From its headquarters at Miesian Plaza on Baggot Street Lower in the heart of Dublin 2, staff at the Department of Integration have spent the best part of the last three years figuring out how to find space for people fleeing war, persecution and other hardships. The system is creaking under severe strain as upwards of 100,000 people, including Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion, have sought protection here in the last three years.  As the department scrambles to build out its own accommodation, it has adopted what it describes as a “reactive, crisis-led approach”, using temporary-turned-long-term tented accommodation alongside the…

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