Wallace: How could penalty points incident reach Minister 'a year later'?

Mick Wallace has said he hopes the Standards in Public Office Commission will get to the bottom of the penalty points debacle.

Last night, the Justice Minister Alan Shatter addressed the Dáil in the wake of revelations he made that Deputy Wallace had evaded penalty points due to garda discretion.

Minister Shatter said he was given the information about Mr Wallace by Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan.

A fact Mick Wallace said is incredible.

He said: "There must be thousands of incidents every day.

"How in God's name could that incident reach the Garda Commissioner, reach the Minister for Justice, just when it suits us?

"A year later? I don’t understand it."