Irish pubs and restaurants could be able to reduce the social distancing limit to one metre when they reopen.
New draft guidelines from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) would see businesses allow customers inside for a maximum of 90 minutes, RTE reports.
Failte Ireland says it has received the advice which would also see customers need to pre-book their visits when bars open back up on June 29.
While businesses will be expected to serve a "substantial meal", costing at least €9.
The full complete guidance for pubs and restaurants will be published in the coming days.
It comes after the Dail heard that it could take up to three years for Ireland's economy to return to pre-crisis levels of activity.
Sebastian Barnes, acting chairman of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, said the health crisis will have a lasting effect on the economy.
He told the Oireachtas special committee on Covid-19 that there are "huge uncertainties" for the economy in Ireland.
Mr Barnes presented three different economic scenarios because of the "exceptional uncertainty" surrounding Covid-19 and the possible health and economic outcomes.
He added: "Activity falls sharply in all scenarios before recovering.
"The scenarios imply it would take two to three-and-a-half years to return to pre-crisis levels of activity.
"By contrast, the Irish economy took 11 years to recover after the financial crisis."
Presenting evidence on behalf of the council, which is an independent body, Mr Barnes said that broad phases of the crisis and recovery are relatively clear.
"As the economy exits lockdown, a sizeable stimulus would help the recovery," he said.
"However, some adjustments are likely to be needed down the line to get the debt ratio on a safe downward path again.
"To safeguard the funding of public services and supports in future, while addressing future challenges, the incoming government should set a credible path for a prudent fiscal policy and take steps to reinforce its budgetary framework, including meaningful debt ratio targets and more effective medium-term budgeting."
Fine Gael's Jennifer Carroll MacNeill pressed the council on its estimated economic recovery time frame.
Michael McMahon, a member of the council, said: "The key thing to think about when trying to assess what type of economic slowdown or recession we are experiencing now is to recognise the recession is itself a public health measure.
"Lockdown has been done with the objective of protecting public health. As a result, it is a different form of recession to ones we have seen in the past.
"The points we would stress about why this would be a recovery that is faster than the financial crisis is that Ireland went into this crisis, both in terms of household and corporate balance sheet, but also in terms of the fiscal position, in a much healthier place.
"How we recover this depends on things that are very hard to ascertain.
"At what rate do people decide they will be confident to go back to shopping in non-essential shops and at what rate will people engage with the entertainment industry, like pubs or restaurants?
"These behavioural responses will depend on lots of different things that are difficult to ascertain.
"With some fiscal stimulus in the recovery phase after the initial health impact has been mitigated, Ireland could be back in some two-and-a-half years to three years."
