It’s less than a year since I wrote, in advance of Budget 2022, about the issues facing Irish start-up and scale-up technology companies and the work that Scale Ireland, as the representative organisation for the sector, was doing to highlight the best possible conditions and policies for these companies to thrive and succeed. Many of those issues still remain but, in that time, the world has changed dramatically. In September of last year, supply chain issues were already driving increased inflation, but to a modest 3.75 per cent compared with almost 9 per cent today. In February, Russia invaded Ukraine,…