The report naming some 200 individuals and companies with accounts in Ansbacher (Cayman) Ltd is to be be published at 9.30 a.m. on Saturday, the High Court directed yesterday.
The court had initially ordered publication at noon today but was told last Friday it would not be possible to meet that deadline because of the "mammoth" task involved in the preparation and printing of the 10,000-page document.
Mr Eoghan Fitzsimons SC, for the Director of Corporate Enforcement, told the President of the High Court, Mr Justice Finnegan, yesterday that the director had been advised that the printing and publication, assuming there were no further problems, would be completed by Friday.
The report would be available for distribution on Saturday morning, including to members of the public.
Mr Fitzsimons said the Government Publications Office did not normally open on Saturday. It would open next Saturday, however, to make the report available to those members of the public who wished to acquire it.
At the same time on Saturday, the report would be available from the Office of the Director of Corporate Affairs to clients of Ansbacher (Cayman) named in the report.
An advertisement would be placed in the newspapers on Friday stating where the report would be available, counsel added.
Mr Justice Finnegan made an order directing publication of the report at 9.30 a.m. on Saturday.
Mr Fitzsimons said there would be 1,000 disks and 400 hard copies of the report.
Mr John Gordon SC, for Ansbacher (Cayman) Ltd, said his client's undertaking to maintain the confidentiality of the report would continue until Saturday morning.
The judge said he was anxious there should not be any "piecemeal" disclosures.
In a statement following last Friday's High Court hearing, the Director of Corporate Enforcement, Mr Paul Appleby, said the printing assignment was a mammoth task.
He was advised it was the largest printing job ever undertaken by the printers, who had been engaged by the Government Supplies Agency, in such a tight time-frame.
The printed report will run to about 10,000 pages, will be in about 15 volumes, stand a metre high and weigh about 25kg.
The report was drawn up by inspectors appointed by the High Court after the affairs of Ansbacher (Cayman) Ltd came to public attention during the proceedings of the McCracken tribunal in 1997.
Much of the intervening period has been spent investigating the company's Irish business.