Dunne is a chartered engineer currently working as the safety and environment manager and deputy quality manager with Air Tanker Services Ltd .
A release from the office of Attorney General Anand Ramlogan Tuesday said Ramlogan expects to have Dunne's report ready to be presented to cabinet next week.
And it urged both the CAL board and the airline's line minister, Jack Warner, not to make further comments on the issue until the report goes to cabinet.
"The Attorney General has sought the cooperation of both Minister Warner and the CAL board members so that their public statements do not compromise and undermine the integrity of the process," the release said.
The release added that when the report is completed, "The Attorney General will then advise Cabinet in light of the important and contentious corporate and procedural issues raised.
"Public comment on this matter is, at this point in time, therefore premature and purely speculative. It can also be perceived as prejudicial to the process," the release stated.
Dunne's investigations will not be affected by the previous public statements made by Warner and the board, the release added.
"The Attorney General wishes to re-assure the population that the advice that will be tendered will be unbiased and independent. The process will not be compromised by the public utterances of the parties to the dispute but based on the facts, and what is in the best interest of CAL and the public."
The chairman of CAL, George Nicholas, the Works and Transport Minister are at loggerheads over the award of a US$200 million contract to ATR for the purchase of nine turbo-prop aircraft to be delivered next year.
The deal was approved by cabinet in September.
The board has expressed concerns about safety of the planes, saying it wants to be careful it does not commit CAL to expenditure of over a billion dollars with properly checking concerns raised.
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