Some years ago when the game went professional the Connacht branch, with other branches, reached an agreement with the IRFU at senior management level that it would meet a number of standards required in the professional era. A regular ten to 12 players on the Connacht team are home grown and do not come from outside the province. That is a startling statistic when compared with the other provinces, many of which have a greater dependency on players from outside. Many of the Connacht players have come up through the system. A huge benefit of professionalisation has been the significant investment in youth rugby and a number of those players have come through to senior level. I understand ten of the 40 players on the youth squad come from Connacht. In my day, no more than six or seven schools were involved in Connacht rugby, whereas 12 competed at senior cup level last year. That is a major advance.