Mr. David Sheahan:

In 2017, 23,309 people were prosecuted. That figure seems to be high but it would include, and I would have to go back and look at the figures individually for the Deputy, people who were too lazy to produce their driver licence and would produce it in the court and say they forgot to produce it. Bringing those prosecutions wastes a lot of court time and Garda time. That is why I made the point earlier on that it would be much better if these people had their driver licences at the side of the road, so that we can check them there and then without the necessity of having to wait for ten days for them to produce them.