Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party will today begin selling their programme for government to their party memberships.
The parliamentary parties of all three parties accepted the plan last night.
There was strong support for it among Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil representatives, with some dissenting voices.
Meanwhile, four members of the Green parliamentary party abstained on the vote, including negotiator Neasa Hourigan and Catherine Martin's husband Francis Noel Duffy.
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A new opinion poll shows a massive COVID bounce for Fine Gael.
Support for the party has soared 17 points to 37%, according to the Irish Times poll – making it the largest in the country if the election was run again.
Satisfaction rating for the outgoing government is up 51 points to 72% per cent, while Leo Varadkar's personal satisfaction rating has soared 45 points to 75%.
It's the opposite story for Fianna Fail on the other hand – it is down 9 points to just 14% support.
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Micheál Martin will become Taoiseach until 2022 if the programme for government is accepted.
Speaking last night, he said accepted the deal would be hard for some in his party to accept, and that he never thought he would be pushing to enter government with Fine Gael.
Meanwhile, the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar denied the programme for government is kicking cans down the road.
Green Party Deputy Leader Catherine Martin endorsed the plan, although four of her 12 parliamentary colleagues abstained.
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A German prosecutor claims to have 'concrete evidence' that Madeleine McCann is dead.
Hans Christian Wolters is investigating a German prisoner, known only as Christian B, in connection with the toddler's disappearance in Portugal in 2007.
In a letter to Madeleine's parents, he said he has no doubt their daughter is dead, but refused to tell them why.
He told them that revealing the evidence would jeopardise his investigation into the German suspect
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It is estimated ten thousand fewer new homes will be built this year because of the pandemic -- with little let-up in demand.
Projections for the year indicated up to 26-thousand units would be ready for sale.
The Banking and Payments Federation now says as few as 14-thousand could be finished, with capacity in the building sector down as much as 50%.
