SOME of the legislators' criticisms of housing and environmental issues were due to misconceptions, the Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands, Tony Eason, said.
He rejected accusations that limits, set out in the Joint Declaration, had constrained the supply of land and led to high property prices.
The Land Commission had granted more than the 50 hectares of land supply allowed every year under the Land Disposal Programme, Mr Eason said.
The commission had released 58.4 hectares in 1985, 164.3 hectares last year, and 127.8 hectares this year.
The land intended for public housing, private residential and commercial/ residential development was 12.6 hectares, 44.8 hectares and 46 hectares in 1985, 1992 and 1993 respectively.
''Once again convenient myths about the administration maintaining so-called high land prices and private sector-led housing policies have been trotted out without much regard to the plain facts,'' Mr Eason said.