The Health Service Executive says it is confident that GPs will start vaccinating at-risk patients against human swine flu from 19 October.
It follows a meeting today between the executive and the Irish Medical Organisation which had expressed concern about the lack of consultation over the planned campaign.
Dr Ronan Boland GP leader of the IMO said the talks had been frank but positive and the organisation was awaiting written clarification this afternoon of the points raised at today's meeting.
He said GPs wanted to participate in the vaccination programme.
The meeting follows claims by doctors that there has been a lack of consultation over the detail of the scheme, which could involve 400,000 patients.
The IMO had also raised concerns about legal indemnity for doctors.
Last week, the HSE wrote to all GPs asking them to participate in vaccinating at-risk patients aged six months to 65 years old against human swine flu.
GPs are being offered €10 for each of the two doses that have to be administered.
Around 130,000 doses of an approved vaccine, Pandemerix, are due to arrive in Ireland by the weekend.
The HSE urged doctors to support this once-off public health measure.
Child dies of swine flu in NI
A child with swine flu died in Northern Ireland yesterday, according to the NI Health Department.
The exact cause of the child's death is not yet known.
Northern Ireland Health Minister Michael McGimpsey expressed his deepest sympathy to the family.
He said incidents of swine flu in Northern Ireland were continuing to rise and further increases in cases must be expected in the weeks ahead.
Mr McGimpsey said swine flu remained a major public health threat but he believed they were well prepared. He said officials had been planning for a pandemic for some time.
It was the third death from swine flu in Northern Ireland. A baby died last month but a pre-existing heart condition was determined as the cause of death. In August, the mother of two young children died. She had been fighting cancer for five years.
A British soldier originally from Co Derry, who was based in the south of England, also contracted the virus and died in Surrey at the end of July.
