MANILA, Philippines ? Malacañang is willing to call a special session to approve the proposed P10 billion budget to augment the government?s calamity fund, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said Thursday.

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said Congress would go on break next week but without passing the proposal.

But since it was a budget measure, Enrile said, it should emanate from the House of Representatives before the Senate could act on it.

?There?s always a way to push that. Sabi mo nga kanina baka kakailanganin o patawag ng special session so there?s always a way,? Ermita said, responding to a question of a Senate reporter.

?Our procedure in lawmaking, not only budget, always has a way of trying to remedy certain situations when there is time lacking and therefore, as you said, the President may call for special a session,? he said.

?There is a way if indeed we want to push through with it,? he stressed.

Ermita agreed, however, that there was a need to approve the supplemental budget, pointing out the many infrastructures like highways, bridges, irrigation systems, crops destroyed by the recent calamities that struck the country.

?That is needed and I hope and I?m very sure that both houses of Congress can see the need for such a supplemental budget,? he said.