Professor Niamh Hardiman:

The problem in a small society is where one stops. If I accidentally bump into the Minister for Finance at Charles de Gaulle Airport, do I report that? Where does one stop? Trying to pin down every single instance of contact in rules, trying to enforce things and reporting on everything is the high road to disaster in terms of monitoring and respect for the rules. That is probably not the way to go but there may be ways of requiring more vigorous compliance with structured and unstructured engagements that I do not know about. I am not in a position to comment how lobbying legislation is to be implemented.