Taoiseach Micheal Martin has said he is confident a "pragmatic solution" can be found to the ongoing controversy over a proposed turf ban.
It comes as Green Party politicians have hit back at critics of plans to curtail the commercial sale of turf, calling it a "life-saving" measure.
The leader of the Green Party said on Tuesday that the proposal, which has attracted the ire of some backbench TDs and rural communities, was "workable".
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Speaking on his way into Cabinet, Eamon Ryan said: "It is a workable, proper good legal approach.
"Ignoring air pollution, ignoring the fact it is killing our people, I don't think that's an option or solution."
Some Fine Gael and Fianna Fail TDs have united to attack the proposal, which they say represents an attack on rural communities for whom turf remains a crucial and affordable fuel source.
The row has posed a challenge to the stability of the three-party coalition government, with the Green Party leader seeking to reassure his Cabinet and coalition colleagues that the plan is proportionate and will not amount to a full-scale ban.
Sinn Fein is set to introduce a motion in the Dail condemning the plan and calling for it to be scrapped.
Also speaking on his way to Cabinet on Tuesday morning, the Taoiseach said Eamon Ryan is set to meet with members of the Fianna Fail parliamentary party.
Mr Martin said smoky coal is "the villain" when it comes to a potential fuel ban, and that there are no proposals to stop rural households from burning their own turf.
"We should all remember back in the 1990s, I can recall walking through the streets of Dublin in a very polluted city environment when you had smoky coal burning all over the place," he said.
"People died, and Mary Harney brought in legislation at the time to ban smoky coal in Dublin and other cities and it had a massive transformative impact on the quality of the air and it saved many lives.
"Ultimately smoky coal is the villain here, turf is dying out as a base of fuel and we want to be pragmatic about this and we want to get a solution to the fact that many people in rural Ireland use turf from bogs that they have or share with neighbours.
"It's not proposed to ban that so I think a pragmatic solution can be found.
"Essentially any measures now will affect the winter after next."
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