Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal West, Sinn Fein)
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1372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first-year and full-year cost of increasing the maximum rate of the additional needs payment for additional diet expenses by €1. [45798/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The Diet Supplement, administered under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme, is payable to qualifying persons, in receipt of the supplement prior to February 2014, who have been prescribed a special diet because of a specified medical condition.

There are currently 743 people in receipt of Diet Supplement. Based on the current number of recipients, the first year/full year cost of increasing the maximum rate by €1 would be €38,636.