The
DBM should find the legal basis to allow barangays which
were divided after the ppassage of the Local Government
Code to receive their full share of the IRA prior to the
division so it can continue helping out the newly0created
barangay out of it.
Instead of the LGUs looking for it, the governors threw
the ball to the DBM in finding the legal basis which should
allow the “mother barangays” to retain their
IRA share prior to the division in order to help out the
new barangays created after 1992, which according to the
mandate of the Local Government Code is not entitled to
IRA.
Tarlac Gov. Victor A. Yap made this proposal in order that
the “mother barangays” would be able to help
out the new barangay created out of it after the passage
of the Local Government Code.
It may be recalled that the Local Government Code provides
that barangays created after the effectivity of the law
are not entitled to receive any share of the IRA.
Gov. Tet Garcia of Bataan sought the opinion of DBM director
Carmencita Delantar on who was going to decide on the financial
sharing in the case of the newly-created barangays since
the IRA of the mother barangay should be good for the two
LGUs.
Davao del Norte Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario likewise wanted
to know why the province, city and municipality should suffer
in terms of IRA shares along with the newly-created barangays,
when the whole national budget is not affected. He explained
that the pie does not change, and it is just in the matter
of redistributing the shares of the LGUS.
With the creation of a new barangay, the IRA share of the
mother barangay consequently goes down because of the decrease
both of the population and the land area.
Gov. Dodo Cagas of Davao del Sur suggested for the DILG
to mediate relative to the sharing between the mother barangay
and the new barangay created out of it, then both accept
the decision. (AJS)
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