There's been a significant change in who will receive copies of a much-anticipated review by P.E.I.'s auditor general into the province's failed e-gaming initiative — the public should now be guaranteed almost immediate access to Auditor General Jane MacAdam's findings, according to the office of the clerk of the legislative assembly.

The review was ordered 18 months ago by Premier Wade MacLauchlan. Its delivery could come at the end of this month.

"We are working on the report and it will be released by my office as soon as it is finalized," MacAdam told CBC News today via email.

"Based on further consultation with the clerk of the Legislative Assembly, a decision was made to provide the report to the Speaker who will table it."

A member of the clerk's office explained the document will be tabled intersessionally — that means even if the House isn't sitting, copies will be made available to MLAs and to the public.

That's a significant change in the auditor general's plans.

Unlike her annual report, which under legislation has to be tabled in the house, this is a special audit. Originally MacAdam had planned only to deliver copies to the provincial cabinet and to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, she said, because those bodies had asked her to conduct the review.

That means it would have been up to either cabinet or the committee to release the document to the public.

Depending on the auditor general's findings, the report could result in a resurgence of e-gaming as an issue if the report comes during the current byelection campaign in Summerside-Wilmot.

In December 2011, the P.E.I. government provided a loan worth $950,000 to the Mi'kmaq Confederacy of P.E.I.. That money was to finance a secret and ultimately unsuccessful bid by the province to become a regulator of online gambling.

Under the terms of the loan, the money was to be paid back from e-gaming revenues, which never materialized. The loan has not been paid back.

In April 2015, a company that had been involved in discussions with the province over e-gaming, Capital Markets Technologies, sued the P.E.I. government for millions of dollars. That lawsuit was dismissed in P.E.I. Supreme Court, but the company has said it will refile.