Judiciary budget up in Aquino, CJ meet 09/15/2010

Judiciary budget up in Aquino, CJ meet
09/15/2010
President Aquino yesterday said he will ask for a meeting with Chief Justice Renato Corona to iron out the demands of the judges for salary increases which, he said, had already been granted the judiciary unlike other departments that “suffered cuts.”

In a chance interview after witnessing the change of command between retired Philippine National Police Chief Gen. Jesus Verzosa and newly appointed PNP chief Gen. Raul Bacalzo at Camp Crame in Quezon City, the Chief Executive echoed his trusted budget and Management Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad in fending off the ongoing grumbling of the judiciary given the slashes in its budget allocation as specified in the 2011 proposed national budget.

Aquino justified the appropriations that his government has made in its proposed P1.614-trillion budget as he insinuated that the claims made by the judiciary that it has not experienced an increase in its budget was wrong because its members have been getting adjustments in their allowances since 2007.

“First of all, the judicial budget, I understand, for 2011 has been increased by about five percent. So it’s not correct to say that it wasn’t increased — there are a lot of other departments that sufferedthe cut for that matter,” Aquino told reporters..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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