Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent)
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210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department declared only 1,000 submissions were received as part of the public consultation process on the role of religion in school admissions; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that over 1,600 further submissions were sent via email raising the number of submissions sent to his Department to at least 2,600 in total; if he has explored the possibility that online emails may have been caught up by his Department's email spam filter; if same can be rectified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29682/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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Officials in my Department have confirmed that 923 written submissions were received to the dedicated email address admissions_religion@education.gov.iethat was set up to facilitate receipt of written submissions to the Consultation on the role of denominational religion in the school admissions process and possible approaches for making changes.

I am not aware of any further submissions and I can confirm that my Department's email filter did not detect any submissions that were not released.