A Fine Gael TD has slammed Sinn Féin for its "hypocritical" alternative budget and called on the party to establish its position on climate change.

Urging the party to clarify its stance, Offaly Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy said: "In their alternative budget, SF state that "there is an overwhelming need for the world to confront climate breakdown" yet they have opposed any change in carbon pricing.

"By opposing any change in carbon pricing, they have aligned themselves with far-leftist parties such as PBP/Solidarity who cynically oppose everything."

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Deputy Corcoran Kennedy, a member of the Oireachtas Climate Committee, added: "Sinn Féin have ignored: The report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action who worked for months to establish a broad cross-party consensus on a number of issues, including a recommendation in favour of increasing carbon to €80/t by 2030; The Chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council, Professor John Fitzgerald and 27 Nobel Prize winners who in a recent statement outlined that a massive body of evidence from across the world shows that carbon taxes are essential.

"Sinn Féin needs to stop with the hot air and get real about climate action. They need to tell us where they stand."