Mick Wallace has said it was the Government's fault that he had to be driven from Dublin to Limerick to serve a prison sentence of just two hours.

Despite being jailed for 30 days for failing to pay the fine, the TD was granted temporary release and was free again within two hours.

He said today that there was no reason that Fine Gael and Labour couldn't change the rules to allow the sentence be served elsewhere.

The TD also said he no longer has to pay the €2,000 fine issued after an unlawful entry to Shannon Airport last year, because he has now been jailed.

However, he said he could not be blamed for the expenditure of Garda resources in bringing him from Dublin to Limerick.

"(Why) hasn’t the Department of Justice dealt with the fact that if someone gets arrested in the Limerick District, that he has to go to Limerick Prison even if his address is in Dublin?" he asked.

"This is a regulation going back to the 1930s..I mean this Government came in on a wave of promised reform."