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Senator Joel Villanueva Chairman,
and by understanding it is established.
(Proverbs 24:3)
Mr. President, distinguished colleagues:
It is an honor to be given this privilege to sponsor a bill that has become a center of the nation s attention over the past couple of months, a piece of legislation that will chart the future of the global Filipino.
After five hearings, marathon hearings, of the Committee on Labor jointly with the Committees on Civil Service, Foreign Relations and Finance, two global OFW consultations, three long Technical Working Group meetings, and our Committees all members meeting yesterday morning, we are ready to report to this august chamber Senate Bill No. 2234 or the Department of Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act (DMWOFA) under Committee Report No. 264.
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DOFIL CLOSING REMARKS
In light of what has transpired today, we are all the more convinced now that we need to look into the OWWA Funds and to ensure that the government is adequately funded to withstand the massive job losses, displacements and continuing repatriation of Filipinos stranded abroad.
I couldn t agree more with Senator Drilon that this final issue is worth looking into and we thank him for bringing this to the fore. Our OFWs contribute to the OWWA Fund through their toil, tears and sweat but they don t know what their benefits are. So, kailangan talaga na pagtuunan natin ng pansin yoong information dissemination din.
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Published February 15, 2021, 6:02 PM
Despite the Duterte administration’s push for the creation of the Department of Overseas Filipinos (DOFIL), Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said on Monday that the government’s goal is for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to return home and remain in the Philippines.
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
“The policy of government still maintains to be, that while we are protecting our Filipinos overseas, ultimately, what we want to them to do is be productive domestically,” Nograles said at the resumption of the Senate labor committee’s hearing on the bills proposing the DOFIL on February 15.