It's widely expected the country's top public health doctors will today recommend moving to phase two of lifting Covid-19 restrictions next Monday.
The National Public Health Emergency Team meets this morning to discuss the roadmap for reopening the country, along with whether playgrounds can reopen and summer camps can go ahead earlier than planned.
Some special education classes may also be able to resume.
A further three people with Covid-19 have died, bringing the death toll to 1,659, while 47 new cases have been detected.
Chief medical officer Tony Holohan is confident phase two will come into effect next week.
"Our planning assumption has been that we'll get there, we don't know for certain but as yet in terms of the detailed data there's nothing suggesting to us that we won't be in a position to make that recommendation.
"I think we need to allow the remaining days of the week to elapse - week three in a three week cycle is the important week, and we're keeping a very close eye on the figures."
