asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations whether he proposes to ask the Government of Eire to assent to the alteration of the Royal Title consequential upon the change of status of India and Pakistan.

The Eire Government were informed in June last of the proposed alteration and indicated that it presented no difficulty so far as Eire was concerned.

Does that mean that Eire was consulted as a Dominion and had to give assent as a Dominion?

It means that when the Eire Government were consulted on that they said the change presented no difficulty to them. In other words, it assented in the change.

Can the Minister say in what capacity Eire was consulted—as a foreign Power or as a Dominion within the Commonwealth?

Naturally, as a member of the Commonwealth—a Government within the Commonwealth.