On Monday a complaint was lodged with the Parliamentary Ombudsman - by an association representing editors-in-chief and a total of 29 media companies - about the institution's relatively new practice of deleting visitor logs at the end of each day.
It is parliament's Chancellery Commission which has the final say about those logs, and during a meeting on Thursday the commission decided to continue the practice of destroying them at the end of every day, a practice which began around the beginning of this year.
After the meeting Parliament Speaker Maria Lohela told reporters that the commission did discuss the visitor logs as a possible registry of lobbyists but said no decision had yet been reached.
She said discussion and examination into the topic by officials would continue.
Lohela would not comment about what, exactly, needed to be looked into about the issue, nor did she give a timetable about when a decision would be made.
"I think it is good that we have a thorough discussion about the matter," Lohela said.
Two opposition parties to publish own lists
Meanwhile, the opposition Christian Democrats said they plan to publicly publish lists of people they meet. The Christian Democrat's parliamentary group chair Peter Östman said the lists would be posted on the party's website.
Another opposition party, the Greens, says it has decided that all of its MPs will individually start to publish the lobbyists they meet, too.
Previously all Greens' ministers and MPs have reported as a group about their meetings with lobbyists. Now, the party says, individual MPs will be responsible for listing such meetings publicly on their websites.
However, the Greens said that it does not plan to publish the names of private individuals with whom they meet.
In the press release, the party's chair Krista Mikkonen said lawmakers need to be able to meet with individuals involved in child protection cases, people from abroad in danger of persecution in their homelands or victims of violence without their names being seen in public.