The independent report into deaths at the Leas Cross nursing home in north Dublin is expected to be finally published on Friday, according to the Health Service Executive.
The report was completed by Prof Des O'Neill some five months ago but the HSE has claimed it was unable, on legal advice, to publish it until those clearly identifiable in it had been given time to respond to criticisms made of them in the report.
Their responses are now to be appended to the published report.
It is understood individuals have not been named in the report.
However, they may be named in the submissions they have now made to the HSE in response to comments made about them in the report.
Prof O'Neill is already on record as saying his findings were grave, disturbing, system-wide and in need of urgent attention.
And when part of his report was read into the Dáil record by Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny last month, he told TDs that overall the findings were consistent with "institutional abuse".
Leas Cross, a private nursing home in Swords, closed in August 2005 after the HSE withdrew public patients from it following a Prime Time Investigates TV programme on the treatment of a number of patients there.
Following the programme Prof O'Neill, a consultant geriatrician at Dublin's Tallaght Hospital, was asked to review some 95 deaths at the home or immediately after transfer to hospital from the home between 2002 and 2005.
He found none of the deaths was preventable but that elderly patients transferred from hospitals to Leas Cross survived for significantly shorter periods than those who went to other nursing homes.
Mr Kenny told the Dáil there were deficiencies in pressure sore prevention and cure at the home and in the management of swallowing disorders.
"An alarming number of people were nursed in Buxton chairs and there were damning deficiencies in expertise, nurse numbers and nursing infrastructure. There was a systematic failure by Government, health boards and professional bodies to provide the appropriate quality of care for older people. Overall, the findings are consistent with institutional abuse on the Government's watch," he said.
Prof O'Neill furnished his report to the HSE in May. The HSE then asked him to hear submissions from people mentioned in it but he refused, saying this would involve going outside his terms of reference and would require judicial training.
The HSE admitted the terms of reference it set for Prof O'Neill should have been different and it was forced to reconsider how to go about publishing the report.