Can you explain your comment that the taxpayer "gives alibis to drug dealers"?
Why should someone have to speak English in order to get state money?
I mean that drug dealers, when questioned about heir lifestyle, are able to prove an income and how they "won some money on the horses", etc..
Being unable to speak Eglish restricts/prevents a person that is availing of
Jobeeker's payments to few (if any) jobs and therefore they are not entitled to such payments, IMO.
This from the FOI guidelines:
"There are many difficulties faced by a person seeking employment outside their own country, e.g. unfamiliarity with local employment opportunities, differences in required educational and training standards and in most
cases the need to have a good command of a second language.
Persons coming to Ireland to seek employment would need to have a good command of English i.e. be able to hold a conversation and fill in an application form for a job or a social welfare payment, e.g. Jobseeker's Benefit or Assistance without the aid of an interpreter.
Accordingly,
special care should be taken to ensure that all EEA Nationals have genuinely come to Ireland with the intention of seeking employment as opposed to other motives such as travel, cultural, educational (improvement of English language skills), or to avail of social welfare payments not available in their state of origin or even where unemployment payments are paid at a higher rate in Ireland."