Ready, set, wait: With election speculation rampant, how soon could the Government call one? [Video]

LAST UPDATE | 16 hrs ago

STEPHEN DONNELLY SAYS next week, Simon Harris says ‘full term’, Mary Lou McDonald has been calling for one for most of the current Government’s lifetime.

Everyone has a theory on when the next general election will be, but some are more informed than others.

Legally, one has to be held before March 2025 when the current Government will reach its five year limit, but many have suspected that as soon as the Budget was out of the way it would be game on.

Most in Leinster House are working to the assumption that it will be called in two weeks, that means we would be looking at a window of between mid-November to very early December for a poll date.

At the end of the day though, as the person with the power to dissolve the Dáil, Taoiseach Simon Harris is the only one who knows and he is keeping …