We included that so that the act would be complied with in full. If a person who occupies the office is replaced, there is no justification for replacing that person with someone who is not bilingual. If we accept the principle of the act, we can solve the problem of the 10 agents of Parliament, that is to say the 8 agents and the other 2. My colleague Mr. Chisu may say that those two persons are not agents of Parliament, since we are talking about the Senate, but that is what the bill states. The government wants to strike that, but that will result in ambiguity.
Your government may have no intention of toying with that, but other governments may want to do so.
How long is the interim period: six months, a year, two years?