If you have a teenage boy in the house, ask any parent, you can’t fill them, you have to pack them full of food,” she explained. “Children – especially teenage children – have greater nutritional costs, like having another adult in the house. Sinead Keegan, project co-ordinator at Healthy Food For All, said her charity would be asking the Minister to be “conscious of the cost of healthy diet for people living on a low income”. A number of NGOs attended a pre-Budget forum yesterday to tell the Minister what they think should be prioritised in October. A CHARITY WORKING in the area of food poverty has asked the Minister for Social Protection to consider raising income supports for people with older children so they can afford to feed them healthy food and enough of it.
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