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IMPACT publishes lobbying details
IMPACT publishes lobbying details
by Niall Shanahan
 

IMPACT has submitted its returns to the Lobby Register covering the period from 1st January to 30th April 2017. Lobbying organisations are required to publish their returns no later than 21 days after the end of the relevant reporting period.

IMPACT has made 13 returns for the most recent reporting period. In 2016, the first full year of the online register, the union made a total of 57 submissions.

The latest lobbying returns submitted by IMPACT cover the following matters:

Failure to submit a return of lobbying activities carried out during period by the deadline is a contravention of the Regulation of Lobbying Act.

The Regulation of Lobbying Act was signed into law in 2015.

The purpose of the Act is to provide for a web-based Register of Lobbying  to make information available to the public on the identity of those communicating with designated public officials on specific policy, legislative matters or prospective decisions.

New enforcement provisions under the act came into effect on 1st January this year. These provisions give the Standards in Public Office Commission the authority to investigate and prosecute contraventions of the Act and to levy fixed payment notices for late filing of lobbying returns.

IMPACT members who undertake lobbying activity are not required to make a return unless they are lobbying under instruction from their union, such as in the event of a ‘grassroots’ campaign. All lobbying activity undertaken by IMPACT staff is reportable, apart from activity classified as ‘excepted communications’ under the legislation.

For more details about the legislation and the register, visit lobbying.ie.

See also: IMPACT trade union profile on Lobbying.ie.

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