There is much debate at present about the IRFU and its plans for a national stadium in the future. I do not doubt that the Government will be called on to provide handsome sums of taxpayers' money to this project. We should do the same for all sports. The IRFU proposal for Connacht is disgraceful and is an abandonment of the game. The idea that the professional team would be taken away is a bad headline for young people to read. As Senator Ulick Burke said, many second level schools in Connacht have developed the game.