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Wed 11 Nov 2007Orders kept hospitals cleaner, say leadersTaoiseach Bertie Ahern agreed with Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny that hospitals were cleaner when religious orders were in charge.Mr Kenny said the "difference between the days of matrons running hospitals, and the hospital management system that exists now, is that standards of hygiene in many hospitals now are lower and this is reflected in the findings of the third report today".