The Dáil resumed work this week after its two-week Easter break.
A forthcoming jobs initiative, provisionally scheduled to be announced on May 10, was the first item of business discussed at Tuesday's cabinet meeting chaired by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
The range of measures that the cabinet and Dáil will consider in the next few weeks is expected to include the scrapping of the controversial travel tax for air passengers which was introduced in the last government's October 2009 budget.
Originally set at €10, the levy was cut to €3 in the last budget. A commitment to scrap it, subject to a deal with airlines to reopen closed routes, was contained in the program for government agree to by coalition partners Fine Gael and Labour.
