Ma. Lourdes N. Tiquia
A lot of people tuned in during the oral arguments by the Executive Branch before the Supreme Court last 28 January 2014. The Executive was represented by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Butch Abad and the Solicitor General Francis Jardeleza. It was interesting to know the answers to several questions: Whose idea was DAP? Why was it put together? Who drafted it? What was the impact of enforcing DAP in the bureaucracy? When dod it start? These would have been easy to learn if we had a Freedom on Information Law or even just the Robredo-Disclosure Bill.