Amendment of the Report of the Select Committee on Local Government and Administration, dated 17 October 2006:
The report is amended by the insertion of the following addendum:
"That the following conditions be attached to the approval.
The employment contract of Mr A S Minty should be extended for a period of five years, reckoned from 1 November 2006.
The Department of Foreign Affairs should develop a coherent succession strategy/plan and present it to the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, within a period of six months, calculated from the date of approval of this application by Parliament.
The Department should include the implementation of the succession strategy/plan in their strategic plans.
The Department of Foreign Affairs should report annually on progress in the implementation of the succession strategy/plan".