 That was in January 1982, when Jim Kemmy withdrew support for the minority Government of the 22nd Dáil by opposing a budget resolution to introduce VAT on children's shoes.In the revolutionary Second Dáil of the self-proclaimed Irish Republic, the 7 January 1922 vote to approve the Anglo-Irish Treaty resulted in a defeat for Éamon de Valera, who took it as loss of confidence and resigned as President of Dáil Éireann; the Dáil was not dissolved and the pro-Treaty majority voted Arthur Griffith as the new President.Whereas in some jurisdictions the convention is for a prime minister who has lost confidence or supply to call an election, in Ireland he may be unable to do so, because the post-1937 Constitution gives the President discretion to refuse to dissolve the Dáil when requested by a Taoiseach who has lost confidence.