NPHET will consider whether children should wear masks in primary schools when it meets later this morning.
It comes as nearly one in every hundred children tested positive for Covid-19 last week.
5,375 contracted the virus, according to the latest Health Protection Surveillance Centre report - the highest infection rate of any age cohort.
But just 24 outbreaks have been liked to schools -- accounting for 139 cases.
The Junior Education Minister says government's "determined" to keep schools open.
Josepha Madigan says hundreds of millions of euro has been spent to try and prevent the virus spreading in the classroom:
Vaccines
The European Medicines Agency's meeting today to discuss authorising the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for children ages five to 11.
However it's unclear if a decision on its use will be made today.
The US began rolling out the vaccine for young children earlier this month, following approval.
