Ireland's prime minister in waiting, Enda Kenny, has confirmed that the country's Fine Gael and Labour parties have concluded an agreement on setting up a coalition.
Fine Gael, the winner of Ireland's general elections last week, had been in talks since Monday with the second-placed Labor.
Labor will ask both its party members and lawmakers to approve the programme for government later on Sunday.
While law makers from Fine Gael were also set to meet to approve the deal. The two parties took divergent views during the campaign on the scale of public sector cutbacks, the split between taxes and spending cuts, and the time frame for cutting the budget deficit to an EU limit of 3 percent of GDP.
Party leaders say the deal reached on these points and finer details will be made known when the programme for government is published later on Sunday.
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