DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s data watchdog expects to consult fellow EU regulators in April on its investigation into Facebook’s data transfers, moving closer to a decision that could hammer transatlantic business if it bans data flows from the EU to the United States. Europe’s highest court ruled in 2020 that an EU-U.S. data transfer agreement was invalid, citing surveillance concerns. That promoted Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) to issue a provisional order that the mechanism Facebook uses to transfer data from European Union users to the United States “cannot in practice be used…