Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail)

I ask the Minister to clarify a matter. I was under the assumption that if one was stopped by a garda who asked one to produce one's driving licence, but one did not have it with one as sometimes happens, one could be charged with an offence. Section 2 suggests there is no flexibility.

If one fails to produce one's driving licence one has ten days to produce it. I understood that was the custom and practice. Is it technically an offence to fail to produce a driving licence when a garda stops one and demands to see it for which one could be charged and prosecuted? What is the current position?