My Department has received an application for retrospective funding from St. Corban's school in Naas in County Kildare in respect of a capital project which was progressed without the agreement of my Department. The school building programme lists projects to be funded in any given year. A circular letter is currently being drafted in my Department's planning and building unit to advise schools that projects undertaken by schools, without the approval or agreement of my Department, will not be funded as to do so would reward queue jumping and undermine the openness and transparency of the system, which is the essential point of publishing the school building programme. A letter advising the school of this position will shortly issue from my Department.