As Simon Harris took the mantle of taoiseach, he made a range of promises to the public and one of them was to help small businesses. From energy costs to labour to access to financing, Ireland’s SMEs have been contending with a slew of challenges in recent years. With his newly appointed enterprise minister in Peter Burke in tow, the fresh-faced leader said that the government will be “developing a number of practical measures” for SMEs. On a national level, Harris’s Government can thrash out numerous ways to help Irish businesses. At an EU level, too, there’s a raft of…