The Irish government is to disclose later how Catholic religious orders propose to settle the cash shortfall in clerical child sex abuse claims.
The government wants the religious orders to pay 50% of the state's 1.36bn euros (£1.2m) compensation bill.
Education Minister Ruairi Quinn is expected to make a statement later.
He has admitted he is not confident that the religious orders named in the Ryan Report into clerical child sex abuse could pay the 680m euro bill.
In 2002, a deal brokered by the Irish government of the time, saw the orders involved awarded indemnity against all legal claims by institutional abuse victims if they paid 120m euros (£107m) in cash and property.
The government estimated there would be 2,000 claimants. However, there were more than 14,000 and the state.
Seven years later came the shocking disclosures in the Ryan Report. The public backlash resulted in the orders raising their offer.
This year, the new minister said the state could not pay the bulk of the bill and the orders must pay 50%.
In April, the orders were asked to hand over title to property worth up to 200m euros (£179m).
The Irish public have been warned that there could be cuts in other areas of their economy if the religious orders do not pay what they owe.
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