The Cabinet will meet at 9.30am on Wednesday morning to discuss a draft text on Britain's exit from the European Union.

It comes as the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Tánaiste Simon Coveney and European Affairs Minister Helen McEntee are examining the draft text from EU and UK negotiating teams.

Mr Varadkar has briefed his Cabinet colleagues.

An Irish Government spokesperson has said they want to allow the British government time and space to consider the deal.

He said there will not be any further comment until ministers are briefed on Wednesday morning, and the Dáil is briefed just before lunchtime.

While British ministers are meeting at Downing Street on Tuesday night to run through the text.

Reports say the agreement has been reached at a "technical level", but British Prime Minister Theresa May will still need to win over her top team.

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Downing Street said in a statement: "Cabinet will meet at 2.00pm tomorrow to consider the draft agreement the negotiating teams have reached in Brussels, and to decide on next steps.

"Cabinet ministers have been invited to read documentation ahead of that meeting."

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar | File photo

Border deal

It was earlier reported that an agreement was reached between EU and UK negotiators on a text that deals with the Irish border.

It was agreed on Monday night, before being sent to Downing Street in London.

According to sources, there will be one backstop to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.

It will be in the form of a temporary UK-wide customs agreement, with specific provisions for the North that go deeper on the issue of customs and alignment than for the rest of the UK.

It is understood the text has an agreed review mechanism.

Foster: "That is not acceptable"

While in a statement on Tuesday night, the leader of Northern Ireland's DUP - which props up Mrs May's Westminster government - Arlene Foster said: "We want a sensible deal which works for Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom and our neighbours in the Republic of Ireland.

"But our desire for a deal will not be superseded by a willingness to accept any deal."

She added: "An agreement which places new trade barriers between Northern Ireland and Great Britain will fundamentally undermine the constitutional and economic integrity of the United Kingdom. That is not acceptable.

"Over time, such a deal will weaken the union. No unionist prime minister could argue that such a deal is in the national interest."

DUP leader Arlene Foster speaks to the media outside St Patrick's Cathedral during a visit to Dublin | Image: Niall Carson/PA Wire/PA Images

She also said it would be "democratically unacceptable" for Northern Ireland trade rules to be set by Brussels.

"Northern Ireland would have no representation in Brussels and would be dependent on a Dublin government speaking up for our core industries."

But she warned: "Without a clean exit clause, the United Kingdom would be handcuffed to the European Union with Brussels holding the keys."

"I am heartened by friends of the union on both sides of the house and across the United Kingdom who have pledged to stand with the DUP in opposing a deal which weakens the union and hands control to Brussels rather than parliament."

British Prime Minister Theresa May | File photo

"Endgame"

It comes after Mrs May said negotiations over the UK's departure were "now in the endgame."

She told a banquet in London on Monday night that the Brexit process has been "immensely difficult."

She said negotiators would work hard through the night to make progress – with the Irish border the main sticking point.

"We are working extremely hard through the night to make progress on the remaining issues in the Withdrawal Agreement – which are significant," she said.

"Both sides want to reach an agreement but what we are negotiating is immensely difficult and I do not shy away from that."

She also pledged not to compromise on the result of the referendum – or to accept a deal at any cost.

Additional reporting: Sean Defoe