Pre-tax profits at the country’s largest nursing home group, where two indebted Nama developers transferred ownership of the firm to their wives, increased by 58% in 2011 to €2.5m.

An independent report on Leas Cross nursing home will not be made public until those named in it have the right to reply, it emerged tonight.

An independent review of all deaths at the Leas Cross nursing home since 2002 has been initiated.