Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Those in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2). The court has to be satisfied that there is good and sufficient reason for allowing the applicant to do so. Again, this puts it in the hands of the court. Paragraph (b) reads: "the circumstances that resulted in the failure to include the matter to which the amendment relates ... were outside the control of ... the applicant". Again, that type of situation would be the reason for an amendment to be made in this particular case.