end_seconds": 8509.95, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Michael Frederick L. Musngi", "text": "I was just conferring with my colleagues that as a special court, we are conscious of our mandate and we do have special needs." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002391", "start_seconds": 8509.95, "end_seconds": 8516.79, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Michael Frederick L. Musngi", "text": "We'd be very happy to share our special needs through the Office of the Court Administrator." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002392", "start_seconds": 8516.91, "end_seconds": 8522.31, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Michael Frederick L. Musngi", "text": "For the reasons already discussed and explained in this August Chamber." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002393", "start_seconds": 8522.65, "end_seconds": 8523.63, "speaker": "Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Michael Frederick L. Musngi", "text": "Thank you very much, Chair." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002394", "start_seconds": 8523.73, "end_seconds": 8523.95, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002395", "start_seconds": 8524.17, "end_seconds": 8524.43, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002396", "start_seconds": 8524.73, "end_seconds": 8536.23, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Anyway, our office is more than willing to look into this as we deliberate on the budget until its approval by December." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002397", "start_seconds": 8536.97, "end_seconds": 8537.13, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Sure." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002398", "start_seconds": 8537.13, "end_seconds": 8539.49, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "There are additional interventions that we may do." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002399", "start_seconds": 8539.79, "end_seconds": 8540.49, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Let us know, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002400", "start_seconds": 8540.73, "end_seconds": 8541.07, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Go ahead." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002401", "start_seconds": 8541.53, "end_seconds": 8542.95, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yes, Senator J.V." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002402", "start_seconds": 8543.73, "end_seconds": 8544.03, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Migs." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002403", "start_seconds": 8544.35, "end_seconds": 8544.87, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Thank you, Sherman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002404", "start_seconds": 8544.87, "end_seconds": 8545.87, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "I just..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002405", "start_seconds": 8546.91, "end_seconds": 8552.21, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Since the topic is on infrastructure, I just wanted to ask the members of the Court of Appeals here." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002406", "start_seconds": 8554.21, "end_seconds": 8565.65, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "I had initially put amount of 200, I'm not sure if it's 250 or 200 million to help the Northern Mindanao Court of Appeals" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002407", "start_seconds": 8565.65, "end_seconds": 8574.31, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "because our brothers, the justices of the Court of Appeals in Mindanao," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002408", "start_seconds": 8574.31, "end_seconds": 8576.31, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "and I know you're based in Cagayan de Oro." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002409", "start_seconds": 8576.45, "end_seconds": 8576.89, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "So what I..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002410", "start_seconds": 8576.91, "end_seconds": 8581.65, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "So what I initially did, being a proponent of Northern Mindanao, I'm from Northern Mindanao, Cagayan de Oro, Bukidnon," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002411", "start_seconds": 8582.13, "end_seconds": 8585.17, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "we put a fund of about 200 million." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002412", "start_seconds": 8586.53, "end_seconds": 8589.13, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "That was about a few years ago, maybe about five years ago." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002413", "start_seconds": 8589.53, "end_seconds": 8594.71, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Any developments, Your Honor, on building them a decent building in the area?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002414", "start_seconds": 8594.71, "end_seconds": 8602.07, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Because I can, again, make the institutional amendments for the Court of Appeals of Northern Mindanao," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002415", "start_seconds": 8602.45, "end_seconds": 8606.55, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "being a proud citizen of that area." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002416", "start_seconds": 8606.91, "end_seconds": 8615.91, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Your Honor, right now, they're renting, if I'm not mistaken, they're renting the building that is being used by the Court of Appeals." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002417", "start_seconds": 8616.01, "end_seconds": 8618.59, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Any news on that or any developments on that, Your Honors?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002418", "start_seconds": 8622.01, "end_seconds": 8623.07, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda Lampas-Peralta", "text": "Thank you, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002419", "start_seconds": 8624.57, "end_seconds": 8632.51, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda Lampas-Peralta", "text": "May I just inform that in 2012, July 17, the Supreme Court issued a resolution" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002420", "start_seconds": 8633.37, "end_seconds": 8639.51, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda Lampas-Peralta", "text": "approving the allocation from existing savings of the Supreme Court of certain..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002421", "start_seconds": 8639.63, "end_seconds": 8648.55, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda Lampas-Peralta", "text": "amounts for the construction of courthouses, which include Cagayan de Oro Court of Appeals building." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002422", "start_seconds": 8648.55, "end_seconds": 8660.91, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda Lampas-Peralta", "text": "And may I also inform that the Court of Appeals building is not included in the proposed augmentation in the present budget." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002423", "start_seconds": 8663.81, "end_seconds": 8664.85, "speaker": "Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Fernanda Lampas-Peralta", "text": "Only Cebu." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002424", "start_seconds": 8666.37, "end_seconds": 8667.79, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Your Honor, if..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002425", "start_seconds": 8667.79, "end_seconds": 8668.67, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "May I get the commitment?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002426", "start_seconds": 8668.89, "end_seconds": 8669.55, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Because I already put..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002427", "start_seconds": 8669.63, "end_seconds": 8670.25, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "funds there." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002428", "start_seconds": 8670.67, "end_seconds": 8672.73, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "And it goes to the general fund of the Judiciary." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002429", "start_seconds": 8673.19, "end_seconds": 8676.53, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "So, one way or the other, siguro nagamit yun for whatever reason." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002430", "start_seconds": 8676.53, "end_seconds": 8681.89, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "If I make the institutional amendment through the chairman of the subcommittee," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002431", "start_seconds": 8682.43, "end_seconds": 8690.37, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "may I get an assurance from the Judiciary that we can actually finally build them a building in the great city of Cagayan de Oro?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002432", "start_seconds": 8691.29, "end_seconds": 8699.49, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "I recall seeing many justices there recently when we took up the BARM initiatives of the Chief Justice." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002433", "start_seconds": 8699.63, "end_seconds": 8704.03, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "And it's a waste if we can't continue the area development." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002434", "start_seconds": 8705.03, "end_seconds": 8709.43, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "But rest assured, this budget, I will make the institutional amendment necessary." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002435", "start_seconds": 8709.43, "end_seconds": 8715.83, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Just let us know how much you need for the building for the Court of Appeals." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002436", "start_seconds": 8722.68, "end_seconds": 8725.88, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Your Honor, Mr. Chairman, I also give budgets to..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002437", "start_seconds": 8725.88, "end_seconds": 8728.66, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "I have three courts in Bukidnon." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002438", "start_seconds": 8729.44, "end_seconds": 8732.72, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Manolo Fortich, I think the court..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002439", "start_seconds": 8732.72, "end_seconds": 8733.4, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "RTC courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002440", "start_seconds": 8733.88, "end_seconds": 8735.68, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "So, I've been giving RTC courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002441", "start_seconds": 8735.8, "end_seconds": 8738.58, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "In support to the Judiciary in the area." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002442", "start_seconds": 8739.12, "end_seconds": 8742.28, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "But this is a big one because it's really the Court of Appeals." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002443", "start_seconds": 8742.42, "end_seconds": 8745.12, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "I believe the Court of Appeals is based in Cagayan de Oro." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002444", "start_seconds": 8745.64, "end_seconds": 8747.92, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "So, pride po namin yan, being from northern Mindanao." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002445", "start_seconds": 8748.92, "end_seconds": 8750.28, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Wala po, they're just fending." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002446", "start_seconds": 8750.44, "end_seconds": 8752.38, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "At minsan, tumutulo pa nga." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002447", "start_seconds": 8752.62, "end_seconds": 8756.14, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "At pag nagkaka-brown out, meron lang silang genset." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002448", "start_seconds": 8756.22, "end_seconds": 8762.0, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "So, I think best to modernize the Court of Appeals in Mindanao." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002449", "start_seconds": 8762.0, "end_seconds": 8763.84, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "And I'm willing, Mr. President." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002450", "start_seconds": 8763.84, "end_seconds": 8767.96, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "I'm willing to make that initiative for the Court of Appeals there." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002451", "start_seconds": 8768.06, "end_seconds": 8768.56, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Thank you, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002452", "start_seconds": 8768.78, "end_seconds": 8770.16, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Justice Midas." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002453", "start_seconds": 8770.5, "end_seconds": 8772.0, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002454", "start_seconds": 8772.1, "end_seconds": 8775.56, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "Just in response to the query of Senator Subiri." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002455", "start_seconds": 8777.4, "end_seconds": 8780.64, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "We have a judicial complex in Cagayan de Oro." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002456", "start_seconds": 8780.9, "end_seconds": 8784.34, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "We're coming up with a judicial complex in Cagayan de Oro." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002457", "start_seconds": 8784.68, "end_seconds": 8786.96, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "So, it's composed of two buildings." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002458", "start_seconds": 8787.1, "end_seconds": 8790.16, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "One building for CACDO." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002459", "start_seconds": 8790.16, "end_seconds": 8793.1, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "And the other building is for the lower courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002460", "start_seconds": 8793.84, "end_seconds": 8801.4, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "At present, there's already, I think, a DAED for the lower courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002461", "start_seconds": 8801.5, "end_seconds": 8809.02, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "So, we're just trying to match the designs for the two buildings." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002462", "start_seconds": 8809.12, "end_seconds": 8812.24, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "For the CA and the first and second level courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002463", "start_seconds": 8812.74, "end_seconds": 8816.52, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "Rest assured, Your Honor, it's being done." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002464", "start_seconds": 8817.22, "end_seconds": 8822.2, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "Hopefully, we can finish with the DAED before the year ends." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002465", "start_seconds": 8822.78, "end_seconds": 8823.52, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "And hopefully, by..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002466", "start_seconds": 8823.84, "end_seconds": 8830.6, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "Next year, we start the procurement for the works contractor for both buildings." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002467", "start_seconds": 8831.56, "end_seconds": 8834.68, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "So, Justice, if you need more funds for that," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002468", "start_seconds": 8834.8, "end_seconds": 8836.68, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "I mean, we're willing to make the amendment." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002469", "start_seconds": 8838.06, "end_seconds": 8839.14, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "Thank you for that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002470", "start_seconds": 8839.68, "end_seconds": 8844.34, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "In the budget hearing before the House of Representatives," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002471", "start_seconds": 8844.34, "end_seconds": 8852.6, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "just last Monday, we requested for augmentations for CDO." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002472", "start_seconds": 8853.84, "end_seconds": 8856.34, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "And we requested for allowances for that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002473", "start_seconds": 8856.34, "end_seconds": 8856.84, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002474", "start_seconds": 8856.92, "end_seconds": 8858.08, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "And we'll do the same for before the Senate." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002475", "start_seconds": 8858.14, "end_seconds": 8858.78, "speaker": "Associate Justice Jose Midas P. Marquez", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002476", "start_seconds": 8858.78, "end_seconds": 8860.26, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "You love our support, Your Honors." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002477", "start_seconds": 8860.38, "end_seconds": 8860.64, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002478", "start_seconds": 8860.72, "end_seconds": 8861.0, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002479", "start_seconds": 8862.5, "end_seconds": 8863.06, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002480", "start_seconds": 8863.16, "end_seconds": 8863.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002481", "start_seconds": 8865.32, "end_seconds": 8868.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Very quickly, on other matters." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002482", "start_seconds": 8869.86, "end_seconds": 8871.2, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Just a few more concerns." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002483", "start_seconds": 8873.98, "end_seconds": 8877.7, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "There's a gap of 9.17 billion" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002484", "start_seconds": 8877.7, "end_seconds": 8883.7, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "between the DBM's recommendation and your request for augmentation." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002485", "start_seconds": 8883.84, "end_seconds": 8884.42, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "augmentation." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002486", "start_seconds": 8886.42, "end_seconds": 8887.04, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "It will increase" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002487", "start_seconds": 8887.04, "end_seconds": 8888.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "if it is included" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002488", "start_seconds": 8888.34, "end_seconds": 8893.76, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "in the request" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002489", "start_seconds": 8893.76, "end_seconds": 8895.6, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "and concern of Senator Zubiri." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002490", "start_seconds": 8896.2, "end_seconds": 8896.4, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Now," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002491", "start_seconds": 8897.74, "end_seconds": 8899.92, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "maybe you don't have to answer it now," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002492", "start_seconds": 8900.02, "end_seconds": 8901.18, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "but maybe you can submit." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002493", "start_seconds": 8901.86, "end_seconds": 8902.12, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "If" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002494", "start_seconds": 8902.12, "end_seconds": 8906.0, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "there is not enough," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002495", "start_seconds": 8906.44, "end_seconds": 8907.78, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "what are your priorities?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002496", "start_seconds": 8910.84, "end_seconds": 8912.0, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Assuming we can give" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002497", "start_seconds": 8912.0, "end_seconds": 8912.84, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "everything, why not?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002498", "start_seconds": 8913.84, "end_seconds": 8915.64, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But in the event" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002499", "start_seconds": 8915.64, "end_seconds": 8917.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "that the fiscal space" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002500", "start_seconds": 8917.46, "end_seconds": 8919.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "is too tight, can you" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002501", "start_seconds": 8919.48, "end_seconds": 8921.66, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "at least identify by priority" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002502", "start_seconds": 8921.66, "end_seconds": 8923.5, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "which" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002503", "start_seconds": 8923.5, "end_seconds": 8924.28, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "of these" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002504", "start_seconds": 8924.28, "end_seconds": 8927.78, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "9.17 plus plus" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002505", "start_seconds": 8927.78, "end_seconds": 8929.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "or 9 billion plus plus" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002506", "start_seconds": 8929.48, "end_seconds": 8931.8, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "allocation, appropriation" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002507", "start_seconds": 8931.8, "end_seconds": 8933.4, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "are your priorities?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002508", "start_seconds": 8933.96, "end_seconds": 8934.64, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Is it not included" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002509", "start_seconds": 8934.64, "end_seconds": 8936.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "in the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002510", "start_seconds": 8936.48, "end_seconds": 8939.4, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "500 million?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002511", "start_seconds": 8939.54, "end_seconds": 8941.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Or is it in the request" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002512", "start_seconds": 8941.46, "end_seconds": 8942.56, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "for augmentation? No." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002513", "start_seconds": 8942.56, "end_seconds": 8942.66, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "No." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002514", "start_seconds": 8943.84, "end_seconds": 8946.74, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "It is not included." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002515", "start_seconds": 8947.1, "end_seconds": 8947.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002516", "start_seconds": 8947.96, "end_seconds": 8949.18, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The MOOE only." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002517", "start_seconds": 8949.74, "end_seconds": 8949.94, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002518", "start_seconds": 8950.24, "end_seconds": 8951.04, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002519", "start_seconds": 8951.34, "end_seconds": 8952.4, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "thank you very much." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002520", "start_seconds": 8952.54, "end_seconds": 8954.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We will be submitting the identification" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002521", "start_seconds": 8954.8, "end_seconds": 8956.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "of our priorities, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002522", "start_seconds": 8957.04, "end_seconds": 8958.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "especially in terms of infrastructure." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002523", "start_seconds": 8959.52, "end_seconds": 8961.1, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "But up to now, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002524", "start_seconds": 8961.18, "end_seconds": 8962.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "we have not received the comment" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002525", "start_seconds": 8962.6, "end_seconds": 8964.96, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "from the Department of Budget and Management" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002526", "start_seconds": 8964.96, "end_seconds": 8967.04, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "so that we can make our own" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002527", "start_seconds": 8967.04, "end_seconds": 8969.08, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "comment likewise on the same." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002528", "start_seconds": 8969.52, "end_seconds": 8971.16, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Chairman, if I may, by the way," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002529", "start_seconds": 8971.48, "end_seconds": 8972.4, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "just for the record," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002530", "start_seconds": 8972.72, "end_seconds": 8973.68, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "it was on the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002531", "start_seconds": 8973.68, "end_seconds": 8975.44, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "2021-2022 budget." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002532", "start_seconds": 8975.78, "end_seconds": 8977.74, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "It's 300 million pesos that we" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002533", "start_seconds": 8977.74, "end_seconds": 8979.48, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "put as an institutional amendment" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002534", "start_seconds": 8979.48, "end_seconds": 8981.88, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "for the whole complex." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002535", "start_seconds": 8982.78, "end_seconds": 8984.06, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Last update we got" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002536", "start_seconds": 8984.06, "end_seconds": 8985.68, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "from the CDO-HOJ," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002537", "start_seconds": 8986.32, "end_seconds": 8987.04, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "procurement and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002538", "start_seconds": 8987.04, "end_seconds": 8989.4, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "rebidding of consulting services," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002539", "start_seconds": 8989.88, "end_seconds": 8990.96, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "detailed engineering design." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002540", "start_seconds": 8991.16, "end_seconds": 8993.66, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "So, support us for the next batch" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002541", "start_seconds": 8993.66, "end_seconds": 8995.24, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "if you need. Thank you very much, sir." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002542", "start_seconds": 8996.86, "end_seconds": 8997.66, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "May we hear from" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002543", "start_seconds": 8997.66, "end_seconds": 8998.7, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the BBM?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002544", "start_seconds": 9000.0, "end_seconds": 9007.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "In terms of the earlier manifestation of the court administrator, go ahead." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002545", "start_seconds": 9007.92, "end_seconds": 9011.3, "speaker": "DBM Merika Joanna S. Dela Peña-Pangan", "text": "Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, and good afternoon to everyone." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002546", "start_seconds": 9011.74, "end_seconds": 9019.86, "speaker": "DBM Merika Joanna S. Dela Peña-Pangan", "text": "With regards to the copy of the DBM comments, we just followed, first, as we followed what's written in the law," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002547", "start_seconds": 9019.86, "end_seconds": 9024.1, "speaker": "DBM Merika Joanna S. Dela Peña-Pangan", "text": "to provide DBM comments as an attachment to the NEP." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002548", "start_seconds": 9025.3, "end_seconds": 9028.54, "speaker": "DBM Merika Joanna S. Dela Peña-Pangan", "text": "It doesn't say anything about providing comments to the Supreme Court," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002549", "start_seconds": 9028.54, "end_seconds": 9034.5, "speaker": "DBM Merika Joanna S. Dela Peña-Pangan", "text": "but we acknowledge that it's in the IRR." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002550", "start_seconds": 9035.34, "end_seconds": 9036.54, "speaker": "DBM Merika Joanna S. Dela Peña-Pangan", "text": "Nevertheless, if..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002551", "start_seconds": 9037.16, "end_seconds": 9038.24, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "After all, they are affected." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002552", "start_seconds": 9038.64, "end_seconds": 9040.38, "speaker": "DBM Merika Joanna S. Dela Peña-Pangan", "text": "Yes, we agree." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002553", "start_seconds": 9041.72, "end_seconds": 9053.52, "speaker": "DBM Merika Joanna S. Dela Peña-Pangan", "text": "Nevertheless, we were made aware that copies of those comments were received by the offices of the Senate President and the Speaker of the House." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002554", "start_seconds": 9053.52, "end_seconds": 9058.52, "speaker": "DBM Merika Joanna S. Dela Peña-Pangan", "text": "So we were advised, we asked them if they can secure a copy." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002555", "start_seconds": 9058.54, "end_seconds": 9061.98, "speaker": "DBM Merika Joanna S. Dela Peña-Pangan", "text": "So we asked them if they can secure a copy from the offices of the Senate President and the Speaker of the House." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002556", "start_seconds": 9062.4, "end_seconds": 9065.0, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Would you care to comment? We'll give it to you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002557", "start_seconds": 9065.76, "end_seconds": 9068.76, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Well, we're number one." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002558", "start_seconds": 9068.88, "end_seconds": 9070.8, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We always invoke due process, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002559", "start_seconds": 9071.0, "end_seconds": 9079.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "And if there is a nine billion gap in the comment that would affect our budget proposal, Your Honor," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002560", "start_seconds": 9080.2, "end_seconds": 9083.5, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "we were actually expecting that we'd be furnished copies of the same." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002561", "start_seconds": 9083.62, "end_seconds": 9085.28, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Even just one copy will do, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002562", "start_seconds": 9086.24, "end_seconds": 9089.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Ibigay, ibigay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002576", "start_seconds": 9089.66, "end_seconds": 9094.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And we will, when is the budget of the DBM committee?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002577", "start_seconds": 9094.9, "end_seconds": 9095.16, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002578", "start_seconds": 9095.26, "end_seconds": 9096.9, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "We'll raise that also with the DBM." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002579", "start_seconds": 9096.96, "end_seconds": 9098.18, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002580", "start_seconds": 9098.18, "end_seconds": 9100.72, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So we will raise it with your boss." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002581", "start_seconds": 9101.38, "end_seconds": 9101.58, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002582", "start_seconds": 9102.28, "end_seconds": 9102.56, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002583", "start_seconds": 9103.82, "end_seconds": 9106.66, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Another, another, a few more points." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002584", "start_seconds": 9107.18, "end_seconds": 9115.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "On the, on the unfilled positions, how does that now, how do you reconcile this with the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002585", "start_seconds": 9115.62, "end_seconds": 9118.08, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "request for additional appropriations?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002586", "start_seconds": 9118.08, "end_seconds": 9123.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Appropriations for creation of new positions, when you have, is that right?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002587", "start_seconds": 9123.54, "end_seconds": 9129.52, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "30% of your current staffing pattern is unfilled." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002588", "start_seconds": 9129.52, "end_seconds": 9133.52, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "That's right, right?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002589", "start_seconds": 9133.52, "end_seconds": 9134.52, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002590", "start_seconds": 9134.52, "end_seconds": 9135.84, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So that's a lot, right?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002591", "start_seconds": 9135.84, "end_seconds": 9136.84, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002592", "start_seconds": 9136.84, "end_seconds": 9139.84, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "If you're, what is the PS?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002593", "start_seconds": 9139.84, "end_seconds": 9147.4, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So if your PS is 58 billion, and your unfilled positions is 30% of your positions in the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002594", "start_seconds": 9147.4, "end_seconds": 9154.8, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "new positions in your plantilia, so of course this is maybe a rough estimate, so that's" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002595", "start_seconds": 9154.8, "end_seconds": 9162.52, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "about 30% of 58 billion, maybe, give or take a few billion, but that's a, that's a huge" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002596", "start_seconds": 9162.52, "end_seconds": 9162.78, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "amount." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002597", "start_seconds": 9162.86, "end_seconds": 9164.76, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "That's about 10, 15 billion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002598", "start_seconds": 9166.76, "end_seconds": 9176.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "How do you now, how do we now reconcile billions of PS funding for unfilled positions, which" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002599", "start_seconds": 9176.46, "end_seconds": 9177.38, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "becomes savings?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002600", "start_seconds": 9178.3, "end_seconds": 9185.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And the request for augmentation, plus the request for creation of new positions, and" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002601", "start_seconds": 9185.46, "end_seconds": 9186.98, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "budgetary support for this." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002602", "start_seconds": 9188.32, "end_seconds": 9189.98, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "We will have to reconcile that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002603", "start_seconds": 9190.0, "end_seconds": 9190.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, sir." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002604", "start_seconds": 9191.2, "end_seconds": 9197.82, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "You can give us initially your comments, and then maybe you can submit to us also in writing" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002605", "start_seconds": 9197.82, "end_seconds": 9200.96, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "how we can defend this." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002606", "start_seconds": 9201.48, "end_seconds": 9206.86, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Because if your savings are big, maybe we can, of course, maybe we can do it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002607", "start_seconds": 9206.86, "end_seconds": 9208.98, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Baka pwedeng doon na kunin yung augmentation." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002608", "start_seconds": 9209.48, "end_seconds": 9210.34, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Hindi ko alam naman." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002609", "start_seconds": 9210.6, "end_seconds": 9211.68, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But please, go ahead." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002610", "start_seconds": 9212.1, "end_seconds": 9212.32, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002611", "start_seconds": 9212.82, "end_seconds": 9220.02, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Your Honor, the unfilled positions may either represent the organized courts or the unorganized courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002612", "start_seconds": 9220.4, "end_seconds": 9222.92, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "When it comes to organized, they're already existing." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002613", "start_seconds": 9222.92, "end_seconds": 9229.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So it is probable that we call it unfilled because some of the judge may have been promoted," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002614", "start_seconds": 9230.18, "end_seconds": 9234.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "have already resigned, or has already retired or passed away." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002615", "start_seconds": 9234.78, "end_seconds": 9237.84, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Some of the personnel may have done the same." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002616", "start_seconds": 9238.32, "end_seconds": 9249.06, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "But insofar as the courts who have no judges, we do assign other judges to be acting presiding judges on them" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002617", "start_seconds": 9249.06, "end_seconds": 9251.9, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "or to assist for that purpose." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002618", "start_seconds": 9252.42, "end_seconds": 9259.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "But that's actually the unfilled position." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002619", "start_seconds": 9259.78, "end_seconds": 9264.72, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "So we would need, likewise, even if they are characterized as unfilled, we would need a budget." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002620", "start_seconds": 9264.78, "end_seconds": 9272.84, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Because there are personnel insofar as those unfilled but organized courts are concerned." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002621", "start_seconds": 9274.0, "end_seconds": 9275.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "When you say unfilled, there's no judge?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002622", "start_seconds": 9275.68, "end_seconds": 9276.34, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "There's no judge." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002623", "start_seconds": 9276.56, "end_seconds": 9280.44, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So it does not necessarily mean the unfilled position includes the court?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002624", "start_seconds": 9280.72, "end_seconds": 9281.0, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002625", "start_seconds": 9281.22, "end_seconds": 9282.52, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Not the entire court." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002626", "start_seconds": 9282.54, "end_seconds": 9283.36, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Not the entire court." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002627", "start_seconds": 9283.38, "end_seconds": 9283.62, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002628", "start_seconds": 9283.8, "end_seconds": 9284.36, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002629", "start_seconds": 9284.54, "end_seconds": 9289.6, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So when you say 30% unfilled, that refers to the judges?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002630", "start_seconds": 9290.0, "end_seconds": 9291.18, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The judge or the court personnel." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002631", "start_seconds": 9291.46, "end_seconds": 9292.28, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Can we have a breakdown?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002632", "start_seconds": 9292.48, "end_seconds": 9292.98, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002633", "start_seconds": 9292.98, "end_seconds": 9294.76, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Which would be court personnel?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002634", "start_seconds": 9294.78, "end_seconds": 9296.44, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Court personnel and which would be judges?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002635", "start_seconds": 9296.94, "end_seconds": 9300.32, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But for the judges, what is your vacancy?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002636", "start_seconds": 9301.74, "end_seconds": 9309.74, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "For the judges, we have a temporary vacancy, meaning ito po yung nagaantay ng appointment sa presidente, 319." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002637", "start_seconds": 9310.14, "end_seconds": 9315.5, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yung unorganized courts po, 170 or a total of 489." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002638", "start_seconds": 9315.84, "end_seconds": 9322.64, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yung unorganized po, ito po yung newly created na nagaantay rin po kami ng NOSCA from the Department of Budget and Management." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002639", "start_seconds": 9322.64, "end_seconds": 9324.64, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And the 489?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002640", "start_seconds": 9324.78, "end_seconds": 9326.8, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "The 489 would be 30%?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002641", "start_seconds": 9327.12, "end_seconds": 9327.28, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "No." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002642", "start_seconds": 9327.58, "end_seconds": 9327.68, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "No." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002643", "start_seconds": 9330.6, "end_seconds": 9332.24, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Of the entire 16?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002644", "start_seconds": 9333.32, "end_seconds": 9336.24, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "489 vacancy out of 3,000." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002645", "start_seconds": 9336.54, "end_seconds": 9338.16, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Ano nga ba yung courts natin?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002646", "start_seconds": 9338.28, "end_seconds": 9339.34, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "3,000 courts?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002647", "start_seconds": 9341.74, "end_seconds": 9346.3, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Ang total po ng courts namin is..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002648", "start_seconds": 9346.3, "end_seconds": 9347.66, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yung kaninang ano po?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002649", "start_seconds": 9348.26, "end_seconds": 9349.62, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "3,000." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002650", "start_seconds": 9350.78, "end_seconds": 9356.1, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We have a total of 2,885 courts po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002651", "start_seconds": 9356.86, "end_seconds": 9360.2, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "That does not represent yung warm bodies po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002652", "start_seconds": 9360.28, "end_seconds": 9361.12, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So 2,800." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002653", "start_seconds": 9361.52, "end_seconds": 9364.38, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But there are 489 vacancies." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002654", "start_seconds": 9365.0, "end_seconds": 9368.86, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "I cannot do my math po, but that represents a percentage of..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002655", "start_seconds": 9368.86, "end_seconds": 9374.04, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "2,885 divided by..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002656", "start_seconds": 9374.04, "end_seconds": 9375.38, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "489." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002657", "start_seconds": 9375.94, "end_seconds": 9377.34, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "18% your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002658", "start_seconds": 9377.58, "end_seconds": 9378.6, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "18% only." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002659", "start_seconds": 9380.08, "end_seconds": 9380.58, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002660", "start_seconds": 9381.08, "end_seconds": 9384.6, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Kasi po madali naman po talaga silang mapunan, ma-filled up." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002661", "start_seconds": 9384.6, "end_seconds": 9386.56, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The JBS is very active on it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002662", "start_seconds": 9386.86, "end_seconds": 9389.26, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "The Promotions Selection Board of the..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002663", "start_seconds": 9389.26, "end_seconds": 9392.42, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "In fact, it's low compared to previous years." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002664", "start_seconds": 9392.6, "end_seconds": 9393.16, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes po." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002665", "start_seconds": 9395.08, "end_seconds": 9398.84, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "I remember when I was with the JBC for that eight-year period," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002666", "start_seconds": 9399.1, "end_seconds": 9402.66, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "we were able to bring it down from 32% to 16%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002667", "start_seconds": 9402.66, "end_seconds": 9405.14, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "We slashed it in half." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002668", "start_seconds": 9406.4, "end_seconds": 9410.2, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And that meant the JBC was interviewing lawyers," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002669", "start_seconds": 9411.28, "end_seconds": 9412.82, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "30 lawyers every day." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002670", "start_seconds": 9413.28, "end_seconds": 9415.12, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "To fill that up." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002671", "start_seconds": 9415.12, "end_seconds": 9416.12, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So now it's..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002672", "start_seconds": 9416.86, "end_seconds": 9417.46, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "18%." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002673", "start_seconds": 9417.46, "end_seconds": 9418.52, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So that's..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002674", "start_seconds": 9418.52, "end_seconds": 9422.3, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Maybe we should push the JBC." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002675", "start_seconds": 9422.58, "end_seconds": 9423.26, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Of course, I'm there." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002676", "start_seconds": 9424.9, "end_seconds": 9428.26, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "To bring it down to single digit." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002677", "start_seconds": 9428.54, "end_seconds": 9429.18, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002678", "start_seconds": 9429.34, "end_seconds": 9430.34, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "That's the goal, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002679", "start_seconds": 9430.5, "end_seconds": 9430.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yeah." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002680", "start_seconds": 9430.96, "end_seconds": 9431.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002681", "start_seconds": 9431.78, "end_seconds": 9431.98, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Sige." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002682", "start_seconds": 9432.18, "end_seconds": 9438.74, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So anyway, if you can submit it in writing so that we can be able to defend it on the floor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002683", "start_seconds": 9438.82, "end_seconds": 9440.06, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Should there be any questions?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002684", "start_seconds": 9440.52, "end_seconds": 9440.98, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, sir." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002685", "start_seconds": 9441.84, "end_seconds": 9442.86, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "I guess..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002686", "start_seconds": 9443.48, "end_seconds": 9444.06, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Vacancies." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002687", "start_seconds": 9446.75, "end_seconds": 9447.35, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002688", "start_seconds": 9448.03, "end_seconds": 9448.73, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Oh, there you go." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002689", "start_seconds": 9449.35, "end_seconds": 9450.07, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yeah." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002690", "start_seconds": 9450.55, "end_seconds": 9450.81, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Sige." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002691", "start_seconds": 9451.41, "end_seconds": 9458.15, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yung unfilled positions and how do we reconcile it with additional funding for newly..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002692", "start_seconds": 9458.15, "end_seconds": 9459.71, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "For positions to be created." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002693", "start_seconds": 9461.31, "end_seconds": 9462.03, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002694", "start_seconds": 9462.59, "end_seconds": 9464.55, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Well, I have no other questions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002695", "start_seconds": 9465.51, "end_seconds": 9472.81, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Maybe just the concern that for your fiscal autonomy act," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002696", "start_seconds": 9473.43, "end_seconds": 9474.65, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "that you still..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002697", "start_seconds": 9474.65, "end_seconds": 9477.99, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "You are still in the process of finalizing the IRR, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002698", "start_seconds": 9477.99, "end_seconds": 9478.59, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So that..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002699", "start_seconds": 9478.75, "end_seconds": 9478.99, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yeah." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002700", "start_seconds": 9479.65, "end_seconds": 9483.95, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So as soon as that is available or ready, please inform us, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002701", "start_seconds": 9484.13, "end_seconds": 9486.05, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "We will do that, Your Honor, Mr." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002702", "start_seconds": 9486.05, "end_seconds": 9486.17, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002703", "start_seconds": 9486.63, "end_seconds": 9486.95, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002704", "start_seconds": 9490.06, "end_seconds": 9490.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002705", "start_seconds": 9492.56, "end_seconds": 9497.2, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And then there will be a transition from the JDF to the trust fund, no?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002706", "start_seconds": 9497.38, "end_seconds": 9497.96, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002707", "start_seconds": 9498.56, "end_seconds": 9498.76, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Right?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002708", "start_seconds": 9499.04, "end_seconds": 9499.68, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002709", "start_seconds": 9499.7, "end_seconds": 9500.86, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Also because of the law." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002710", "start_seconds": 9501.2, "end_seconds": 9501.86, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002711", "start_seconds": 9502.4, "end_seconds": 9506.14, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And how do you look at the transition?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002712", "start_seconds": 9506.14, "end_seconds": 9509.14, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Will that be completed within this year or...?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002713", "start_seconds": 9509.66, "end_seconds": 9511.32, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Yes, it's in the IRR, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002714", "start_seconds": 9511.5, "end_seconds": 9516.78, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "On the 80-20% that is provided for in the Judiciary Development Fund," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002715", "start_seconds": 9517.0, "end_seconds": 9520.74, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "we'll have a big change in so far as the Judiciary Trust Fund is concerned." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002716", "start_seconds": 9520.74, "end_seconds": 9524.0, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "But not until the IRR is issued, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002717", "start_seconds": 9524.32, "end_seconds": 9528.18, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "That's the only time we can share how we plan to go about it." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002718", "start_seconds": 9528.28, "end_seconds": 9528.88, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you, your honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002719", "start_seconds": 9529.5, "end_seconds": 9529.74, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And the..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002720", "start_seconds": 9530.66, "end_seconds": 9535.88, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Is it correct that the JDF right now stands at how much?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002721", "start_seconds": 9537.24, "end_seconds": 9539.76, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "It's 18 billion, is it correct?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002722", "start_seconds": 9540.0, "end_seconds": 9540.28, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "18." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002723", "start_seconds": 9540.28, "end_seconds": 9548.36, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Of course, that is 26 billion and disbursement of 23 billion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002724", "start_seconds": 9548.72, "end_seconds": 9551.5, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But this is a period of almost 20 years." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002725", "start_seconds": 9553.0, "end_seconds": 9553.86, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So we'll just..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002726", "start_seconds": 9553.86, "end_seconds": 9556.38, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Anyway, I really don't have much." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002727", "start_seconds": 9557.86, "end_seconds": 9559.84, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Just one more, one more question." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002728", "start_seconds": 9559.98, "end_seconds": 9560.88, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "This is for the CTA." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002729", "start_seconds": 9563.12, "end_seconds": 9569.84, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "The Law on Anti-Agriculture Economic Sabotage Act." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002730", "start_seconds": 9570.28, "end_seconds": 9574.08, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "That the CTA has primary jurisdiction." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002731", "start_seconds": 9575.8, "end_seconds": 9580.28, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And the complaint has always been that there is no smuggler." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002732", "start_seconds": 9580.28, "end_seconds": 9588.3, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Anti-economic sabotage is a non-bailable offense." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002733", "start_seconds": 9589.96, "end_seconds": 9597.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And they have announced billions of confiscations." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002734", "start_seconds": 9600.28, "end_seconds": 9605.88, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "They have 4 billion, 500 million, cigarellos." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002735", "start_seconds": 9605.88, "end_seconds": 9611.12, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And the non-bailable amount is 10 million." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002736", "start_seconds": 9613.7, "end_seconds": 9619.96, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So, but interesting enough, despite the confiscation of billions," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002737", "start_seconds": 9621.28, "end_seconds": 9624.24, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "there is no smuggler who is still in prison." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002738", "start_seconds": 9626.1, "end_seconds": 9627.86, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "For the value of 10 million." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002739", "start_seconds": 9628.46, "end_seconds": 9630.78, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So you have all these public pronouncements." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002740", "start_seconds": 9631.28, "end_seconds": 9631.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Of course, this is..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002741", "start_seconds": 9631.88, "end_seconds": 9636.44, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "The whole, you know, the whole slew of the cooperation of the BOC," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002742", "start_seconds": 9636.88, "end_seconds": 9640.9, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "the cooperation of the DOJ, et cetera, prosecution, et cetera," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002743", "start_seconds": 9641.06, "end_seconds": 9642.42, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "to be able to do this." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002744", "start_seconds": 9643.08, "end_seconds": 9648.48, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But, you know, it's strange that the public announcements are so..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002745", "start_seconds": 9649.08, "end_seconds": 9651.44, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Are in the billions, hundreds of millions." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002746", "start_seconds": 9651.84, "end_seconds": 9657.88, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But when it boils down to prosecution, no one is being jailed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002747", "start_seconds": 9657.88, "end_seconds": 9658.92, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But there is no..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002748", "start_seconds": 9658.92, "end_seconds": 9660.88, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "There is no non-bailable..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002749", "start_seconds": 9661.88, "end_seconds": 9667.86, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Offense where the masterminds, you know, are..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002750", "start_seconds": 9667.86, "end_seconds": 9669.06, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "There are those who have been jailed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002751", "start_seconds": 9669.18, "end_seconds": 9672.94, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "A bodeguero, something like that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002752", "start_seconds": 9673.84, "end_seconds": 9676.98, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But anyway, my concern really is," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002753", "start_seconds": 9677.3, "end_seconds": 9683.2, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "what support do you need to be able to achieve the mandate of the Republic Act," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002754", "start_seconds": 9683.26, "end_seconds": 9684.88, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "of which you have primary jurisdiction?" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002755", "start_seconds": 9685.4, "end_seconds": 9686.74, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "Okay, good morning, Your Honors." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002756", "start_seconds": 9687.24, "end_seconds": 9691.78, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "First, Your Honor, I would like to give the picture that we have now in the city," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002757", "start_seconds": 9691.88, "end_seconds": 9697.8, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "the law that we are talking about is Republic Act 12022," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002758", "start_seconds": 9698.1, "end_seconds": 9701.68, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "and this was made effective last October 2025." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002759", "start_seconds": 9702.62, "end_seconds": 9707.32, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "And so far, there are about 16 cases pending hearing before our courts." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002760", "start_seconds": 9707.94, "end_seconds": 9714.2, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "And the first case filed is due for promulgation of the decision this October." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002761", "start_seconds": 9714.78, "end_seconds": 9719.92, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "So I agree that there is yet no conviction because the cases were filed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002762", "start_seconds": 9719.92, "end_seconds": 9720.92, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "The first case was..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002763", "start_seconds": 9721.88, "end_seconds": 9724.5, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "The first case filed was in March 2026." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002764", "start_seconds": 9725.26, "end_seconds": 9730.3, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "So that case will have its promulgation of the decision this October." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002765", "start_seconds": 9731.68, "end_seconds": 9733.96, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "And as for those..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002766", "start_seconds": 9733.96, "end_seconds": 9739.36, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "This is indeed a non-bailable offense for an amount exceeding 10 million," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002767", "start_seconds": 9739.54, "end_seconds": 9742.44, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "and we have denied petitions for bail," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002768", "start_seconds": 9742.58, "end_seconds": 9746.2, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "and there are presently incarcerated, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002769", "start_seconds": 9746.2, "end_seconds": 9751.93, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "Thank you." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002770", "start_seconds": 9753.53, "end_seconds": 9755.87, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "The driver..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002771", "start_seconds": 9756.55, "end_seconds": 9758.79, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "Yes, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002772", "start_seconds": 9758.85, "end_seconds": 9765.25, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "There are indeed drivers and passengers who are also included in the information." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002773", "start_seconds": 9765.91, "end_seconds": 9770.21, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "But in the cases that we have been hearing, at least in our division," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002774", "start_seconds": 9771.03, "end_seconds": 9775.97, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "the supposed importer or the owner are also presently detained." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002775", "start_seconds": 9776.49, "end_seconds": 9777.25, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay, okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002776", "start_seconds": 9777.81, "end_seconds": 9780.13, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "I don't want you to go into the merits of the case," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002777", "start_seconds": 9780.13, "end_seconds": 9785.11, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "but it's enough to know that that's the status of the case." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002778", "start_seconds": 9785.11, "end_seconds": 9786.67, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And we hope there'll be more." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002779", "start_seconds": 9793.16, "end_seconds": 9793.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Oh, yeah." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002780", "start_seconds": 9794.12, "end_seconds": 9797.82, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And the establishment of your courts in the Visayas and Mindanao," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002781", "start_seconds": 9797.94, "end_seconds": 9798.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "is that..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002782", "start_seconds": 9798.62, "end_seconds": 9799.8, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "How is that..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002783", "start_seconds": 9801.06, "end_seconds": 9802.94, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Under the law, you have..." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002784", "start_seconds": 9802.94, "end_seconds": 9804.7, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "Under the law, yes, Senator." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002785", "start_seconds": 9804.96, "end_seconds": 9813.54, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "There is that provision in the law that allows us to create new courts in the Visayas and also in Mindanao." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002786", "start_seconds": 9813.54, "end_seconds": 9817.48, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "But so far, with the number of cases that we have been receiving," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002787", "start_seconds": 9817.8, "end_seconds": 9820.1, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "for our discussion last NBank," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002788", "start_seconds": 9820.1, "end_seconds": 9827.0, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "we are not really pushing it this time because of the minimal number of cases being filed." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002789", "start_seconds": 9828.14, "end_seconds": 9828.26, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yeah." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002790", "start_seconds": 9828.66, "end_seconds": 9836.28, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Well, I just wanted this on record so that to inform also our justices and our judges." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002791", "start_seconds": 9838.0, "end_seconds": 9847.1, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "You know, agriculture smuggling is killing the local farming and fishing sector." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002792", "start_seconds": 9847.8, "end_seconds": 9850.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And our food security is compromised." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002793", "start_seconds": 9850.52, "end_seconds": 9852.72, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Not just food security, food safety." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002794", "start_seconds": 9853.5, "end_seconds": 9862.14, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Because what we are hearing is what are meant to be condemned in China are smuggled here," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002795", "start_seconds": 9863.54, "end_seconds": 9870.92, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "washed with formalin, and then brought into the wet markets." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002796", "start_seconds": 9871.92, "end_seconds": 9875.4, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So this is yung salvage value." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002797", "start_seconds": 9875.4, "end_seconds": 9877.26, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Bibili ng patapon nang mura," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002798", "start_seconds": 9877.26, "end_seconds": 9877.78, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "tapos" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002799", "start_seconds": 9877.78, "end_seconds": 9882.26, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "ibebenta dito nang mataas na presyo." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002800", "start_seconds": 9883.04, "end_seconds": 9888.88, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So that's not just a health risk." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002801", "start_seconds": 9889.06, "end_seconds": 9892.92, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "It's also undermines our food security." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002802", "start_seconds": 9893.52, "end_seconds": 9899.62, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Pag walang kalaban-laban yung mga magsasaka natin sa presyo na pinapasok," }, { "stable_id": "asr-002803", "start_seconds": 9900.0, "end_seconds": 9918.2, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "hindi na nga tiyak yung kaligtasan mo, 'di ba? Tapos pinapatay pa yung local na industry. That's why smuggling of agricultural products is something that we really have to go hammer and tongs in addressing." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002804", "start_seconds": 9918.64, "end_seconds": 9920.1, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "I agree, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002805", "start_seconds": 9920.1, "end_seconds": 9930.82, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "And I would like also to share that we have already drafted our own rules insofar as the application of search warrants and seizure orders from these smuggled goods." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002806", "start_seconds": 9931.48, "end_seconds": 9939.9, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "So this was made effective last July 1, so just barely eight months after the promulgation or the enactment of the law." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002807", "start_seconds": 9940.06, "end_seconds": 9947.22, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "So this is already in place to facilitate the easier filing of the search warrants and SOs before the CTA." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002808", "start_seconds": 9947.22, "end_seconds": 9949.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And in our anti-smuggling activity." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002809", "start_seconds": 9950.1, "end_seconds": 9952.5, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Agri-smuggling hearings in the Committee on Agriculture." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002810", "start_seconds": 9954.12, "end_seconds": 9964.32, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "You know, in the last three years, the biggest, the billion peso importer of rice, you know, who was given the necessary permits." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002811", "start_seconds": 9965.22, "end_seconds": 9967.78, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Five of them were able to import." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002812", "start_seconds": 9968.7, "end_seconds": 9972.96, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "They were the largest and their addresses were the same street." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002813", "start_seconds": 9975.96, "end_seconds": 9979.92, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And the corporate secretary of one was a." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002814", "start_seconds": 9980.1, "end_seconds": 9981.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Married to a jeepney driver." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002815", "start_seconds": 9982.44, "end_seconds": 9985.28, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "The corporate secretary of the other one was." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002816", "start_seconds": 9987.12, "end_seconds": 9989.32, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Was the wife of the jeepney driver." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002817", "start_seconds": 9990.76, "end_seconds": 9993.56, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "You know, it's, you know, it's really." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002818", "start_seconds": 9993.56, "end_seconds": 10004.86, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "And that's why the anti-corruption, that's why 10 million non-bailable is critical in terms of enforcement so that." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002819", "start_seconds": 10008.18, "end_seconds": 10010.06, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "But anyway." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002820", "start_seconds": 10010.1, "end_seconds": 10018.28, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Having said that, whatever the CTA needs in terms of support, if we can augment your budgets, we will do so." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002821", "start_seconds": 10019.28, "end_seconds": 10025.54, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So that we can fight smuggling and ensure our food security." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002822", "start_seconds": 10026.06, "end_seconds": 10026.84, "speaker": "CTA Associate Justice Jean Marie A. Bacorro-Villena", "text": "Thank you, Senator." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002823", "start_seconds": 10027.14, "end_seconds": 10029.22, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Are there other questions from our." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002824", "start_seconds": 10033.04, "end_seconds": 10033.1, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yes." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002825", "start_seconds": 10034.0, "end_seconds": 10034.26, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002826", "start_seconds": 10034.56, "end_seconds": 10036.8, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "So there being no other questions, there's a motion." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002827", "start_seconds": 10036.8, "end_seconds": 10040.04, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "I move, Your Honor, our chairman of the subcommittee." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002828", "start_seconds": 10040.1, "end_seconds": 10048.86, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "That we approve on committee level, the budget of the Supreme Court, Court of Tax Appeals, the Court of Appeals and the" }, { "stable_id": "asr-002829", "start_seconds": 10048.86, "end_seconds": 10053.98, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Sandiganbayan and all other attached agencies with the codicil that we can increase their budget." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002830", "start_seconds": 10053.98, "end_seconds": 10054.48, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002831", "start_seconds": 10055.48, "end_seconds": 10056.18, "speaker": "Senator Juan Miguel \"Migz\" F. Zubiri", "text": "Thank you, Mr." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002832", "start_seconds": 10056.44, "end_seconds": 10057.96, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Moved and seconded." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002833", "start_seconds": 10058.66, "end_seconds": 10067.86, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "There being no further questions, and because of the motion duly seconded, the budget of the Judiciary is deemed submitted to plenary." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002834", "start_seconds": 10068.6, "end_seconds": 10068.9, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Okay." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002835", "start_seconds": 10068.9, "end_seconds": 10092.68, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you, Justice Estoresta, the Honorable Justice Marquez, Justice Alameda, Justice Justice Lopez to our honorable judges and justices of this Court of Appeals of the Sandigan Bayan Court of Tax Appeals, of course, our Court Administrator's Office and to everyone." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002836", "start_seconds": 10092.68, "end_seconds": 10097.04, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Magandang tanghali. Maraming, maraming salamat. Our overwhelming thanks po, Your Honor." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002837", "start_seconds": 10097.08, "end_seconds": 10098.42, "speaker": "Court Administrator Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta", "text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Chair." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002838", "start_seconds": 10098.9, "end_seconds": 10105.72, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Yes, the committee hearing of the subcommittee G of the Committee on Finance is suspended." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002839", "start_seconds": 10106.2, "end_seconds": 10106.96, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Thank you very much." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002840", "start_seconds": 10107.02, "end_seconds": 10107.42, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "Good afternoon." }, { "stable_id": "asr-002841", "start_seconds": 10107.42, "end_seconds": 10107.68, "speaker": "Senator Francis Kiko Pangilinan", "text": "..." } ] }