d) During the Budget Vote briefing in 2009, the Committee raised a concern that not enough focus was given the protocol and public diplomacy programme. DIRCO's report reflect a lot of activity being geared towards the protocol leg of the programme, for example, hosting conferences, speech writing, protocol services etc, and there is still limited public engagement in issues around the Department's mandate. DIRCO must submit a report on the strategy to be engaged in seeking to foster understanding of these goals through dialogue with individual citizens and other groups and institutions, to mainly inform the domestic audience on South Africa's foreign policy.