IT bosses to report on challenges to business.

SENIOR management from some of the world’s top IT companies are drawing up a report for Research and Innovation Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.

The Commissioner met representatives from Google, Microsoft, Bell, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Boston Scientific and the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, all with operations in Ireland.

John Herlihy, Irish-based Google vice-president, said after the meeting that they have committed to identify the challenges to setting up and expanding business in the EU.