SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 20 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, Sebastián Franquis, has admitted this Wednesday that the work overload at the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the lack of competence of the AIReF delay the preparation of studies on the viability of the port of Fonsalía, in Guía de Isora.
In response to a question from the Nationalist Group in the parliamentary committee, he commented that in the case of the AIReF, which was commissioned to carry out a study on the economic costs, he has said that they no longer do this work, and with respect to the ULL, that to study the impact on mobility, they have been delayed because other reports on the volcanic crisis in La Palma were open.
For now, both the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Ulpgc), which analyzes the marine pollution of the project, and the Ministry itself, which will also provide its own report, are working.
Franquis has assured Beato that when all the reports are finished he will hand them over to the opposition and has denied that the Government wants to flee from the debate or buy time given that it is the administration that has wanted to “face the problem” because the island needs a port different from Los Cristianos to improve mobility with the ‘green islands’. “It does not meet the conditions,” he stressed.
The Government, in agreement with the Cabildo de Tenerife, is working on four alternatives: maintain the current situation, expand the port of Los Cristianos, use the port of Granadilla for inter-island traffic or build the port of Fonsalía.
Beato has criticized the “lack of transparency and management” of the regional government because six months after the assignment, it has “no file or reports”, and has wondered “how long do we have to keep waiting” to have a solution to mobility in Los Christians.
Along these lines, he pointed out that he has returned to the “starting box” that confirms that the Government wants to “waste time” while the port of Los Cristianos “continues to collapse”.
