The Taoiseach has moved to dampen speculation over the date of fresh elections to the Northern Assembly.
Efforts have intensified recently to lay the groundwork for an election to the Assembly, which was suspended last October amid allegations of spying by the IRA.
Mr Ahern has said the Government was trying, along with the British, to get "firm understandings that paramilitary activity and the other related aspects of that are no longer there, so we can live in a normal democracy".
He added: "I think everybody knows what is required but there is no package agreed at this stage or even tentatively agreed."
The Sinn Féin president, Mr Gerry Adams, who was visiting Omagh tonight, said: "I am very mindful that discussions between us, the two governments and the Ulster Unionist party are ongoing and sensitive.
"Sinn Féin is engaged in a serious effort to resolve the crisis in the political process.
"However ill informed speculation of imminent IRA gestures or breakthrough is not helpful nor is it accurate."
Speculation has been mounting over the past 24 hours that unionists and republicans have been working on a road map, which will enable assembly elections to go ahead in Northern Ireland.
Several sources have speculated about the possibility of a November 13 election.