The Department of Education has agreed to give an insurance indemnity to a Co Kildare school to enable it to reopen to pupils on Monday.
The building was closed today with children staying at home.
RTÉ News understands that school management had concerns around liability should an accident occur.
The school has undergone remediation works over the past two months and further work is taking place.
The board of management, patron and Department of Education officials met this morning where it is understood the school was offered an indemnity by the department.
The board is to meet this evening to consider this offer and is due to meet parents at 8pm.
The school is situated on GAA-owned lands which are leased by the school through the Department of Education.
St Patrick's has been in temporary buildings since 2007 and another building to house it is going through the planning process.
It is among 285 schools on a department list of large-scale building projects that are being progressed through planning stages.
Celbridge school closure not necessary - minister
Earlier, Minister for Further and Higher Education James Lawless said he did not think it was necessary for the school - in his constituency - to close, describing it as regrettable.
He said there had been intensive engagement by the Department of Education with the school over several months.
"There is literally contractors on site.
"Works are agreed and ongoing. Work has been done in January and February already," Mr Lawless said.
Asked whether he believed the school had been wrong to close, the minister said that each individual school was entitled to make its own judgement.
But he said that there is not a lot more that the department could do in relation to the situation.
Speaking of today's engagement he said: "I think when everyone stands back and has a look at the works that are underway perhaps there can be some assurance drawn from that that will give the school the comfort that they need to continue business as normal".
Tánaiste Simon Harris said the meeting between the school and the Department of Education was held "to ensure that the school reopens as quickly as is possible".
He told the Dáil that "the department has received a number of emergency work applications from the school".
"This needs to be sorted," Mr Harris said, urging that St Patrick's reopen "as a matter of priority".
He was responding to Social Democrats TD for Kildare North, Aidan Farrelly, who said that "the Department of Education knew about the problems in the school as far back as last summer".
"The community of Celbridge needs capital. They need investment, and they need a plan in the short, medium and long term for those children and those parents who are at home."
'Very concerned about safety of our children' - parent
The mother of three pupils at St Patrick's said parents were "aware" for "a couple of months" that "something was going on with the school" mainly because of what their children were telling them.
Christine Reale said there were "stories of ceilings collapsing in the corridor, parts of the school being cornered off.
"I know my two younger ones had to reroute when they were exiting the school through another classroom with an external door rather than the main door.
"My youngest child is in first class and her classroom was closed for the month of December, they were in the PE hall, and there wasn't any communication.
"I just knew that my child was there because she kept saying, oh we're in the PE hall again today," Ms Reale told RTÉ's News at One.
She said that, at the school one day, a staff member told her that there had been a "bad smell" coming from the classroom and efforts were being made to identity the source.
"Then of course there was a report a couple of weeks ago and it highlighted an architectural report from last March, 2025, where the architect had highlighted, just on visual, serious concerns that he had about the safety of the school."
Ms Reale said the situation has been "brewing" and "evolving" over the last "month or so".
"It's gone to a point where we were getting very concerned about the safety of our children," she said, adding that the closure is "an unexpected curve ball that's been thrown at us".
