Reply to “Comment on: Symmetry and conserved quantities in f(R)-gravity: Mei vs. Noether approaches”

The Comment by A. Paliathanasis claims that our conclusions in [ 1 ] are “unreliable and inconsistent with the presented results” and purports to identify several errors. The Comment argues that the lapse function should be retained as an independent variable to reconstruct the full minisuperspace constraint system. We disagree with this approach for the scope of our work, as no explicit error is shown in our symmetry conditions, and our reduced canonical framework remains fully consistent.