Ireland’s Budget 2016 is due to be announced on 13 Oct 2015 and the focus of the governing coalition is to win the next Irish general election that has to be held by 9 April 2016 — the Government has to call an election within 25 days (excludes St Patrick’s Day, bank holidays and Sundays) of the fifth anniversary of the first sitting of the 31st Dáil on 9 March 2011. Easter Sunday in 2016 will fall on 27 March, the day the Government intends to commemorate the 1916 Rising, which it would also hope would burnish its halo.