UPDATE: The cabinet has agreed to end the legal requirement to wear a mask from next Monday.
Earlier...
Senior Ministers will sign off on plans to make mask-wearing voluntary when they meet this morning.
At a meeting of Government party leaders last night it was decided to accept NPHET advice on mask-wearing in public settings.
This will apply in schools, shops and on public transport - but people will be advised to still wear masks in public transport settings.
It was agreed that the mandatory wearing of masks should end from next Monday.
Other physical distancing rules, such as pods in schools, are also expected to be lifted on that date, while the future of NPHET will also be discussed.
Cabinet will also consider the Institutional Burials Bill, legislation designed to set up an agency to oversee the exhumation of sites like Tuam where inappropriate burials took place, and the identification of remains.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin won't be at this morning's Cabinet meeting.
He's flying to Brussels to meet the new German chancellor Olaf Scholz.
