{"id":209752,"date":"2019-04-13T03:39:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T07:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=209752"},"modified":"2019-04-13T03:39:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T07:39:12","slug":"poe-pushes-amendments-to-public-services-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/13\/poe-pushes-amendments-to-public-services-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Poe pushes amendments to Public Services Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_169963\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169963\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Grace-Poe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-169963\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Grace-Poe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Grace-Poe.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Grace-Poe-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Grace-Poe-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-169963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poe, chair of the Senate committee on public services, made the statement amid the continuing water supply shortage in Metro Manila and the spate of power outages in Luzon. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sengracepoe\/photos\/a.631774263520458.1073741901.502799529751266\/1910164459014759\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sengracepoe\/\">Grace Poe\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Senator Grace Poe on Friday pushed for the passage of a legislation amending the 82-year-old Public Services Act to provide better quality services to Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>Poe, chair of the Senate committee on public services, made the statement amid the continuing water supply shortage in Metro Manila and the spate of power outages in Luzon.<\/p>\n<p>Poe said power and water utilities, as well as telecommunication companies, are \u201cforcing\u201d Filipinos into \u201cearly penitence\u201d because of their poor service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Walang tubig, walang kuryente, walang<\/em>\u00a0internet.\u00a0<em>Sobrang kalbaryo. Sa susunod na linggo pa ang Mahal na Araw pero nauna na ang pwersahang penitensya<\/em>\u00a0(There\u2019s no water, electricity, and internet. The suffering is intense. Holy Week is still next week but the forced penitence came in early),\u201d Poe said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Tandaan natin, may mga probisyon sa kontrata ng mga kumpanya na kailangang kalidad na serbisyo ang maibibigay sa taumbayan, at may kaukulang penalty ang hindi makakatugon<\/em>\u00a0(Remember, there are provisions in the contracts of companies that they should provide quality service to the people and a corresponding penalty shall be imposed if this is not met),\u201d Poe added.<\/p>\n<p>Poe also urged government regulators to be more \u201cactive\u201d in pursuing their mandate and power to ensure that service providers would be able to meet their responsibilities in providing the essential services to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Sa Senado, may panukalang batas tayo<\/em>, Public Services Act\u00a0<em>na naglalayong masiguro na kalidad na serbisyo lamang ang natatangap ng ating mamamayan sa abot-kayang halaga. Isusulong natin ang pagpasa nito<\/em>\u00a0(In the Senate, we have proposed legislation, Public Services Act, which aims to ensure that quality service is being delivered to Filipinos at an affordable price. We are pushing for its passage),\u201d Poe said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senator Grace Poe on Friday pushed for the passage of a legislation amending the 82-year-old Public Services Act to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":169963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209753,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209752\/revisions\/209753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}