SEN. Loren Legarda on Sunday gave assurances to the three agencies given a budget of P1,000 for 2018 by the House of Representatives that they will have sufficient funding to carry out their mandates.

Legarda, who heads the Senate finance committee, said as far her panel is concerned, the proposed budgets of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) have already been approved.

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