{"id":58020,"date":"2015-08-04T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T07:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=58020"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:46:38","slug":"aquino-increases-judiciarys-allocation-in-national-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/04\/aquino-increases-judiciarys-allocation-in-national-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquino increases Judiciary\u2019s allocation in national budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_58021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58021\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11822288_1414650851900991_4522081431992247917_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58021\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11822288_1414650851900991_4522081431992247917_n.jpg\" alt=\"President Noynoy Aquino delivering a speech at the Bureau of Internal Revenue's 111th anniversary. (Photo from Aquino's official Facebook page)\" width=\"960\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11822288_1414650851900991_4522081431992247917_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11822288_1414650851900991_4522081431992247917_n-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Noynoy Aquino delivering a speech at the Bureau of Internal Revenue&#8217;s 111th anniversary.<br \/>(Photo from Aquino&#8217;s official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/presidentnoy\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 In the proposed 2016 national budget, President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III allotted P26.7 billion to the Judiciary to \u2018enable our judicial system to deliver equal justice for all.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy augmenting its resources, the Judiciary stands a better chance of reducing the case backlog of its courts and fast-track the resolution of cases,\u201d Aquino said in his budget message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of this budget is P2.3 billion to cover all operating expenditures of lower courts to enhance their independence and reduce their dependence on local governments,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy ozempic online <a href=\"https:\/\/dschnur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/ozempic.html\">https:\/\/dschnur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/ozempic.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the President also put forward the transfer of the Supreme Court to the Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Taguig. Should this be approved, P1.2 billion would be allocated for its land acquisition.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy symbicort inhaler online <a href=\"https:\/\/dschnur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/symbicort-inhaler.html\">https:\/\/dschnur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/symbicort-inhaler.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also committed P3.29 billion over four years for the construction of the new Supreme Court building, of which P122.7 million has been set aside in the 2016 budget to fund the detailed architectural and engineering design and project management needs of the project,\u201d Aquino said.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno, for her part, earlier disclosed that the Supreme Court eyed a 21,000-square-meter-lot in BGC.<\/p>\n<p>Should the proposed Judiciary budget be accepted by the Congess, next year\u2019s budget would be 22 percent more than this year\u2019s budget of only P12 billion.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy provigil online <a href=\"https:\/\/dschnur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/provigil.html\">https:\/\/dschnur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/provigil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier rifts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aquino and the Judiciary earlier had a falling out with the former\u2019s proposal to have the Judicial Development Fund (JDF) be remitted to the national treasury and the latter\u2019s declaration that the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The President then criticized the Supreme Court ruling for obstructing his economic programs supposedly intended to help poor Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>Several Supreme Court employees, on the other hand, slammed at the President for \u2018rampaging\u2019 the JDF which they claimed were substantial help to rank-and-file workers.<\/p>\n<p>But with Aquino\u2019s raise in the Judiciary\u2019s 2016 budget, all seemed well from both sides now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 In the proposed 2016 national budget, President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III allotted P26.7 billion to the Judiciary to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":58021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-58020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58020","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287594,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58020\/revisions\/287594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}