Hiniling ni Senator Panfilo Lacson na baguhin na ang nilalaman ng Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010.
Ayon kay Lacson, dapat muling pag-aralan ang nabanggit na batas na naging batayan ng gobyerno sa paglaban sa mga kalamidad na tumama sa bansa limang taon matapos itong simulang ipatupad noong Marso 2010 upang maging mas epektibo.
Batay sa resolusyon ni Lacson, pangungunahan ng Congressional Oversight Committee on the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 ang pagrerepaso sa batas.
“While many natural and manmade calamities had hit the country since the act was passed – including the Zamboanga crisis in September 2013 and the Bohol earthquake in October 2013, it was Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) that tested the legal and institutional capabilities of both the national and local governments as established by the Act and exposed the disconnect between the provisions of the Act and the realities and dynamics on the grounds,” ani Lacson.
