Some 70,000 fixed-term workers will benefit under the Bill, many of them in the public sector whose conditions of employment will be improved, particularly in relation to pay and pension entitlements. I particularly refer to teachers and nurses, many of whom have been on fixed-term contracts for far too long. Members of these professions will now be in a position where a maximum of four years will apply to fixed-term contracts and, as a result of this legislation, they will then have to become permanent. This will be significant for those specific professions and others.