Mr. John O'Brien:

It is very simple. We should use an administrative system and the first notice we send should say we have the relevant information, including a photograph of the driver. That would impel most of us - it would certainly impel me - to deal with the problem. That would identify the recidivists or multiple offenders. One should put a special operation in place over time to indicate the habitual offenders, who endanger themselves and the community, and deal with them by exceptions. There would, therefore, be a double product. However, it belongs in an administrative rather than a criminal law system. With 400,000 to 500,000 processes per year, the president of the District Court in 2007 said there were not enough judges or courts to handle it. The chief executive of the Courts Service said the mechanism did not exist to do so. One of the questions this morning was about the endorsement of driving licences with penalty points in court. The Courts Service was not part of the justice review group of 2005 that led to the privatisation bid that led to the role of GoSafe. It was not in on the system, so it looks like it did not have a formal input into how it developed.