Mr. John O'Brien:

Although theoretically the reply this morning is technically accurate, the real problem is the numbers involved. A judge on a particular day in a busy District Court may deal with a range of offences. If the licence is to be endorsed, it would have to happen in the District Court clerk's office, not in the judge's office, and that is a voluntary engagement. The Judge is not the enforcer of it. The judge can ask the person to give his or her licence to the court clerk. If that does not happen, one must embark on a further prosecution process, which is very inefficient.

My solution would be to stop the vast majority of them ever getting to that stage by having quite a different administrative process that allows one to interact in a different way, using, as I said, the photographic identification as a second stage process in identifying the person.