Tweeting your TD could be considered lobbying under new laws

Tweeting your issue to a TD? Be prepared for the paperwork.

The Standards in Public Office Commission has advised that, under new laws, contacting a public representative via Twitter may qualify as lobbying, and could require the tweeter to register the communication with the commission.

The advice comes in the commission’s 2015 Annual Report into the Regulation of Lobbying, the first such publication since lobbying laws were introduced last year.