The DOTr secretary has been directed to submit additional stationing and validation details for identified projects, as well as information on around 1,500 projects that currently lack complete details, by Friday.

By tomorrow, Dizon will be submitting the request of Sen. Legarda for the list of district under the revised NEP.

Sen. Legarda: It's incumbent upon the agencies not just DPWH to finish what they started whether the proponent is incumbent or not.

Dizon said that the president told him to use all the money that they have to finish those unfinished projects, health centers, hospitals, classrooms, etc.

Sec. Dizon: In the planning stages, in the budgeting stages, we must really prioritize projects that remain to be unfinished.

Sec. Dizon said that there is still no concrete plans for what Sen. Legarda been saying about the scientific nature-based solutions to flood mitigation in the 12 water regions in planning in 2026.

Sec. Dizon: Tama po si Senator Legarda, this is a communication problem. Because it is not the same project, it is a continuation of the same project and that is need to be reflected in the line item which clearly it is not.

In #MalolosBulacan two constructions of diversion road were seen with exact title of projects but has different amount of PhP 30,000,000 in year 2025 and PhP 100,000,000 for the year of 2026.

Sen. Win Gatchalian spotted projects that occurred three times for the year of 2023,2024, and 2026 and four times that appear from year 2023 to 2026.

Sen. Rodante Marcoleta said when they asked former DPWH Sec. Manuel Bonoan, he admitted the “allocable funding” refers to the portion prepared specifically in the House of Representatives to ensure that the projects already outlined in the National Expenditure Program (NEP) would remain untouched.

Sen. Loren Legarda opened the discussion on the definition of “allocable” and “non-allocable,” noting that in the previous hearing, “allocable” was jokingly defined as “maaaring i-alok.”

Sec. Dizon: There are two things po na gusto naming gawin sa bagong administrasyon, una ay ang pre-audit instead of post audit lang, at clear guidelines kung kailan ba dapat mag re-block.

Sen. Erwin Tulfo asked Sec. Dizon their way on controlling the reported duplication of projects similar to public claims that once a project is completed, projects were being dug up and redone again.

Out of 946 projects, 798 were validated amounting to PhP 11,656, 026,000.

Sec. Dizon: Red Flag 4 were project that were seen by the committee as repeating themselves, that's exactly the same– the very similar items from 2025 budget.

There are total of 946 projects identified amounting to PhP 14,455,150,000.

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