The Jobs Minister has confirmed 48 extra staff have been recruited to protect jobs and promote business in the wake of Brexit.
Funding of 2 point 75 million has been allocated to employ more staff in the IDA and Enterprise Ireland to focus on Brexit proofing economic activity.
There's concern in the region over the impact Brexit will have on business here.
The Irish examiner is reporting that Wexford TD Mick Wallace said the Government are living in 'cloud cuckoo land' if they think the unemployment rate of 18.7 percent in his county is being addressed.
Meanwhile the founder of a Waterford based Health Food company says his business was almost brought to the brink by Brexit.
Tramore company Chia Bia was established in 2009 and is one of Europe's largest suppliers of chia seed products.
The company has enjoyed steady growth in Ireland and across the EU since it's foundation, however that was thrown into jeopardy following the Brexit referendum vote in June of last year.
Barrie Rogers is co-founder of Chia Bia, he says the uncertainty created by the Brexit vote had a major impact on his business.
"We over the last two years made a conscious decision to invest heavily to try and grow that opportunity to try and grow that market.
We've done very well, it is 60% of our business and it's strong, it's very strong, the start of the year was going well.
The whole Brexit thing was very real for us very quickly within a few weeks it made it a very tough second half of last year.
It led to having to let some people go, we've cut our cloth and understand what we can and can't do.
The staff unfortunately some of them were put on short time coming up to Christmas, we've got over that now but the challenges that was faced by that vote was quite evident in Tramore."
Mr Rogers added, "We realise as well there'll still be an opportunity, they're about two years behind us, we were trying to invest ahead of the curve.
Maybe in 24 or 12 months from now the UK market will be there for picking and all the work we'd done won't go to waste.
But as a company in Tramore, an SME, you've emplyees, you've to find out where can you generate that income to push forward.
That's where I suppose our number one goal is to grow our Irish business, to get more awareness, drive consumers and try and explain more about what is Chia and how they can get the benefit."
