Tanaiste Leo Varadkar has said that it will be at least May until hairdressers reopen again.
Mr Varadkar warned that restrictions around retail and other personal services will likely remain into May as he said that outdoor activities were likely the first things to be permitted beyond April 5.
Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast, the Tanaiste insisted that the Government was still adapting a slow approach to reopening.
"You'd be talking May at the earliest. I don't want to be accused of raising false hopes," he said.
"I think Professor Philip Nolan described it very well that it will be outdoor things that are open before indoor things.
Mr Varadkar added the likes of shops and personal services such as hairdressers will be open before hospitality.
"The priority at the moment is to get schools open."
Mr Varadkar added outdoor sports training was one of the things that is "open for consideration" from April 5.
He said: "We'd love to allow people to meet up outdoors and particularly do some training outdoors but there might have to be rules around the level of contact.
"We just don't want to move too fast and then end up falling backwards. We all the experience of December and January and nobody wants that to occur again. So it is going to be a step by step slow reopening."
Mr Varadkar added, however, that "the message was very clear" that the Government would not be easing any restrictions before April 5.
The Tanaiste added: "There were six other suggestions of things that could be eased last night from golf to church services. It does create a whole thing called anticipatory behaviour and it sends out a message that things are fine now.
"And it's human nature to do a bit more than we're allowed and that's how we can end up on the wrong track again and we're just not willing to risk that."
When asked if people already vaccinated will be allowed more freedoms now they have the jab, Mr Varadkar said that signs from other countries were encouraging but added Ireland would not be taking that approach as vaccination levels remain too low currently.
He said: "The CDC in the United States, which is one of the world's most respected public health bodies, is now saying people who are vaccinated can meet up without masks.
"That's really encouraging. If that works out and they don't run into unforeseen problems there then that is the kind of thing you would then expect other countries to do.
"But for now the guidance from NPHET and the European Centre for Disease Control is that's too high risk to take at the moment."
