The phrase "a matter of consensus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation or decision that is agreed upon by a group of people.
Example: "The decision to move forward with the project was a matter of consensus among the team members."
Alternatives: "a point of agreement" or "a shared understanding".
But what is less a matter of consensus is how we should respond to the scandal.
With his documentary film, "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore made the undeniability of the crisis a matter of consensus; thanks largely to him, an environmental issue will be an electoral issue.
Prior will enter his 53rd Test as the best wicketkeeper-batsman in the world, a matter of consensus among his peers and anybody else who happens to be looking.
The slightly more philosophical method was to notice that people argued from, rather than to, their moral intuitions — an observation that may encourage us to accept that truth is at best a matter of consensus, not an observable fact of the world.
Real science, of course, is not a matter of "consensus," but of reason, with skepticism at its core.
It is a matter of consensus in the philosophy of intention that intending to do A entails wanting to do A, in the motivational sense for which the 'primitive sign of wanting is trying to get' (Anscombe 1963, p. 68).
He said that making the decision had been "relatively easy — a matter of general consensus".
Even what is to count as an act is not a matter of philosophical consensus.
Slavery's primary role in driving the Civil War is a matter of scholarly consensus, he said.
Our understanding of him became tinged with a certain apolitical schmaltz, and treating him with reverence and awe became a matter of national consensus.
Thus, Mr. Romney's electoral prospects appear to be a matter of near consensus among Republican primary voters, while true conservatism seems to be in the eye of the beholder.
