00:00The committee level of the House of Representatives has approved the establishment of the Department of Disaster Resilience, which will fully assist in solving the problems if a law is passed.
00:14Yesterday, the House Committee on Government Reorganization and the Committee on Disaster Resilience discussed the benefits of the amendment and they passed it to their committee.
00:28According to Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey Sulceda, one of the members of the committee, if a law is passed, the DDR will be the principal government institution to have a safe, adaptive and disaster resilient communities in the country.
00:48As of now, the NDRRMC does not have the power to deal with calamities, so they are hoping that if there is a government that is capable of dealing with calamities, the government will do better.
01:04The congressmen also learned from the severe typhoon that was experienced in other parts of the Philippines a while ago, so their efforts to pass the DDR bill were in vain.
01:20Why do we need the DDR?
01:24First of all, when you approved the 10121, it was stated that there was a sunset provision.
01:30Aside from that, even if you have the 10121, Yolanda still happened.
01:37So, I thought about why Yolanda still happened and many died.
01:53activities and projects, including pre-disaster activities.
