Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin have met in Killarney, Co Kerry, to discuss a number of issues including their Confidence and Supply Agreement.
Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have issued statements confirming the talks took place last night and lasted for an hour.
The statements, with the same wording, said the two party leaders had "a constructive discussion on a range of issues".
The matters discussed included, Brexit, the forthcoming budget, the upcoming referendums and the Confidence and Supply arrangement.
The party leaders shared their views on all of these matters and "Leo Varadkar gave his views about the need to review and renew the Confidence and Supply arrangement".
"Micheál Martin reiterated his view that as per the Confidence and Supply arrangement, a review is provided for at the end of 2018."
The leaders have agreed to meet again in early September and both parties will also engage in the meantime on the forthcoming budget which is due in October.
Under the Confidence and Supply agreement, Fianna Fáil has agreed to support the Government for three budgets, the third of which takes place this autumn.
The long anticipated meeting between the Taoiseach and the Fianna Fáil leader has, it appears, passed off without incident.
They spoke for over an hour and 15 minutes at the Great Southern Hotel in Killarney last night.
Fittingly enough the location of the meeting was beside a train station but neither man seemed eager to depart from the unorthodox arrangement that politically binds them together.
Two carefully-honed and almost identical statements issued by both sides after the meeting suggest a temporary truce has been agreed.
Yes, the two party leaders remain entrenched in their differing views around when talks should begin about renewing the agreement that keeps the Government in place.
The Taoiseach wants that negotiation to start now, while Micheál Martin remains adamant it must be after the Budget.
The meeting came just hours after the Taoiseach had scaled the country's highest mountain, Carrauntoohil, but neither man has had to climb down from their positions just yet.
But the Killarney tête-à-tête was described as constructive and any tension around renewing the Confidence and Supply Agreement has been parked until early September.
That's when Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin have agreed to meet again.
It probably all means that an election this autumn becomes more unlikely as the focus now returns to beginning talks to shape October's Budget.
