Presenting the budget in Parliament, Minister Peter Siele said the P342,000,000 would be used to manage the District Multi-Sectoral Aids Committee activities (DMSAC), the Orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVC) and Home Based Care programmes, "the growth in Personnel Emoluments due to the three percent salary adjustment awarded in September and three percent annual incremental creep. Out of the 2012-13 recurrent budget provision he said P1,705,966,550, that is 39.92 percent, would be shared among eight departments and the District Administration and Tribal Administration institutions countrywide. "The remaining P2,567,863,590 will be Revenue Support Grant (RSG) to local authorities", he said.
Further he said local authorities would raise P333,016,260 to augment RSG from own sources of revenue, property rates and service levy in towns and cities, user fees and licences in district councils. Forty one percent of the budget goes to personnel emoluments, while the remaining 59 will be available for day to day activities of local authorities, including maintenance of public facilities and these include schools, roads, street lights, fleet maintenance, management and disposal of waste. Looking at corruption, the minister said he would ensure that the Corruption Prevention Committees in departments and local authorities are effective in dealing with corruption prevention and reporting progress on regular basis. "Anti-Corruption Unit of my ministry has opened various avenues through which reports of suspected acts of corruption are received from informers," he said adding that the intention is to ensure ultimately that corruption is rooted out of the system.
