Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny told the Dail that doctors with no connection to Galway University Hospital would be appointed to replace the ones removed from the inquiry panel.
Each hospital will carry out its own investigation, with the DoH internal inquiry looking into how Savile was appointed in 1988 to lead a taskforce overseeing management at the high security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor.
In 1804, when an outbreak of yellow fever swept Gibraltar, ultimately causing almost 6, 000 deaths, Lord Nelson discharged Sir George from HMS Victory and appointed him superintendent of the territory's naval hospital.