House eyes bigger IRA for local govts in Cha-cha

Bigger internal revenue allotments (IRA) for local government units are part of the provisions a House panel is considering in its revised version of proposed amendments to the Constitution.

Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, chairman of the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments, said the panel had deferred a committee report, which was supposed to be scheduled for deliberation at the plenary level, to hear the proposed amendments from the administration’s Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on Federalism and Constitutional Reforms that had not been included in the original committee report. A resolution was earlier approved in an executive session in December 2019.