The Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) Chair Andres Reyes Jr. said on Friday that ‘it will take some time’ for the commission to have rules and procedures for livestreaming its hearings because they are ‘undermanned’ with lawyers to process it.
Reyes said this after he said on Thursday that the commission would need to study and draft the rules of procedure and parameters before it goes on livestreaming its hearings.
‘I don’t know. It will take some time,’ Reyes noted when asked ‘how soon’ the ICI would have the livestreaming procedures.
According to the ICI chair, they have only 13 lawyers to handle the crafting of the rules-five originally from the ICI and eight from the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO).
‘We have to look at the procedures of all the courts, all the heading bodies. We have to remember we only have five lawyers. So, it’ll take some time,’ Reyes said.
‘We borrowed eight from the PAO. So, now we have 13. But we’re undermanned. But we will try to finish it,’ he added.
The ICI is currently conducting an investigation into the massive infrastructure anomalies across the country.