The Minister of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, Jesús Morera, showed this Thursday in Parliamentary Commission his "willingness" to modify the regulations that currently prevent the detachment of the hiring lists of the Canarian Health Service from the Public Employment Offer (OPE) in the next calls.
"It is the purpose of the President of the Government of the Canary Islands and mine, as Minister of Health, to change the link with decree 47/2010 for future OPE calls, but the task is not easy, since this decree affects several areas, therefore its debate is within the Public Function Board and, what is more important, the jurisdictional line regarding the weight of work experience goes against the claims of the Platform for a Fairer OPE, all of which has already been included in reports from the Advisory Council, the Deputy of the Common and several rulings of the Constitutional Court," said Morera.
The Minister assured that he "understands and respects" the demands of the Platform, which demands a greater weighting of professional experience in the scale of merits of the oppositions, that the criteria for the displacement of statutory personnel are not linked to the score obtained in the selection phase of the competition-opposition and the aforementioned detachment immediately.
The Minister of Health points out that, of the three demands raised by this organization, the first is "unfeasible, since the selection process is in its final phase", with the call for the published bases and all the participants registered, so the modification "would negatively affect another group of opponents".
For Morera, the second demand of the Platform would go "against an agreement of the Sectoral Table", however, "it could be saved with the agreement of all its members, but it would change the rules of a process already called".
A request that "clashes" with the decree
Regarding the third point, he stressed that it "clashes" with decree 74/2010, the one for hiring lists that links all calls for places that exist in Public Function, Education and Health, and to the calls themselves now underway in which it is stated that the preparation of the lists will be made in accordance with current regulations and the regulations in force at the time of publication is decree 74/2010, explain from the Ministry of Health.
Morera also recalled that the model of the current call, corresponding to the year 2007, was adjusted to the provisions of the general basic regulations (Law 7/2007, of April 12, of the Basic Statute of the Public Employee; to the basic regulations of the Statutory personnel, Law 55/2003, of December 16, of the Framework Statute of the statutory personnel of the health services; to Decree 123/1999, of June 17, on the selection of statutory personnel and the provision of basic places and jobs in the bodies providing health services of the Canarian Health Service and, subsequently, to Decree 74/2010 on hiring lists).
"My particular opinion is that this is a typical case of a dilemma between what is fair and what is legal, in my opinion in the health professions experience has a unique value in the evaluation of capacity, and that is why I am sensitive to the demands of this group and I say from the heart that I would have liked to find a viable possibility to fix this for this selection process, but I have not found it, not with the regulations we have in the Canary Islands," the Minister acknowledged. "Making a decision against the known legal system would be prevarication and I have not come to politics for that," he added.
Finally, the Minister of Health recalled that in the last meeting of the President of the Government of the Canary Islands with the platform, in which he was present, the President promised to give them another legal report, this time from the Deputy Minister of Legal Affairs of the Government of the Canary Islands and clarified: "I hope it will be in the next few days, and if he finds any legal loophole, I would be happy to apply it".
