Editing Trinity College Dublin (section)

====Council====
A Council, dating from 1874, oversees academic matters.<ref name=":2" /> All decisions of the Council require the approval of the Board, but if the decision in question does not require a new expenditure, the approval is normally formal, without debate. 

The council had a significant number of elected representatives from the start, and was also larger than the Board, which at that time continued to consist of the provost and seven Senior Fellows only.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} The council is the formal body which makes academic staff appointments, always, in practice on the recommendation of appointments panels which have themselves been appointed by the council.<ref name=":2" /> 

An illustration of the relationship between the Board and the council is a decision to create a new professorial chair.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} As this involves paying a salary, the initial decision to create the chair is made by the council, but the decision to make provision for the salary is made by the Board; consequently, the Board might overrule or defer a Council decision on grounds of cost.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}