In a week when the state budget was handed down, Queensland Parliament has also been forced to look at whether a Twitter comment directed at Opposition MP Jarrod Bleijie should be deleted.

Last month, advertising consultant Dee Madigan commented with a retweet of a video snippet of parliamentary footage showing Mr Bleijie tearing up sheets of paper.

Her retweet included the comment: "Your taxes at work. A toddler tantrum for @JarrodBleijieMP."

Ms Madigan refused to delete the retweet, despite repeated requests from the Opposition, the Clerk of Parliament and the Speaker's office.

As a result, Ms Madigan has been referred to Parliament's ethics committee.

Dee Madigan refused to delete her retweet. ( ABC News )

This is because State Parliament's terms and conditions stipulate that broadcast material "must only be used for the purposes of fair and accurate reports of proceedings" and must not be used for political advertising, satire or ridicule and commercial sponsorship.

To avoid breaching those same rules, the ABC cannot republish the tweet — sorry about that.

Ms Madigan has worked on both state and federal election campaigns for the Labor Party, has been a panellist on the ABC's Gruen program and is a regular media commentator.

She said she could not believe the request to delete the tweet.

"It's surprising that they'd go this far," she said.

"On Facebook this week, the Queensland Premier 'Facebook-lived' direct parliamentary footage and so did Deb Freckington, and then people share that and they comment on it — that's how it works on social media."

Speaker Curtis Pitt today told Parliament it would be up to the ethics committee to decide if the tweet was in breach of Parliament's broadcasting rules.

He said the rules did not allow broadcast media to "be used for satire or ridicule".

"To date, Ms Madigan has refused to remove this material," he said.

"Given the material has not been removed, I have decided the matter does warrant further attention from the House via the ethics committee."

"I therefore refer the matter to the ethics committee for further examination.

"I wish to emphasise that my role is not to determine whether there has been proven fault, a breach of privilege, but rather whether there are sufficient issues in play to warrant the further consideration of the House via the ethics committee."

Mr Bleijie said he would not comment while the matter was before the ethics committee.

Ms Madigan said she had no plans to delete the tweet.

"Absolutely not, I will not be deleting that tweet," she said.

"I think it's ridiculously petty and he clearly hasn't heard of the 'Streisand effect' — it's absurd … and I just won't stand for it.

"I mean, all the MPs tweet out the parliamentary footage of themselves and people share it and comment on it, it's standard practice."