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Philippines: New disaster department costly, needless - senators

Source(s): Business Mirror - Philippine Business Daily Mirror Publishing, Inc.
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By Butch Fernandez

Even as pressure mounted for a House-backed bill creating a separate Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR) in Philipinnes, two senators warned on Monday there is no money to set this up, and the move contradicts the “rightsizing” efforts to cut bureaucratic costs.

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Lacson cited estimates by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) that at least P1.5 billion is needed just to set up the new department, noting “that does not yet include added salaries, capital outlay like office facilities, furniture, vehicles, MOOE, and CIF,” referring to maintenance and other operating expenditures and cost of insurance and freight.

The opposition senator rejected the move to create an additional full-blown department focused solely on disaster management, deploring it as a “knee-jerk reaction.”

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The DDR bill was passed by the House of Representatives in September while its counterpart bill is still under consideration in the Senate Committee on National Defense.

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